It had been badged the Richard Lewis Humphrey in America. And then disappeared to Mexico and then turned back up into moth ball fleet. They bought this ship for 80,000 dollars. Salvaged most of the parts off of it. And this is actually footage of it being towed to the Cortes Bank beneath the Bay Bridge. So there's some interesting San Franciscoconnections to this story that has absolutely nothing to do with surfing at all. This was actually it being carried down. And you can see the concrete hull. And this is the tug
And it's a wonderful thing to write a lyric because you have this prompt. to salvage them somehow?
And I'm going to give you a little bit of background on it. "Time Salvager" is about the future. Humanity has colonized the solar system.
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. "Time Salvager" is being made into a movie, hopefully, yes.
know that because I was here myself 1 week ago. I saw the families who filled this place looking for a bargain. Lilia came here to salvage something from the ashes. "Books are saving us, and losing this is like losing our hearts." I'm sorry.
So, one, two, three-- Ooh, OK. We can salvage this.
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. So then "Time Salvager" is my fourth book.
The next question is, okay, so were most white people motivated to put on blue uniforms because they wanted to kill slavery? The answer to that is no, they were not. They were motivated to put on blue uniforms to salvage the Union, which they saw as a unique gift that the founding generation, based on the bloodshed in the American Revolution, had bequeathed the successive generations. And the two key parts of what the Union meant for them was, number one,
to be there? Is it fear? Because if you want to salvage your health and your mental well-being-- 60% of people suffer some sort of mental illness or episode
And I ran that for-- well, solidly for two years, taking passengers and a max of 700 feet. So I left to go do a salvage contract in Cuba. And then when I got dropped back off in Florida I realized this was becoming my career, and I was going to need a bigger boat.
But at the same time, the aggregate level investment in a productivity would be low. They're pretty hard to salvage .
I think my biggest question to you is what was the different processes about writing these books? Because like James from "Time Salvager" seems this kind of more mild, less-- I couldn't imagine him having that exchange with like a homeless person who's trying to rob him, as opposed to like 'The Lives of Tao" where--
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. But the majority of "Time Salvager" is actually where he just jumps back in time to moments after the present.
We're living on one of the San Juan islands on the floor, sleeping on the forest floor of a temperate rain forest. And my mother and stepfather have salvaged old wooden pallets from behind a dumpster at Thrift Foods. And we're sleeping on the forest floor on these pallets.
Today, with cheap grain, we have been able to abdicate this and plow up everything and confine the animals in houses where they neither salvage nor do anything except for eat erosive, petrol chemical dependent, ecologically debilitating, annuals that are subsidized by U.S. domestic policy to make cheap food in concentrated animal feeding operations that have no comparison
to one another a bunch of partygoers were sporting Bluetooth headsets into which they yelled loudly we listened to Jiro on a boom box and watched Teletubbies on a salvaged flat screen Katie was enjoying herself she danced to the songs and barely winked anyone happy to be talking again I tried to be sociable but I was shut down giving
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. So how much research did you into the-- speaking of "Time Salvagers," since that's what I read most recently.
know, inches thick of lead and lead itself has a radioactive isotope, lead 210, which decays, so in order to protect that, uh, sort of decaying lead from the detector they have another layer of lead which was salvaged from ships that had sunk off the coast of Europe in -- about 200 years ago. So most of that lead, that is old lead, the radioactive isotopes have decayed and they use that to shield the experiment from the new lead and so on and so forth. It's, uh, it's
Can we restore back some healthy quality of deep sleep? And in doing so, can we salvage aspects of learning and memory function? That is my real hope now.
draw it out and in real time you know we're hearing the story for the first time which I think people don't realize and the last Wednesday of every month is in Berkeley at the Freight and Salvage theater MH yep and I'm again thank you
So I begged her to quit her job and come down and salvage what we could out of this enterprise.
And enough excess food to just throw it away. So chickens were a garbage disposal, salvage operation in the homestead and the farm stead. That's what chickens were.
He turns away from the polyurethane lean-tos and tents and the salvage plywood huts nearby and the men who live in them standing around like bored
There was always some sign error or some subtle mistake and it couldn't be salvaged .
And is some of it destroyed, is it salvageable at the other newspapers, say in Lincoln, Pennsylvania or Amsterdam News in New York?
hide our screws we don't hide glue marks or that we use an old salvaged piece of glass that might be a little rough along
Not much, right? A few people salvage what they can.
So Mr. Heye was a part of that movement that we now call salvage anthropology and spent his fortune moving around not just the United
Even with a simple set up, it's possible to salvage about half the good bombs.
can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine as he has so often done in the
I am the author best known for the Tao series by Angry Robot Books, starting with "The Lives of Tao," "The Deaths of Tao," and "The Rebirths of Tao." And I had a new book come out just 10 days you go from Tor-Macmillan called "Time Salvager." So today I'm going to do a quick reading, just five minutes a book and do a quick scheme from "Lives of Tao" and a quick scene from "Time Salvager II."
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. Personally, I like the whole-- I like to say that "Time Salvager" is a love story.
We'd, you know, explore the woods, we'd build go-karts, we'd, you know, salvage old pieces of electronics and build you what we thought were
Yes. And also the second part, which made me think, at what point, if your decision is so bad that you have to salvage yourself out
But one of the motivations for writing your second book was that, perhaps, shortcuts are a way for humans to still salvage some of their power over machines.
Wherever there were things missing, like for example the little bronze heads there in the fountain, we would go to salvage yards around the outskirts of the city and source
And that's when you are, no matter what they-- at that point, no matter what they tried to do, you can't salvage that, because you have now become brain dead.
That's week one. Where my wife is actually pulling out nails from the wood that we salvage out of the building so that we could reuse it into the building.
Weiss: Uh, you know, I think we can make this work ethic we can salvage this I think working together we can do this I'm just putting it out there. So, okay but ah, you know and I
Jim, our handyman, had replaced our old splintered door with its peeling paint, and in its place was a door he'd salvaged from somewhere else.
So for instance, when Nevada went under, the banks of Nevada were salvaged immediately by the FDIC, not by the state government of Nevada
And I had a new book come out just 10 days you go from Tor-Macmillan called "Time Salvager." So today I'm going to do a quick reading, just five minutes a book and do a quick scheme from "Lives of Tao" and a quick scene from "Time Salvager II." So here we go.
But the lesson is, if you're gonna stab somebody, make sure you put yourself in a real situation where you actually might be able to. So the next thing I'm going to read for you is a scene from my new series, "Time Salvager." So "Time Salvager" came out July 7. And I'm going to give you a little bit of background on it.