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Fun Videos From November

Fun Videos

Fun Videos From November – I love these videos! Which is your favorite? Tell me, and I’ll give you a book! Click here.

Or, you can join my newsletter and get my free newsletter, with the best videos I find each month and free audiobooks! Just click now. Here are some of my audiobooks:

Fun Videos Life After Life Chronicles March Fourth
Enjoy all four novels in audiobook, paperback, or Kindle format!

And here’s your first fun video:

Robot Chicken and Emperor Palpatine Parody

No doubt I’m the last to discover Robot Chicken and its hilarious parody of ‘Star Wars’, but I laughed as hard as anyone. Did you know about this? Did you like it? As always, personal comments and emails get a free book. Click here.

Fun Videos – Your Second Video

Here you have another type of fun: fun history. You don’t believe there is such a thing? Take a look at these color photos from a hundred years ago and be amazed.

All the people in the photos are dead, yet they still seem alive and like people you can meet on the street.

What Is Your Third Fun Video?

Imagine life as a video game. Now imagine you’re playing it as any animal you wish. Which would you choose? If we narrow it down to playing a fish, which would you pick? This video looks at fish as characters in a video game. Who do you think is best? Give me an answer and I’ll give you a book, if you click here.

Fish as video game characters

Are You Not Entertained?

It’s hard to listen to this and not be enertained.

I love jazz! Did you know that?

I like jazz so much, I’ll give you another jazz video in a completely different style.

Fun Videos – Final Comments

Fun Videos
Preview of a tiny portion of my next book Secret Supers in Space

My book Secret Supers in Space is coming out December 9th! Join my newsletter and find out the final cover today! Click now to get the cover and much more! The newsletter also has videos just like these, plus free book offers from me and other authors.

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Interesting Links and Videos for Shut-Ins

Interesting Links for Shut-Ins is my effort to help lift spirits during the pandemic. You may not have toilet paper, but at least you can laugh or learn something new.

Your first link comes next.

Okay, here’s a fun contest: the first one to guess how many pennies it takes to fill up the Milky Way Galaxy gets all five of my books in any format. Just show your computations here.

Your First Interesting Video

Galadriel was favorite character in the Lord of the Rings

I just finished reading the Lord of the Rings aloud to my daughter. I found this great Youtube channel with in-depth analyses of the books. You’ll surely find it interesting.

What is your favorite Lord of the Rings character? Let me know and get an ebook from me, your choice.

Interesting Links
Four books in my Life After Life Chronicles. Click to get one or all.

And the first book in my new series:

Interesting Links
Secret Supers – click for free audiobook.

More Interesting Links for You

I love seeing rapid technological progress, especially as it fulfills old science fiction tropes. What about you? Do you like robots or fantasy more?

Regardless, I’ve got 36 free ebooks for you. Click now or forever hold your peace. This offer expires on April 1st at 12 AM PDT.

Interesting Links
Click to get 36 free books

Now Enjoy This Encouraging Video

From Japan to Norway, fans from 31 countries around the world have lent their hearts and talents to the “You Will Be Found” Virtual Choir, proving once again that every voice matters. Thanks to Alex Lacamoire and Nevin Steinberg for making our choir sing.

Laugh at This New Short Story – The Last of Interesting Links

This story, ‘The Butterfly Effect” comes from my collection, ‘Oops! Tales From the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse’. I’ve never shared it on my blog before.

Interesting Links
Click to get yours

Here’s the most recent review of the book:


Lizard

5.0 out of 5 stars 

What do zuccini, phoenix genetics, and superpowered kids have in commom?

As I expected, story time at Andy’s house must include a recorder to grasp the many directions and characters he develops in each book. This set of several stories are exciting in a novel manner of disbelief overlaid with a tinge of possibility. How many people have tasted a hummingbird zombie zuccini, a superpowered set of disabled kids with a intelligent hamster as co-partner, a phoenix genetic research specialist, all these under one cover? Well, step right up and open page one! Each story includes an ideas from his zombie turkey series and as always a hint of something new to come!This was a free book and I am not connected to anyone involved. I laughed and soaked up the words wanting more.One person found this helpful

Here you have In A Pickle which I’ve shared before.

In A Pickle
In A Pickle short story. Click to read.

But now I’m sharing the next short story in Oops!, Butterfly Effect.

Butterfly Effect story icon. Click to read.

They’re both good. Let me know what you think. If you want to review my book, let me know and I’ll send you an ebook.

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5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You

5 Weird Things I’ve Never Shared With You in the whole three years I’ve been writing this blog. How can I be sure? I’ve just learned about them in the past month.

But first, let’s have this:

I wasn’t planning to count this as one weird thing since it’s satire, but I wanted to start with something funny.

Okay, this next item begins the weirdness:

This triggered so many things in my mind: first, the cloaking field from Star Trek.

The Enterprise decloaking

Next, Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility:

https://giphy.com/gifs/harry-potter-magic-J5lxA8X7kisRG
Harry Potter getting his invisibility on

But the oldest example is below:

The Invisible Man – “I’ll show you!”

On we go to the next weird thing.

Your Second Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things

How can I not have the phrase ‘intelligent slime mold’ in my blog post? You may ask, ‘How can a slime mold be intelligent?” They can efficiently solve the famous ‘Travelling Salesman’ problem. You haven’t heard of that? Check out the following article:

5 Weird Things
The Travelling Salesman Problem – click the image for more

Earlier in my life, I worked in operations research and this problem was difficult to solve by computer. How difficult? It belongs to a class of problems called ‘NP hard problems’. That means the difficulty goes up as a factorial (1*2*3 = 3 factorial) of the number of cities.

You can solve this by brute computing force, but the slime mold does it without brains! That’s weird.

Your Third Weird Thing

But first, a book break!

I am an author, so I love books. Tell me your favorite and I’ll send you a free short story.

On to our next weird thing! How about a robot that does gymnastics? It also weighs about four hundred pounds.

If this robot isn’t grist for a science fiction story, then I’ve never read SciFi before!

The Penultimate Weird Thing

I love vocabulary for its own sake, ever since I read the ‘Abecedarian Book’ when I was twelve. Penultimate is one of those weird words you read, but may not know the meaning. Look it up.

I read this book when I was 12.

Your new weird thing begins here.

Do you believe this?

You know it’s weird when you can’t believe it (I didn’t) and yet it’s true.

The Last Weird Thing of 5 Weird Things – And Free Stuff

Who doesn’t like dragons?

Finally, I bid you adieu!

5 Weird Things
Andy Zach at Archon in St. Louis

PS: I forgot to tell you where you can get free stuff.

First, you can get 31 free books here:

5 Weird Things
Click image to get 31 free books

Then, you can get my comic paranormal animal book, Zombie Turkeys here:

5 Weird Things
Click to get your free copy