Talking to colleague here – its the big ‘participation jamboree’ event thing which has nuked any notion of writing for near four days – I got roped into Chess which has just served to remind me why the chess I liked was coffee house chess. While discussing the inner machinations of the Monolith over some [...]
There was an OpEd piece noting that A One-Way Ticket to Mars could get volunteers and shouldn’t be discounted out of hand.
I agree – most of my family back two generations went to the US – by the numbers, I’m actually one of the tiny Irish offshoot of a large American family. They weren’t imagining [...]
I have managed to survive my trip the corporate skunkworks, even encounters some of the elders (on the back of a ‘while you’re there’ with no prep time, of course) and it was educational. Also I am still employed, this is good.
My point? It means that I shall be coming home on vacation shortly – [...]
Leprecon XXX was on at the weekend. I have lost the charger for my camera, and so for the first time in a few years, I have not uploaded hundreds of photos of the event. I now regret not making a better effort to charge the camera battery.
Instead, you can have a written account.
I hear this phrase with surprising frequency, leaving me with the conclusion that I have extremely ordinary genes. So many people seem to have a cousin who looks a lot like me that when someone says, “Do I know you?” I assume they too have a forgotten cousin with long hair, big eyes, and glasses. [...]