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More fiber display stands
I finished two more fiber display stands, similar to these.
for mia_mcdavid to use in her business. Like the first pair, they can be taken apart for transport and quickly rebuilt on site. She will need them for her trip next week.
Cereal with nuts
Less than meets the eye
Everywhere you can read that Al Franken’s victory in the long drawn-out Minnesota Senate race gives the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority in the Senate. Actually, both liberal hopes and conservative fears are misplaced. I remember the Carter administration. The idea that all 60 Democratic Senators would vote lock-step on any really controversial issue is not science fiction. It is fantasy.
Intensive Physics?
I know this probably is about electrical switches, but when I saw this near downtown Minneapolis my first thought was about a really serious course on quantum mechanics.
Convention Game
Pin the Disease to Jenny McCarthy
A humorous look at a very serious issue.
From Bug Girl‘s entertaining Con Report.
For the record: mia_mcdavid and I have two children. Both are on the autistic spectrum. T is fully autistic (non-verbal) and J has Asperger’s Syndrome. Both received all the usual childhood vaccinations. We have no regrets about this.
Thankful for an institution
While at Convergence I heard there is a movement to get a star named after Michael Jackson. This idea is destined to the oblivion it deserves: All nomenclature of the sky is managed (quite well, IMHO) by the International Astronomical Union, which is not going to do anything so silly.
Convergence 2009
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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The evolution of Bigfoot ….
…. happened because Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf.
Friday night at Convergence there was an interesting and very funny panel about Bigfoot stories.
At Convergence
mia_mcdavid and I are at Convergence, the biggest of the local science fiction conventions. We are having a good time. The programming seems more interesting (for me, anyway) than in some previous years.
