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On a lighter note….
I just discovered Larry Niven’s Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex is on the web!
Do they have Doc Smith’s Inertialess Drive?
The end of momentum begins “Somehow, the laws of political physics have changed.”
(If necessary, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertialess_drive)
As it should be
We visited the local video store yesterday. Wandering through it, in search of nothing in particular, I noticed The Day the Earth Stood Still. It was in the “Classics” section, not “Science Fiction”.
One Way of Looking at it
Bhí scéal agam (I had a story)
Every Monday night in Irish class we are all supposed to tell a scéal–a story about something that had happened in our lives. The idea is provide to practise composing and speaking Irish. The truth value of the scéal is not particularly important–It can be completely made up. This is personally difficult, since mistakes are inevitable and I do not deal well with making mistakes in public. But it is obviously important, so I go ahead.
In the scéal I try to talk about something that really happened, simply because I want to relate Irish to the rest of my life. Last night I said a little bit about Convergence. This may have been too ambitious, since I had to look up some specialized vocabulary. However, the work was fun. Continue reading
Convergence
This was a good con. Getting there
Another SF Convention, with a difference for us
mia_mcdavid and I are going to Convergence this weekend. Mia is already there. I will be joining her after work. James is staying home. Mia reminded me last night that it has been a long time since we went to a con without children. Our last convention before James was born was Windycon XIII, in November 1986. It was at the Hyatt Regency Woodfield, a very nice hotel in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The world has changed a lot since then, and so have we, but we are still fans.
Bad Astronomy looks at Transformers
Our firstborn has been a Transformers fan for a long time, so this caught my attention. See BA Transformers review now online, then Review: Transformers. There was a good comment about automobiles, although others have made the same observation, and possibly before Douglas Adams (L. Sprague deCamp comes to mind).
Different Monday Night
Gaeltacht Minnesota has gone to its summer schedule, so I have (roughly) alternate Monday nights free. I had planned on going to a class at Woodcraft, for which I had registered by a telephone conversation with wolfsword. However, I got a voicemail this morning that the class had been canceled for lack of students, and that my payment would be refunded.
So I ended up going into Minneapolis with mia_mcdavid for a session of the Speculative Readings Series at Dreamhaven Books, where haddayr read three excellent very short stories and another author read a single longer work, which was very different but also very good. Gaeltacht Minnesota was quite well represented there–All three teachers and several students came to hear haddayr.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 