Your Monday moment of zen.
Flowers in an old boat. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 5:18 am Mon April 25 2011 | Comments(0) |
A reader reacts to Escapement — Quite positively so.
Archaïsmes désuets — The French blog Anniceris on zeppelins in steampunk.
The High Water Mark of American Science — Inside the old SSCL site in Texas. This came up over the weekend at Norwescon. (Snurched from Dark Roasted Blend.)
The Really Smart Phone — Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.
Casio Watches an Arresting Offense in Afghanistan: Wikileaks on Guantanamo — It’s always nice to see America’s reputation for justice being substantiated.
Of Donald, Dunces and Dogma — [Trump's candidacy] further exacerbates a corrosive culture on the right that now celebrates the Cult of Idiocy — from Glenn Beck to Michele Bachmann — where riling liberals is more valuable than reason and logic, and where intellectualism and even basic learnedness are viewed with suspicion and contempt. Yeah, that’s the modern Republican party in a nutshell.
Wounded Elephant Screechings — Republicans and the budget. More on the justly famed principled intellectual consistency of our friends on the Right.
?otD: Have you ever ridden an elephant?
Posted: 5:16 am Mon April 25 2011 | Comments(0) |
Had a more or less normal-for-me day at Norwescon yesterday. Less hiding in my room. Still pretty overwhelmed on the whole return of the cancer thing, but it was good to be out among a bunch of people who like me and care about me.
Reading today at 1 pm, if you’re around. Then I’m skiving off for home. I’ll see my liver surgeon on Wednesday to confirm the treatment plan and get a firmer sense of the timing of things this summer.
Inside my head is complicated and difficult.
Posted: 7:35 am Sun April 24 2011 | Comments(3) |
Your Sunday moment of zen.
Plants in an old boat. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 7:32 am Sun April 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
Vintage Ad for Fat-ten-u Products — Huh?
Bert Untooned — Art Guru James Gurney asks, What would Bert from Sesame Street look like if you kept his cartoon proportions but made him otherwise real?
I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem — Last year a mainstream psychology researcher called Daryl Bem published a competent academic paper, in a well respected journal, showing evidence of precognition. Instead of designing new studies to see whether people could consciously tell you about the future, he ran some classic psychology experiments backwards.
Australian outback time lapse — The night sky in HD.
Exoplanet Aurora as Detection Tool — Oooh cool.
Berbers in Libya — Language, culture and minorities in Gadaffi’s Libya.
?otD: Eastercon or Westercon?
Posted: 7:30 am Sun April 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
Laid low most of yesterday. I did make my one panel for the day, which was pretty fun, then a Ken Scholes reading, then the Water For Quarks release party, then a group dinner. That pretty much burned me out.
This is very unlike my normal behavior, at Cons or otherwise. The cancer stress is still happening, still settling in.
On the plus side, got the PET results late yesterday afternoon. Everything is as expected, no metastatic bloom. Life is very weird when a 35 mm tumor is good news, but almost all the alternatives were somewhere between far worse and fatal. So that is good news.
I’m hoping to have a more normal-for-Jay Con day today. And I’ll be more visible than I have been, I think.
Posted: 5:39 am Sat April 23 2011 | Comments(4) |
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Metal sculpture, Pomeroy, WA. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 5:36 am Sat April 23 2011 | Comments(2) |
Making Light on Yog’s Law — Money always flows toward the author.
Scrivener’s Error on copyright, parody and related matters
The Struggle to Spread the Minority Report Interface — Few moviegoers realized this wasn’t a special-effects fantasy. It was a working system called gspeak[.]
IBM PC inventor explains how Control + Alt + Delete was born — (Thanks to Dad.)
?otD: Convention much?
Posted: 5:35 am Sat April 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
At Norwescon, no word on the PET scan results yet. Life goes on.
Posted: 6:19 am Fri April 22 2011 | Comments(2) |
Your Friday moment of zen.
Metal sculpture, Pomeroy, WA. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Posted: 6:17 am Fri April 22 2011 | Comments(1) |