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Monday, April 30th, 2012
2:19 pm	If this is Tuesday, you must be Jeremy Elsewhere there was a request for people to write some poly diaries, which appeals to me in the form that I ever write journals, as a series of events to hang my thoughts about them on. ( So, a few weeks in the Twilight Zone ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
7:55 pm	Eastercon 2012 ( Quirky, Unrepresentative, Forgotten and Libellous ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
4:03 pm	Odyssey 2010 Part 2 Sunday ( Here be Rantings ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
6:02 pm	Odyssey 2010 - Message in a Klein Bottle It's Spring time, when young SF fans' fancies turn to spending 4 days in panels vaguely related to their topics, if not to SF, and so this year we came again to the Radisson Non-Euclidean Hotel, just off Heathrow Starport. Its topology remains as bewildering as ever, with non-contiguous floor numbering and parts of the fourth floor not path-connected, so geodesics need to be extra-dimensional. No wonder the first sign posters trying to make navigation easier were never seen again. But now they've added quantum light switching, so one day a switch controls the bathroom light, and the next it does nothing, but another (doubtless entangled with the same qubit) switch takes over. Obviously this is far more convenient than the Classical Electronics system of having wires between switches and lights. Probably. ( Bolder readers may continue Beyond The Cut ) (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
3:12 pm	The Reverse Alternative Life Meme Here's a game you can play at home: keep your actual date of birth but project your life from there backwards instead of forwards, thinking how you'd have been affected by the different background. It's surprising how close history is to your life, at least if you're old. ( here's mine ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 19th, 2009
12:14 am	Going down to Yasgur's Farm I feel like I retired again tonight, letting go of the two things that have plagued me for six months like work, but more self-inflictedly - online gaming and academia. ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
5:42 pm	Eastercon Doings This year the hotel was more topologically conventional than last year, compact and simply-connected, though with the first and second floors curiously only three feet apart vertically. It was also far too cold (except in the too hot bits), to the extent that I got Cold Illness that could only be cured by putting my jumper back on, though I've now made a full thermal recovery basking on my home rock again. ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
8:36 pm	Dark the Unsurrendered Night Rather than learn to write poetry the old-fashioned way, with rhythm and metre and things, I thought I'd just use javascript timing and dynamic web pages. Here is the result, which may only work in Firefox. Don't have nightmares. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
11:03 pm	Critical Sexology Seminar on "Non-monogamies" Just the highlights, and no spoilers for anyone who hasn't tried non-monogamy yet. ( well, just a few ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
3:42 pm	LJ treeview friends network browsing tool I fell off the not-programming wagon and produced a web page for browsing networks of LJ friends, which you can play with here (as long as you enable javascript and use Firefox, Internet Explorer doesn't work - hooray!) for the bargain price of suggesting improvements. ( more detail than you want ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
12:57 pm	Most badly plotted sequel ever? Here's the blurb from a 1970 film, with some names changed, which follows up the earlier story of an evil super villain who tried to conquer the world but was defeated by a suitable hero overcoming all odds. As he does again in the sequel (oops, spoiler alert). "Evil Super Villain returns from exile and once again seizes control of his former minions in a bid to reclaim his empire, and the Super Hero leads the opposing allied forces in the fateful battle to come. Drama, starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles and Virginia McKenna." ( What's the film? ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
7:16 pm	NewCon 4 Flashing Results We're just back from an SF Con in Northampton, unwisely held in an open-plan space called the Fishmarket, which has the acoustic properties of a fishmarket, but otherwise mostly good. The highlight was the flash fiction competition (meaning stories shorter than some people's sentences, rather than ones necessarily about flashing), in which pogodragon won various prizes for her creation of a new crossover genre combining science fiction with jumble sales. She's so clever! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 20th, 2008
6:04 pm	Game design is too important to be left to the politicians I don't usually post about the fascinating hobby of financial engineering, but last week's astonishing antics have pushed me beyond my ranting elastic limit - Bad People Need Chastising. ( a tale told by an idiot, full of government intervention, signifying a worrying lack of background in mathematical game theory ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
8:21 am	Are all car menders suicidally stupid? When you have a broken motorbike, someone comes around with a truck and takes it away. I sort of assumed it was the same with cars. ( enter the twilight zone ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
3:46 pm	Er, my childhood got revised, that's odd I tend to think of the malleable nature of history and pre-history as just something that happens to other people's pasts, but now someone has written a book about my best friend in secondary school, putting me into a parallel universe which Looks Different. ( enter the Twilight Zone ) Current Mood: surprised (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
6:02 pm	Time for a Schism with St. Dawkins? I've rashly watched the latest television show by Prof Dawkins, despite it being described as "a defence of the theory of evolution by natural selection", and am now considering him a heretic, which is one of the reasons why. (Rewind, reparse and reinterpet, it does make sense in a recursively self-referential way.) ( the case for burning the witch ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
12:16 pm	World View Overturned Alert! Again! Unusually, television seems to have overtaken the web in reporting results from the Neanderthal Genome Project, which revolutionise my view of the world, again. See Sex and the Neanderthals if it's still around for download when you read this. ( What did you do in Genesis, Daddy? ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
6:24 pm	Romance and other relationships - a game theory analysis (Aspie, what me?) Considering the significance of relationships such as romance and friendship to most people, it's odd they don't make more use of all the conflict analysis paid for by the US government during the Cold War. Admittedly that analysis produced the worrying strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction, but even that relationship pattern works well for some people. ( everything you always wanted to know about love, but lacked the mathematical background to calculate accurately ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 13th, 2008
1:36 am	Pixie Contraception - throttling Biomass Imperialism at source The previous post from Pixie World ended with the hope that we may not be doomed to the low efficiency fate of carnivorous pixies because we can control the expansion of our biomass (and hence food/energy gathering needs) with contraception. What happens if we give this solution to the pixies too? ( Look away now if you don't want to know the result ) (Comment on this)
Friday, July 11th, 2008
5:29 pm	Where's my super-sonic eagle? A previous post on the software-emulated biology of Pixie World covered the way plants reduce their own efficiency to avoid being nutritious enough to fuel a herbivore boom and bust cycle that would exterminate them. This might seem a desperate defensive strategy of last resort, but adding carnivorous pixies shows they do the same thing even as top predators, which has worrying implications if you happen to be Earth's current apex predator, the talking ape. ( The evolutionary arms race, hominid extinctions, brain size reduction, language, and other things we've misinterpreted ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)