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Back Again
Well, Elaine has hooked me up with my blog again. I shall see if I am ready to stay with it this time.
I just can’t understand why anyone is taking Bush seriously as a candidate for President. The man invaded a sovereign nation without a declaration of war from Congress. He doesn’t seem to realize that slavery was firmly ensconced in the original Constitution. He doesn’t even realize what he took an oath for at his coronation. But what’s even worse is that our representatives are letting him get away with it.
I’m letting myself get distracted with BBC america. It’s Mystery Monday and I just saw a new show called McCallum, a mystery show about forensics. Those people have serious personal problems.
Tis late, time to go.
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Punslingers
Would a punslinger be said to have
a punny sense of humor or
a puny sense of humor?
HUAC
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Augusta National Golf Club?
Ominous indeed.
Torcon 3
Toronto has faded into the mist. Actually it was a pretty clear day as we departed Toronto. We could see the Tower from the Airport, which we didn’t on arrival, on account of darkness. Elaine and I spent the morning packing up and visiting the Royal Ontario Museum. It’s a lot bigger on the inside that the outside. Fortunately, or un, the ROM didn’t open until 10 AM, giving us plenty of time to pack and organize our return. The unfortunate part is the we only had 2.5 hours at the ROM before returning for our bus. The ROM was under renovation and several exhibit areas were closed. We did get to see the South Asian, Indian and Chinese Art exhibits as well as a ‘history of decorative drawing rooms from the 1500’s to present’ exhibit. What we totally avoided was the Natural history on second floor. Just ran out of time.
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Worldcon
Toronto is a very nice city for a Worldcon. The Parties have been going to 2 or 3 in the morning. Last night I heard a young woman say that going against the flow of the crowd was like a trout swimming upstream.
Dart game
I thought of a new Dart Game on the way home tonight. At least I don’t remember anyone else ever suggesting it before.
There are 20 numbers on a dart board, plus the bulls-eyes. Each number has an inner ring and and an outer ring worth 3X or 2X respectively. Take the scorecard from a golf course and shoot the par for each hole, 1 though 18. If par is 4 then shoot as many darts as it takes to make par. Do it in 2 darts with a pair of doubles, or a trip and a single, or four darts with four singles. Repeat for each hole . Fewest total of darts to reach par wins. In the event of a tie, go to the nineteenth hole. Most number of nineteens in three darts wins. If still tied, repeat with 20’s, then bulls, then double bulls.
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no maps for these territories
William Gibson is one of my favorite science fiction authors.I invited him to be the Guest of Honor at the Disclave I chaired in 1986, and he accepted. I think this was the first SF con at which he was GOH. He had just won the Hugo for Neuromancer at the previous Worldcon and it was a genre shaking book.
I just got a DVD from Netflix that is a “documentary” of Gibson. “No Maps For These Territories” is an interview he gives from the back seat of a car. the director, Mark Neale, gets to very in-depth discussions of his literature and his influences. Of course, there is much discussion of the impact of technology on the human psyche and Gibson’s perspective on it. I find it very interesting. And the director has lots of fun with the backgrounds seen through the car windows. I highly recommend it for fans of Gibson, or authors in general.