At some point in the recent past I thought a lot about LARPing and roleplaying games and decided, perhaps foolishly, that others will never accept this hobby of mine if I am afraid to talk about it openly, myself. This is partly an attempt to be principled about it, and also because I suspect part of the reason it is looked down in some circles is ( Read more... )

(alternatively titled, "well...crap.")

The context: In my new workplace there are a few people (not me though) who study forest fires, which is somehow fitting. With the old group, we shared the building with the seismologists, and as such because of all of the really highly sensitive seismographs we were probably the first to know of any ( Read more... )