Harper's Magazine responds to a question from me.

Phil Plait on motions within the U.S. Congress towards a space mission that would get the dealie on asteroid Apophis' sinister plans by physically popping a radio beacon onto it, well before its scheduled holy-shit-that-was-closeI really like the idea of this; it's a very satisfying mode of nerdly assertiveness. We are nervous about the big bruiser ( Read more... )

Doom doom doom doom doom.

In other news I won at Basari and then some crazy Settlers variant tonight.

I am writing the user manual for Gamut. It will be good. You will like it.

I know I'm on the right track in my work when I feel full of existential dread. No joke. It's been true for years, and in areas of my life outside of Volity: When I hit upon something I instinctively know I should do right now, I feel overcome with a sense of personal ( Read more... )

Thoughts turn morbid. Listening to my friends debate the physics of what would happen if they hit the LNG tanker. Immediate vaporization of East Boston from wide energy release or slow chaotic disaster from solar-hot narrow flares? Whee fun.

Other than everything in the world I'm having a good weekend.