I normally ignore memes, since I know for a fact I don't resemble a Lord Of The Rings or Star Wars character, or a Tarot card. But finally, here's a meme I can get into. renegade500 gets the credit for "infecting" me. I worked on this post for a week! What can I do -- I am verbose. :-) Anyway, here's how this meme works ( Read more... )

The Dorado science fiction club of Vilnius had their season opening today. (The club activity takes a break for the summer and resumes in September.) They opened the season with a picnic ( Read more... )

Today we applied for a passport for Erika. We want to take her to Lithuania to introduce her to my parents and siblings. So, a passport is required. It turns out that to apply for a baby's passport you need the baby's Social Security Number (if you had applied for one on behalf of the baby, and most people do). But, when Steve called the passport ( Read more... )

I have almost finished the article on post-cyberpunk. All that remains is to find Lithuanian equivalents of some English technical-related terms. Such as HDTV, bucky tube, or "to sequence a genome". Typically what I do is I ask my friends, the co-publishers of the fanzine, who live in Lithuania. They often have suggestions. If nobody knows the ( Read more... )

Yesterday I made some progress on the article I'm writing for the Lithuanian fanzine Dorado Raganos. The article will be based on a discussion panel at last year's ArmadilloCon (a science fiction convention in Austin, TX), called "Cyberpunk after 9/11". An English version (written by me as well) can be found here ( Read more... )