• The refreshments at the math department holiday party included bear meat. It mostly tastes like roast beef.
  
• I have finished my schoolwork for the semester, to one extent or another, and now can think about other things. Such as actually making the various family Christmas presents that I had brilliant ideas for months ago, and now realize I need ( Read more... )

I read Blindsight. And yes, it was hard sf with vampires, as advertised. I'm just . . . a little unsure why there were vampires. Did some Laurea-analogue rogue geneticist just decide "Hey, you know what I could do? I could clone some VAMPIRES!" and then do it, and then people realized they were useful and things escalated from there ( Read more... )