Not Checkmate. Not Quite Yet.
#123: We were all frozen in place, by stalemate, not truce.
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2022
Things Are Not Going Well For Our Intrepid Explorers…
#122: Yagmar couldn’t even stand on his own, and had no weapons to hand.
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Notes on A Recent Decision
I felt I should say a few things here about the recent Supreme Court decision, especially for those people gloating about it today: Overturning Roe isn’t about reducing abortions. It’s about punishing women who have them. That’s it. That’s what’s going to happen. There are many things that can be done – and have been
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Excerpt from my Guatemala Trip Journal
I found the journal I kept on my road trip to Guatemala a couple of decades ago. I’ll enter it all here later, and scan in all the pictures from it that I can find (they’re mixed in with several hundred others in a box in my room) but for now, I’ll share this one
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He’s kind of telling the truth…
#119: “It’s right where you said it would be,” I admitted.
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Returning, just in time
#117: She stopped short, one knife held loosely in her uninjured hand.
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Norwescon 44 Panels – Pat’s Notes – PArt 10 of 10
The last panel I went to at Norwescon 44 completed the circle by bringing it back to interstellar travel. This one was about the technical details of how to get there, specifically looking at the concepts of the generation ship vs. hypersleep (“suspended animation”). From the program guide: Hypersleep vs. Generation Ships Even if faster-than-light
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