June Pieces Of My Mind #2 [Aardvarchaeology]

Nyckelviken’s folly

• Dropping off Jrette at sailing camp for her 2nd summer. Just like her brother in ’09. Just like me in ’86.
• Heard new interviews with Andy Weir and Larry Niven on Planetary Radio. I love the Internet!
• Kelley Johnston on self-defense training for daughters: “I’d rather bail you out of jail than identify you at the morgue”.
• Depeche Mode’s 1984 Some Great Reward was the first album I bought. I just listened to “Blasphemous Rumours” for the first time in decades and was impressed.
• Starting from the lines “Taken away to the dark side / I wanna be your left hand man”, I began writing a tongue-in-cheek occult interpretation of Vance Joy’s sweet 2013 hit song “Riptide”. But then I found that there are already several serious ones on-line.
• Oh how I hate web apps like Google’s that show you your documents long before they start taking input from the keyboard. I always hit the search key and start typing shit that ends up in my document instead.
• Layne Staley should still be recording.
• I love streaming music so much that I sometimes look for housework just so I can listen.
• The nuns are enthusiastic about visiting my dig.
• The first tea plantation in India was established in about 1820 by the British. In Assam.

The neglected rosebush I’ve been nurturing has started to bloom!

A roomful of used speculative fiction at the Fantastika 2016 scifi con!

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/28IN683

Nyckelviken’s folly

• Dropping off Jrette at sailing camp for her 2nd summer. Just like her brother in ’09. Just like me in ’86.
• Heard new interviews with Andy Weir and Larry Niven on Planetary Radio. I love the Internet!
• Kelley Johnston on self-defense training for daughters: “I’d rather bail you out of jail than identify you at the morgue”.
• Depeche Mode’s 1984 Some Great Reward was the first album I bought. I just listened to “Blasphemous Rumours” for the first time in decades and was impressed.
• Starting from the lines “Taken away to the dark side / I wanna be your left hand man”, I began writing a tongue-in-cheek occult interpretation of Vance Joy’s sweet 2013 hit song “Riptide”. But then I found that there are already several serious ones on-line.
• Oh how I hate web apps like Google’s that show you your documents long before they start taking input from the keyboard. I always hit the search key and start typing shit that ends up in my document instead.
• Layne Staley should still be recording.
• I love streaming music so much that I sometimes look for housework just so I can listen.
• The nuns are enthusiastic about visiting my dig.
• The first tea plantation in India was established in about 1820 by the British. In Assam.

The neglected rosebush I’ve been nurturing has started to bloom!

A roomful of used speculative fiction at the Fantastika 2016 scifi con!

from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/28IN683