Well, not too far beyond, we hope.
 I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news…
(ETA:   Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)

Posted in Current events, Europe, News, Science, Technogeekery, Travel 1 Comment »

Folks, just a quick word: this week has become unusually disrupted due to other work that’s going on in-house, so I’m going to have to postpone the chapter posting until just after the 27th. Unfortunately the chapter’s just not ready to go up yet, the in-house crisis won’t allow any work on any other projects until […]

Posted in "The Big Meow", Home life, Travel, Writing 1 Comment »

In the NY Times travel section.
Tags: food, prices, US+airlines, flights, US

Posted in Food, restaurants and cooking, Travel No Comments »

Gorgeous.

Tags: Enceladus, Saturn, moon, space, probe, ice, life, solar+system

Posted in Astronomy, Science, Travel No Comments »

It was a charming convention. I look forward to coming back some time (with Peter, this time).
Stockholm is a city I look forward to visiting again when I have more time. The light here is very special. (The dark, not so special. Or maybe it is, but I’m a little set against it at the […]

Posted in Conventions, Current events, Food, restaurants and cooking, Travel 1 Comment »

Spent a super day amongst the Swedes. No more to say about that at the moment, except that I’m about to go back to the hotel and fall over. (NB: Sweden looks a lot like Ireland when it’s raining. But you knew that.)
 
Tags: StoCon, Stockholm, convention, Sweden, Swedes

Posted in Conventions, Current events, Travel No Comments »

Gaah.
Tags: computer, detention, laptop, examination, gaah, paranoia, government

Posted in Computer stuff, Current events, News, Travel No Comments »

So here I am. Missing Peter (inevitable), enjoying the weather (hot, sunny, a touch humid), and working (also inevitable: Vasa is going to have to wait for the next trip, I’m afraid).
The eclipse passed without notice in most parts of the city, I think. (But at only — what, 30%-ish totality? — this is forgivable. […]

Posted in Astronomy, Food, restaurants and cooking, Travel No Comments »

PASADENA, Calif.–Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years…

So what’s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing […]

Posted in Astronomy, Humor, Science, Travel No Comments »

Sheesh. Unusual for me. But here’s the info.  (The path of totality has also been Google Mapped.)
Stockholm will only be getting a partial — I estimate 35–40%-ish coverage from the diagram — but that’s still more than I’d have seen at home in Ireland. What great timing!
Here’s a magic phrase, though:

The path of totality […]

Posted in Astronomy, Science, Travel No Comments »

Here’s another 2008 convention gig I thought I’d post about here, since it hasn’t been mentioned on the blog previously, and this seems like a good way to get the word out.
The nice people at Con*Stellation 27 have asked me to come be their Guest of Honor in Hunstville AL over the weekend of October 17–19. Peter […]

Posted in Conventions, Fantasy and science fiction, Media, Travel No Comments »

There’s been no mention of this on the blog recently, so I thought I’d drop in a note about it now: I’ll be the Guest of Honor at StoCon ‘08 from the 1st through the 3rd of August. The convention venue is the Kulturhuset in Skarpnäck, a suburb of Stockholm (you can get there easily on the Metro: it’s […]

Posted in Conventions, Fantasy and science fiction, Media, Travel No Comments »