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“Have you tried just not having the flu?” “Well laying in bed hooked up a respirator obviously isn’t helping you. Maybe you should try something else instead.” “I realise you just crushed both legs under that truck but perhaps you should just cheer up and go for a walk.” Do you realise just how stupid… Continue reading the rest of this post

If you were arrested… What would be the first thing that people would think it was for?

If an orbiting space station is built with extended arms that have a diameter of approximately 1 A.U. and then rotated at slow velocity the objects at the arms extremities will rotate faster than objects at the hub. The structure doesn’t need to be 1 A.U. (about 93,000,000 miles) but it’s a good size, it… Thirsting to get the remainder of “Orbiting space stations as a means of accelerating to significant portions of c?” Click on this link!

I am the last person you should take investment advice from, but if you are going to invest, low cost index funds with a diversified coverage are the way to go every time if you want to get wealthy and don’t want to actively invest. This is investing on auto-pilot and it is so stupid… Continue reading the rest of the post

So WorldCon ’87 is over. Got a cool black sweatshirt and my plastic membership badge with the same logo. I have to say, the five days I have been here has been a whirlwind of stimulation. It was really anti-climatic to be heading back home on the train. Back to the real world now, I… Click here to read the rest of the post

So I met William Gibson. That was pretty damn awesome. Also got to see Buckaroo Banzai across the Eight Dimension. Hope I can find that on tape some day as I’d like to see it again. And also picked up some really cool engineering drawings of the Millennium Falcon and the Odyssey from 2001 in… Click this link to read the remainder of this article

So I learned this weekend at a session on anti-matter that empty space isn’t really empty and there is a theory that there are these things called “virtual particles” that are popping in and out of existence all the time and they always exist as a pair. I tried to ask the speaker after the… Click to read the rest of “Conspiracy ’87 Personal Journal.”

Attending my first “WorldCon” in Brighton. I seem to be spending most of my time in the dealer’s room (which is fantastic, three huge rooms, I haven’t measured it but I’d estimate it is at least 20,000 square feet) and the gaming rooms playing RPGs and computer games. I’m not sure what a dealer’s room… Needing to read the remainder of “Conspiracy ’87 Personal Journal?” Click on this link!

When my life flashes before my eyes, I want to make sure it is worth watching.

Holy fucking shit balls!! I’ll be 20 tomorrow. Do I start having to be a responsible adult tomorrow? I don’t think I am ready of capable to adult.