throw another bear in the canoe

Wil McCarthy's detailed dissection of the science behind an Iron Man style powered armor has done more to reveal to me why I've lately become so disinterested in writing "hard" SF than anything else I've read in recent memory. Because I don't even understand why you would want to examine the science behind a comic book. I mean, I understand that people do. But it's like... eating caterpillars. Or groping strangers in elevators. I just don't get what it would do for anyone.

We are more alien from each other than we know.

My slide away from any semblance of caring about how the actual physics work really started with Undertow, and I suspect it's only going to get worse.

Internal consistence, and sticking to my own established rules, however. That I can manage.

Today is a day off both from work and exercise, because I desperately need one. I'm going to read books and watch the Derby and drink a mint julep and eat catfish and generally not leave the house.

185.4 miles to Lothlorien.

As you may have heard, Making Light is down, and there is data loss. PNH has an appeal on his blog for anybody who may have cached or saved material from the last two months.

You could go help, if you had that sort of stuff around.

What a miserable fucking waste of a courageous horse.

This is happening too often.

Yet another criminology text. This one bills itself as "A standard system for investigating and classifying violent crimes."

Interesting and informative. Not a lot of stuff that was new to me, but arranged in an easy to reference fashion.

Now I need to read a book about fluffy bunnies. And chirping birds.