The Gaming Outpost

Today’s plan had me taking the car to the shop late this morning and waiting for an hour or so over a decent book and a large root beer while they replaced the lock on the tailgate–probably not the most important repair the vehicle needs, but since we can’t haul trash to the dump if we can’t open the gate, it was the most urgent.  However, when their kid was backing the car into the bay, he somehow managed to hit something, breaking my back window, and giving them that much more to fix, so they gave me a ride home and I’m waiting to hear from them.  It’s getting late; I may have to call them soon.

I’ll have to call them because I have a rehearsal tonight, so I’m going to need transportation.  It’s a strange rehearsal, really–we’ve moved Collision rehearsals to Friday so the drummer can make it, but that gives the rest of us two rehearsal nights; but keyboard player Jonathan is out of town this weekend at an out-of-state wedding, so he won’t be there on Friday or Sunday, and church acoustic guitar player John is also going to be absent on Sunday, so it will be http://gamingoutpost.com/blog/always-different-and-the-same/”>Baxter and I Sunday morning, and we were able to work out what we need to do then last night, so I’m giving everyone the night off except Jonathan, who apart from the fact he ought to go over some of the Collision stuff with me also needs to give me his key to the practice hall for tomorrow night, so I’m going to have a brief rehearsal with him covering Collision stuff and a longer rehearsal with Baxter and Nick tomorrow night, and Sunday we’re going to sort of wing it, doing stuff we hope we know well enough that an extra practice isn’t necessary.

Assuming I get my car back in the next hour or so.

Having finished the Examiner temporal anomalies series on Next, I dropped in a filler on temporal theory.  This one answers the question, Temporal Theory 101:  What is the Butterfly Effect?, examining this concept in chaos theory, why it does not mean that anything ever happens at random and still supports unpredictability, and how it relates to time travel problems.  It really is about the unpredictable, the unexpected.

I did expect that Eric Ashley would continue his story about mining the mountain, and he has done so with Practise Bits:  Legend 2, although he has still only scratched the beginning of this story.

I am far from ready to run the next series, on Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, but over the weekend I will either finish it or put together something else to stall for another week.  I have several things I could announce, related to future articles there, but I’d rather focus on films, not on talking about talking about them.

–M. J. Young