The Gaming Outpost

The Examiner’s temporal anomalies series continues with Terminator part 13:  killing Niven’s grandfather.  Niven’s Law at least implies that once something has been changed in the past it stays changed, even if the future is so altered that it cannot become changed.  John Conner disagrees, or at least does not want to take the chance that Niven is wrong; Skynet, on the other hand, appears not to want to take the chance that Niven is right.  Thus we have the interesting flirtation with paradox discussed in this entry.

I’m thinking that I’m going to have to redo a fair amount of my Mimzy analysis, because I think I was too hard on the film, and not for any good reason.  I just started seeing how very implausible it was for things to work, and wrote it off as an impossibility; but it is only an extreme implausibility, and I don’t know that I made that clear.  Anyway, hopefully I’ll find some time to do that before time expires.  I also have to write a bridging article, probably an answer to a question someone raised already about the Terminator timelines, but I think I can do that easily enough.

Meanwhile, a friend and gamer who thinks that I am most alive when I do my music has extended an invitation to me to perform an acoustic concert somewhere, and I’ve invited Baxter, the last remaining vestige of the band Collision, to duo with me.  That’s going to require some practice time, but I do think there’s something about performing that brightens my days, so I’m going to prioritize this.  Already I’ve inquired about another potential venue for us, and we’ve had a quick rehearsal to see what songs we could muster in two and a half weeks.

So I remain forever busy and never wealthy.  It is, perhaps, my own curse.

–M. J. Young