The Gaming Outpost

Things have been crazy enough here that I posted a new temporal anomalies article at The Examiner this morning, announced it in several places, and could not remember when I got this far what it was about.  Ironically, it is about memory:  Hot Tub Time Machine part 3:  memory problems, or what do you know? delves into the problems created when someone relives his past by replacing the mind of his own younger self.

I might be excused some forgetfulness.  We rushed around quite a bit preparing for Halloween, after learning on Friday that because Halloween fell on Sunday and some local churches objected, “Trick or Treating” would be done on Saturday.  I find it a bit silly that Christians would object to the celebration of a Christianized formerly pagan holiday being celebrated on a Christianized formerly pagan Sabbath day, and the more so when it moves that holiday to the Biblical Sabbath, but I guess some people just have their holy days and their holidays confused enough that they would probably object if New Years Day fell on Monday.  But I managed to get my jack-o-lantern carved the night before, have the soda ready for visitors, and find enough of a costume to look somewhat wizardly at the door.

I also forgot to take my computer to the shop for the weekend.  I’m thinking I will do so late Thursday and pick it up again probably early Monday, as I will be leaving for Ubercon early Friday afternoon and probably not returning before the shop closes on Sunday evening.  That’s going to interfere with a lot of stuff I do regularly, but since not being here will interfere almost as much I’ll find ways to deal with it.

I started an article for publication here, but quickly became disenchanted with it.  It was one of those things where I suddenly had an insight into a matter I had been considering some years ago, and saw immediately how it connected to some other articles I’d written, and I wanted to tie it all together in a discussion of bias, but then when I did the first draft it just became drivel.  Then a few days later I returned to it and rewrote some, moved some, added some, deleted some, and had a still unsatisfactory article.  So maybe I’ll try again–but with Ubercon looming, nothing packed, much probably to print, and who knows what troubles, along with the fact that there are things to fix on the home front before I go, that’s not likely to happen today.  Additionally, I gave my first viewing to Premonition, which I have concluded is more impossible than merely a predestination paradox, muddling theories together in ways that are completely inconsistent and incompatible–which hopefully means unraveling it will give me a good and popular series.

I suspect the length of this blog is a reflection of the busyness of my life at the moment; but hopefully I will be able to address the forum threads and such.

–M. J. Young