Keeping Informed
July 29, 2011 in Blogs
Yesterday I did manage to upload the latest Examiner temporal article, Next part 2: information, and to make the first wave of announcements to that effect, before taking someone to the emergency room. It wasn’t really an emergency, since the accident occurred three days before; but it did involve a broken bone, and in my experience small breaks tend to go unrecognized and untreated sometimes for days at a time, because everyone assumes that the pain will get better soon enough, and gee, I couldn’t really have broken a bone, could I?
(My registered nurse wife is still embarrassed about the time she took my son to the emergency room telling him fine, we’d get a doctor to tell him it wasn’t broken, and the clerk at the sign-in desk took one look at him and said, “Yeah, that’s broken, all right.” Even if you’ve got the medical training, broken bones are easy to miss if you don’t work with them all the time.)
And as a friend recently said, I’ve never been in and out of an E.R. in less than four hours. And, after treatment, it was time to get a bite to eat, which left me with about half an hour to prep for rehearsal including selecting and printing the music for Sunday somewhat hurriedly, plus dropping off prescriptions on the way to the rehearsal, and trying to cover a lot of ground at the rehearsal (which was scheduled a bit late, mercifully, because the facilities were being used this week by Vacation Bible School past our usual start time), and by the time I got home I was feeling rather sick and pushed to get a very little bit finished before collapsing in bed. So I didn’t get this posted, for which I apologize.
The new article looks at the issue of information traveling from the future to the past, and how it might or might not create an anomaly. It also offers a solution that is not time travel to explain the precognitive abilities of the central character in the film–one which, I admit, is the way it’s done for psionic precognition in Multiverser, so I’m rather fond of it. That, though, is not the reason I prefer it for the movie. I just don’t like the way things work–or don’t work–otherwise.
Turning my attention elsewhere, I did manage to keep up on some of Eric Ashley’s contributions to the site, although I’m reading some even as I write this to get entirely up to speed. As anticipated, Practise Bits: Pressure 2 continues the story from the one mentioned last time, bringing in an investigator to examine the scene of the supposed accident on behalf of the insurance company. The story continues further in Practise Bits: Pressure 3, in which the investigator hits the kind of setback that makes him believe there’s something he doesn’t yet know. Practise Bits: Steam has an interdimensional travel serving as a feudal lord and introducing steam power to his demesne. Finally, Practise Bits: Club, presenting a brief stay in a bleak world ended by a dramatic departure.
This took longer than I’d intended, but I think I am well enough tonight to look at the forum posts, at least.
–M. J. Young
Tadeusz said on July 29, 2011
Sounds like this is going to be a short series. Oh well.
Both broken arms I had took me a while to get to the hospital on them. And one other, a pinkie finger, I never did.
JohnA1nut said on July 29, 2011
When I broke my leg, there was no question about it. For one thing, I heard the bone break, for another, my foot was literally on sideways. Fortunately, with 911 emergency services, I was in the hospital within 20 minutes of hitting the ground.
JohnA1nut said on July 30, 2011
(My registered nurse wife is still embarrassed about the time she took my son to the emergency room
Not trying to correct you so much as trying to improve myself. Shouldn’t that be “My wife” and “Our son”? The way you said it, it sounds like your wife isn’t his mother. Or is what you said grammatically correct?
Tadeusz said on July 30, 2011
John,
Feel free to grammatically correct my Practise Bits (not my posts tho’, please.)
Kickle Bob said on July 30, 2011
I cant believe Ive never been here! This is an extremely interesting story! The adventures of your character and his writings are very complex. Multi-layered to say the least. Also, would you happen to have any old Gamma-World modules you would be willing to donate? I’m running a 1st edition campaign at a nursing home in lower felton township.
JohnA1nut said on July 30, 2011
Feel free to grammatically correct my Practise Bits (not my posts tho’, please.)
Since you’re asking, that would be “Correct the grammar” To be “Grammatically correct” means to write it correctly.
M. J. Young said on August 1, 2011
There is not a grammatical problem with what I wrote, and it does not necessarily mean either that the boy is or is not also her son. It comes to me taking ownership of both my wife and my son. It could be argued that I am excluding her by implication.
For comparison, I might have said “my wife and her son”, which would have implied denying ownership of the son but only as a cultural concept. For example, King David could have referred to Bathsheeba and Solomon as “my wife and her son”, and he could have used the same description for Ahinoam and Amnon, Abigail and Kileab, Maacah and Absalom, Haggith and Adonijah, Abital and Shephatiah, and Eglah and Ithream (and yes, I looked those up). In that context it would be a matter of identifying the son by the correct mother.
So it’s grammatically correct, but it expresses a specific connection between the son and the father.
Kickle Bob–welcome to Gaming Outpost. I’m afraid the “character” in my blog is not fictional, but there is quite a bit of fiction posted here.
–M. J. Young
M. J. Young said on August 1, 2011
Yes, I wrote seven and kept trying to think of what else there was to say, but they were already starting to cover very close to the same ground, so I edited the end of the seventh to close the series and turned my attention to another movie.
Now I’m worrying about whether I’ll have the other one ready in time.
–M. J. Young