The Gaming Outpost

Today I published a response to a question, or more accurately a challenging comment, which someone posted in response to the article about the Lewis Carroll Mimzy.  In it, I discuss how the Examiner temporal analyses are done and in what senses they are likely or unlikely.  Thus I invite you to read The Last Mimzy question 1:  probability of analysis.

I feel a bit like answering questions is a delaying tactic.  The analysis of The Lake House is not complete, and I do not know that it will be complete by Monday, and I won’t launch it without at least a complete draft of the full series.  Publishing answers to questions is one way to buy myself some time, and the fact is I have several more articles drafted as answers to questions I’ve not yet published.  But since I prefer to start new series on Monday and The Last Mimzy series was an odd number of articles (eleven) it makes sense to post an answer to a question to round out the two-per-week arrangement.  It also makes sense to use the lull between films to catch up some of those answers, although since two of them are about Primer (and I’ve at least another to write about that film) and the Primer articles always bring comments from the fans who think I’ve completely misunderstood the film I can expect to get some flack–er, feedback–on those which will require some time-consuming responses.  But it’s a trade-off, and probably I’ll gain more overall by stirring up the Primer audience a bit than I’ll lose by delaying The Lake House another week or so.

I neglected to announce via Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook the introductory article to the new Adapting series I posted yesterday.  Part of that is that I didn’t know quite what to say about it; part of it was that yesterday I thought I was overly busy until abruptly I was done, and I forgot about it until this morning, when I did not want yesterday’s Gaming Outpost article to interfere with today’s Examiner article.  If I remember, I’ll announce it tomorrow.  I’m not supposed to work on Saturday, but posting an article announcement in a few places wouldn’t be too serious an infringement.

So that’s what’s happening, and I just got flagged for an “emergency errand”, so I’d better go.

–M. J. Young