Attended the Bike Community meeting at Metro Hall, where they laid out the bike lanes plans and the like for 2010. Full house and a lot of discussion, a fair bit about what the mayoral election might do to all these plans, and the continuing pie-in-the-sky status of a bike lane on Bloor. Most interesting bit was proposed bike lanes on University, ( Read more... )

The Spirit and Opportunity rovers landed on Mars six years ago now, and have been racking up all sorts of discoveries as they trundle around the Red Planet. When you consider that their official science mission life was 90 days, it's a tribute to the engineers who designed them and have been operating them ( Read more... )

Last night was the Annual General Meeting for the Friends of the Merril, which went smoothly. I'm sticking around on the board for another year.

The biggest news was the local SF author Karl Schroeder is going to be TPLs Writer in Residence for the next six months, so if you want to have your work critiqued, the details are here.

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Heard from the Test the Nation people that my brother and I were in the top 20% of those taking the test, which makes me feel better.

It's been an arts week so far. Monday was at the Gardner Museum (really have to go through there in detail) for an event with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, hosted by Soundstreams, on being an artist in ( Read more... )

Back from Test the Nation. Sigh. The Twins team came in last. I've pretty pleased with my performance however, although I did get flustered a few times and that cost me. Trying to figure out the picture clues on a big screen far from you wasn't easy, as was not being able to use a pen and paper (which I'm sure all you people to home used ( Read more... )

One of my gaming groups had a get-together last night (in which I figured out how to play Settlers of Catan: Cities and Knights, andmarinav bought her Nook for me to look over ( Read more... )

My brother and I will be appearing live on CBC TV on Test the Nation, at 7 PM on Sunday, Jan. 24th. We'll be on the Twins team. It was a tossup between that and the Atheist team. I really wanted there to be an Atheist Twins team, but alas no.

Hope you're all relaxing and enjoying the day today. My brother will be over shortly, and we'll relax by marathoning thru all 26 episodes of the anime series The Last Exile. I'll cook dinner, and Dave's bringing the junk food. See you at about 2 AM.

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