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Flipper, call your lawyer!
A scientist in South Africa says dolphins are dimwits–their large brains are simply an adaptation to being a mammal who lives in cold water, and aren’t wired for advanced information processing at all.
Johnny Depp to play Sweeney Todd
You know that this means, don’t you? It means Regina Lyric Light Opera‘s production of Sweeney Todd was four or five years too early. Well, that’s what it means to me, Lyric’s publicity director, who faced the “Sweeney Todd? Never heard of it!” problem.
Photos of the Weekend
Photos of SF Canada members who attended Calgary’s ConVersion science fiction convention over the weekend, taken by me and my wife and naturally including a few of yours truly, are now online at the SF Canada site I maintain.
I’m back!
Back in Regina, that is, albeit it briefly since I’m away again this weekend for my niece’s wedding down Glentworth way. My science column posted last night will serve as my con report from ConVersion, I think, although I did want to add a link to this year’s Writers at the Improv story. In Writers …
Unreal science
My wife and I spent the weekend at ConVersion, Calgary’s annual science fiction convention. Featured this year were David Weber as Guest of Honor, Larry Niven as Special Guest of Honor, and R. Scott Bakker as Canadian Guest of Honor and Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, as Media …
Challenging Destiny interviews yours truly
Canadian science fiction and fantasy short story magazine Challenging Destiny recently conducted an interview with me via email for its Issue #23. You can now read the interview online.
For the want of a cable…
…the photo of the day was lost. Alas, I packed everything in my camera bag except for the cable necessary to download photos from the camera to the computer. So no photos to share. And so light blogging continues. Though watch for reports from ConVersion starting tomorrow night!
Light blogging alert!
I spent the day driving to Calgary, where I now am. No photo of the day for that reason. I don’t know how much blogging I’ll be doing this week, though I might post some photos. There might be more this weekend from Con-Version, the annual Calgary science fiction convention I’ve attended for years. Or …
Photo of the Day: The Fire Show at the Saskatchewan Science Centre
More photos here.
Emeril kicks it up a notch…all the way to orbit
During the year my wife spent at home on maternity leave, she and I watched a lot of The Food Network…something we’ve continued to do, at least whenever we can convince our daughter to let us change the channel from Treehouse. Our favorite program was Emeril Live! And although we haven’t watched him regularly for …
Punctuation counts!
The Globe and Mail has proof: “A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation.” (Via Robert J. Sawyer.)
My latest live walk and vlog
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