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Bobiverse
I have been reading, for a couple of years now, a series of books called the Bobiverse. It is a science fiction series which follows a project manager and software developer called Bob who dies and is then resurrected around 100 years later as a von Neumann probe. Von Neumann is a self replicating machine,…
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Remembering 9/11
I was sailing with a predominantly American group on a three-masted barque called the Statsraad Lehmkuhl on September 11 2001. It’s a beautiful Norwegian training ship, based out of Bergen. It’s about 85m long and 12m wide at the widest point. This is long and slender for a ship, so it looks fast. It can…
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Environs
I just finished my Chinese class and one of the things I thought I would do very quickly before I start working is to write my daily entry. One of the things that’s really difficult to admit to myself is I have plenty of time to do things. It’s really about what I choose to…
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Regret
I’m going to stick to just these two entries. We are hot off the press of the entry I’ve just written for Thursday 3 September and now, given it is Sunday evening, I’ll write the entry for this one. This weekend I went to Manchester and spent Friday and Saturday night at J&J’s home and…
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Toy Soldier 3
On Saturday I went to Element Games which is a shop and gaming centre in Stockport, just outside Manchester. It’s also known as the Northwest Gaming Centre and is quite popular. There’s room inside for about 80 to 100 people who are painting, playing games and just generally talking and having a nice time. They…
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Cues
I should really be doing my homework. And I will do my homework in a minute, right now I thought it would make some sense to write one of the entries currently due. Sometimes I want to be exactly where I am, in the company I’m sharing doing the things I’m doing. Being who I…