The MacEwan Residences are now on my list of place to never return to. The accomidations are below what they’re charging you (and it looks like they stealth charged us in addition to not providing checkout times), the rooms are almost unihabitable in the summer, and the staff are incompetant.
I enjoyed just about everything else. So, based on my experience, if you’re coming to Edmonton for a convetion or any other place, stay somewhere else. Even if it means paying a little more.
It’s not really a secret that I fall on the science side for “understanding the universe” theories. I also think scientific experimentation and theories, and all that jazz is a good thing.
Someone I know linked an article about the Large Hadron Collider (BBC News Article). One of the scientist against the project apparently borught up a fundamental question that I think is interesting.
How improbable does a cataclysm have to be to warrant proceeding with an experiment?
There’s a conversation in the Lost Room that I like. I’ll probably edit this to have the exact quote when I get home, but it ends something like this:
Joe: But what if you’re wrong?
Karl: Well, everyone will be dead so it doesn’t matter.
I don’t know much about the LHC, so I can’t comment on its ability to destroy the world. But trying to figure out where the line is on a risk with that potential is something that intrigues me.
/ponders more
Swiped from uzil. Book meme!
1. Bold the ones you have read.
2. Italicize the ones you plan to read
3. Underline the ones you love
midnyteabbadon put up a meme: ‘Google an image of where you want to be right now.’
Since it’s almost June and where I want to be right now is Strawberry Creek Lodge for the writing retreat, that’s what I put in.
I find it highly amusing that one of the results on the first page is my own picture, from my Flickr feed.
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Carencro by Marc Broussard Includes:
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Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut”I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write I simply become what I seemingly must become.” Welcome To The Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. |
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Something to Be by Rob Thomas Includes:
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