Comments on: MMMMMmmmm, BayCon

By: Kaptain K

Kaptain K — Sat, 27 May 2006 14:30:07 +0000

My (very shaky) link to fame: I didn’t graduate from the same University as Larry Niven!

By: SuperCorgi

SuperCorgi — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:29:40 +0000

“Authors Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle will be there”
I too am turning green with envy. Larry Niven was the first “hard” sci-fi author I ever read. Loved his stuff — even the fantasy. Hey, ask him why he never finished the “Integral Trees” series. That was a fascinating setting and I wanted more!

By: Jim F.

Jim F. — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:22:19 +0000

I had to laugh when I discovered that savelivesinmay has (or had?) a link to “Sky and Telescope”. One click on that and I was looking at a beautiful picture of the comet. The one that didn’t hit Earth. You gotta wonder. Is this a gullability test? A joke? A sincerely deluded individual? A bunch of people who are actually sorry that they have to go back to work on Tuesday? Sigh.

P.S. Chatting with Larry & Jerry… I’m turning green with envy.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:07:56 +0000

Now that the world and human folly are still around, here's one more for the pareidolia file. It might be even better than the Lenin in the shower curtain.

By: Tara Mobley

Tara Mobley — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:06:37 +0000

Dammit! Phil Plait is giving talks about an hour from where I live, and I can’t really go! If I can make it on Sunday, I will. It will, of course, depend on if I have the funds and BayCon isn’t all sold out of day passes.

Otherwise I’ll just have to read about it here.

By: NelC

NelC — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:31:15 +0000

Heh, I was just looking at my Ringworld game last night. Box is looking a bit sad, but the books are still in pretty good nick.

I was looking up some planetary data on Plateau, and wondering if the existance of free oxygen at that height indicated some kind of biology going on in the depths of the atmosphere….

And, no, I’m not selling. The game is too pretty for me to give it up yet.

By: Pandabear

Pandabear — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:08:10 +0000

Ringworld rings a bell somewhere.. I remember an adventuregame called just that and found it listed as abandonware: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1347 It might require DosBox to play though..

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Fri, 26 May 2006 12:05:24 +0000

Dude, do you have any idea how much that Ringworld RPG is worth? That’s one of those long out-of-print RPGs that is impossible to find…. And, if you get it signed by Larry Niven, well, heck, you could probably retire! (Well, maybe not quite.)

-Rob

By: AitchJay

AitchJay — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:51:55 +0000

Good luck, sounds like fun!

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:48:35 +0000

Ah, but according to the website, we have a 48 hour window. It could happen today. Or even tomorrow. Honest.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Fri, 26 May 2006 11:21:30 +0000

Will Podcasts rule?

No. I didn’t buy a big screen TV and surround sound for nothing

I can’t say I’ve ever listened to a podcast. Perhaps because, Luddite that I am, I don’t own an iPod.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:44:45 +0000

Interesting. Today it seems as the forum on savelivesinmay.com is unavailable.
Big surprise. Oh well, looks as if I’m gonna have to get on with studying for my exams after all, now that the world is still around.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 26 May 2006 09:06:59 +0000

“Just Where in Centaurus Does a Centauri Come From?” Here are some typical Centauri:

http://www.coalafilmes.com.br/olyntho/images/b5/londo.jpg

Sounds like it will be great fun!