[Personal note]

In yet another conflux of intersecting events, the last Harry Potter movie and the next Winnie the Pooh movie were released on the same weekend my oldest nephew married while the last operational U.S. space shuttle orbited Earth.

In the latest issue of “American Currents,” the article titled ‘Fixing the Broken Triangle: Working to Build Bridges Between Aquarium Hobbyists, Fisheries Biologists, and Academics’ caught my eye’s attention.

Snagged it, really.

My cousin loaned me “Matterhorn,” a novel about the Vietnam War from an American’s perspective.

Set a couple of photo albums to ‘Everyone’ access on facebook and my wife found herself tagged in photos displayed in search results after Googling herself.

Watched NASA TV for a while on the last full day of the STS-135 mission.

Pondered the future of crayons in a world of electronic colouring books. Are the days of rough paper drawing surfaces behind us?

What of the future away from nanotechnology?

Is there still money to be made producing/selling buggy whips?

How often do intended consequences occur?

Rumour has it that the Mumbai bombings were retaliation for India contracting with China to check smartphones for hidden code.

The diversionary game of headline rumourmonging is a special hobby of mine, fiction writing for the pleasure of predicting pedestrian futures.

Perception is the deception of reality and vice versa.

Plumbing the depths of universal mysteries keeps me from staring at my mortality.

Personal relationships get in the way of testing hypotheses and reporting new scientific discoveries.

Would you rather be the best parent in your subculture or figure out a way to convert raw resources on the Moon into a 3D printer/teleportation device that transports space habitats and people from Earth in order to build a lunar Mars-to-Earth spaceport relay station?

I gave up my Earth citizenship and joined the Solar System Org just so I could be the first to issue Milky Way currency, universally accepted everywhere and not subject to the politics of Earth-based coinage.