This and That
I slept much better last night than I did Monday night - Monday night was tossing and turning and muscle aches and Robot Chicken, which lead to yesterday being a little bleary at times. Happily, last night I slept like a log, and so I'm feeling much better.
My commute continues to be one of the unfortunate things about working in Boulder and living in Denver. Happily I don't have to drive said commute - my wife drives me downtown and I hop on an express bus to head towards work. Along the way I've been reading - magazines are my friend - and watching videos and listening to podcasts on my Nokia N800, which is this cool mini touchscreen computer that I got for Christmas. I recently got around to updating to the latest operating system, and it's a nice upgrade - newer icons, some flashier functionality, and I can more easily convert video (to mpeg format) and play it than on the OS2007, which had a tendancy to suddenly freeze on a particular frame. I still occasionally get that with the new OS, but it's less often. Much fun with 'This Week in Tech', 'Doctor Who', and just today, 'Techzilla'.
Science fiction is heavy on my mind recently, as the WorldCon - World Science Fiction Convention - is coming to Denver in merely three weeks. I'm really excited at being able to attend one at such a low cost, and I look forward to see what makes a Worldcon better than the stellar local conventions we have in Denver each year. As either a side-effect, or just the result of running it for so long, my Science Fiction Meetup has suddenly exploded into activity, with six or more people attending my last few meetings. I got a similar burst of activity from my Boardgames Meetup a year or so ago, when a meetup that had had one or two other members showing up for the first year suddenly rocketed into a really healthy group. It's really nice to see this sort of a change.
And I think that's enough for now - work to do.
My commute continues to be one of the unfortunate things about working in Boulder and living in Denver. Happily I don't have to drive said commute - my wife drives me downtown and I hop on an express bus to head towards work. Along the way I've been reading - magazines are my friend - and watching videos and listening to podcasts on my Nokia N800, which is this cool mini touchscreen computer that I got for Christmas. I recently got around to updating to the latest operating system, and it's a nice upgrade - newer icons, some flashier functionality, and I can more easily convert video (to mpeg format) and play it than on the OS2007, which had a tendancy to suddenly freeze on a particular frame. I still occasionally get that with the new OS, but it's less often. Much fun with 'This Week in Tech', 'Doctor Who', and just today, 'Techzilla'.
Science fiction is heavy on my mind recently, as the WorldCon - World Science Fiction Convention - is coming to Denver in merely three weeks. I'm really excited at being able to attend one at such a low cost, and I look forward to see what makes a Worldcon better than the stellar local conventions we have in Denver each year. As either a side-effect, or just the result of running it for so long, my Science Fiction Meetup has suddenly exploded into activity, with six or more people attending my last few meetings. I got a similar burst of activity from my Boardgames Meetup a year or so ago, when a meetup that had had one or two other members showing up for the first year suddenly rocketed into a really healthy group. It's really nice to see this sort of a change.
And I think that's enough for now - work to do.