Archive for 2006
This is nice.
Arrived in Brighton an hour ago, checked into my hotel with no problem (although apparently the water will be off most of Monday…), popped to the conference hotel and ran into Rob, who pointed me in the right direction to collect a badge holder and lanyard. Now sitting on the beach, reading some blogs and taking in the sea air. Lovely.
Is it wrong to look round a check-in queue/departure gate/aeroplane full of people and think:
I really hope the plane doesn’t break apart in flight with the passengers miraculously surviving and leaving me stranded on a weird desert island. With them.
More on that story later. Now in London en route to party conference in Brighton. Hurrah.
The planet that started the row which ended with Pluto’s demotion has been named. It’s lost its Warrior Princess nickname Xena and is called Eris after – rather suitably – the Greek god of discord and strife. It’s moon has also been aptly christened Dysnomia after Eris’s daughter, a “demon spirit of Lawlessness”.
I am, of course, disappointed that the IAU didn’t call it Mondas.
So we were expecting nuclear war, but it just hasn’t happened. Always a let-down.
I particularly like the countdown at the top of this modern day Cassandra’s website:
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
-1 days remaining before the start of nuclear war
Cassandra, as you know, predicted the future but no-one believed her and then it came true. I suppose two out of three ain’t bad…
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