Android's Dungeon

"I've wasted my entire life."

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Nebula Update: Flowers for Algernon

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I finished another Nebula winner, giving me 5 left to go. I am not having much luck making it through The Stone Sky , so I may be stuck at 5...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: 2019/20 Second-Round Preview

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The first round didn't actually go too badly. Kilmarnock going out to Welsh "minnows" was obviously disappointing, but it...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Nebula Update: Man Plus

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I recently finished Man Plus , the 1976 Nebula Best Novel winner. Here is my entire Goodreads review. Man Plus by Frederik Pohl My ra...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

World Heritage Update: 2019 Inscriptions

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UNESCO has inscribed 29 new properties onto the World Heritage list, bringing the total to 1121. Of those, the only one I have visited is ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Geocaching: Spring 2019

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I only got out geocaching three days in the Spring. But two of those days, I found four caches each, so I at least got a total of 9. I wen...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: 2019/20 First-Round Preview

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Ah, summer, when a man's thoughts turn to Europa League qualifying. (And, OK, the Champions League.) After an amazingly good 2018/19 cam...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Nebula Update: The Calculating Stars

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I'm now down to 7 books to read in my Nebula Best Novel quest. I finished the latest winner, The Calculating Stars . It has a lot of goo...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Nebula Update: All the Birds in the Sky

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I finally got around to reading the 2017 Nebula Best Novel winner, All the Birds in the Sky . It was not as good as I would have liked. I ca...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Scottish Football: Three To Go

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I have updated my crude simulation after this weekend's games. The new probabilities are: Celtic 99.6% Rangers 0.4% Rangers 99.6% Cel...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Scottish Football: Four Matches To Go

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I will once again use my crude simulation to update the top half of the Scottish Premiership as each set of matches goes by. Celtic 98.8...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Scottish Football: More European Speculation

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Recently I posted some subjective odds for which Scottish clubs would represent the country in next year's European tournaments. As I d...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Geocaching: Slow Winter 2019

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I, uh, found six caches in Winter 2019. So not much to report. On January 7, I was First-to-Find (FTF) on a geocache near me. I've b...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: 2019 European Speculation

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The final four of the Scottish Cup is set, so I will give my subjective outlook on which sides I expect to end up in Europe next season. The...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: 2018/9 Knockout-Round Review

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Well, the knockout rounds aren't over, but they are for Scotland. Celtic got swept in the Europa League Round-of-32, so that's that....
Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Nebula Update: The Falling Woman

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I read a Nebula Best Novel winner for the first time in several years. I also let a couple of years go by without reading that year's wi...
Monday, January 07, 2019

2018 Stay-At-Home Bowl Preview

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It is playoff time in the NFL, which means that as a Redskins fan, I turn my attention to something other than following my team. Yes, it...
Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Geocaching: Quiet Fall 2018

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This fall, I found only 10 caches (bringing me to 424), all in Virginia or California. But some of them were memorable! On September 30, i...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Scotland's UEFA Coefficient: 2018/9 Knockout-Round Preview

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Celtic made it through to the knockout round! Rangers almost did, and picked up a bunch of points in the process. The "neighborhood...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Geocaching: Summer 2018

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This summer, I found 39 caches in 6 states and 2 foreign countries, bringing me up to 414 caches found. I started out the summer hiking wi...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Where's Jon? Irvine Edition

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Can you spot me in this picture from last week's " Conference on open questions in cryptography and number theory " in Ir...
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