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It's always neat to run across someone who took an interest in your hometown!

Trees block much of the traditional view of the skyline, but there's a bit of local color in the foreground that I think more than makes up for it.

Found in this album: https://imgur.com/gallery/kNrszsU

I'm re-reading Thief of Time for about the fifth time and Terry's description of a unique sword jumped out at me:

"It had imaginary velocity, negative energy, and positive cold..."

According to the basic equations of physics, of course an object with imaginary velocity would have negative kinetic energy; and of course an object with negative energy would have a temperature on the far side of absolute zero. This struck me as yet another example of Terry's encyclopedic grasp on the subtleties of the Roundworld creeping in and informing the realities of the Discworld!

Help your non-technical friends and family understand the impact of Net Neutrality by posting this on your Facebook account:

The Federal Communications Commission plans to allow Internet providers to charge for access to Facebook and other Internet sites.

If your Facebook client allows, pick a brightly-colored background to draw attention to it.

EDIT: Grabbing non-technical people's attention with a specific example that could affect them is the best way to get them to engage with you - and THEN you can start educating them on Net Neutrality, and why it's important that ISPs give everyone equal access to every port number on every IP address.

In honor of Smirnoff's new ad, here's a reminder that Kansas City's own McCormick Distillery has its own historical ties to Russia.

It's been the bane of my existence for thirty years: if Kansas City makes national media, it's invariably because the KCMO school district is up to its periodic shenanigans. It's been nice over the last few days to see KC getting attention instead for a nosy neighbor's comeuppance and the mysterious murder of a KKK Grand Wizard. Well done, my hometown - enjoy it while it lasts!

I'm re-reading Gordon R. Dickson's "Dorsai!" (for the first time in 25+ years) and am struck by the influence it clearly had on Lois McMasters Bujold's Vorkosigan series. Obviously "Dorsai!" helped establishing the military sub-genre of SF that Bujold drew on in writing "The Vor Game" and "The Warrior's Apprentice," but Tage Lee seems a very clear inspiration for Sergeant Bothari: he is a "borderline psycho" who needs to be in uniform and who willingly serves Our Hero in any needed capacity.

Has Bujold ever commented on Dickson's influence on her writing?