This past Monday and Tuesday I was at the X Prize Foundation's i2i conference at the United Nations. I was one of the volunteers, along with my ebuddy @SAZorak and a handful of other folks that I hadn't previously known.

Slightly under 2500 words. DEAL WITH IT. I'll probably extend this later, but it doesn't have a title yet.

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So I've been a bit out of my regular rhythms and that's impacted writing every day. In fact I've failed to do it for more than a week! This is no good. While I'll have work to deal with now, I've instituted a new policy whereby a block of time will be set aside for this writing practice each day. It'll be at the same time, even.

The futility of self-improvement has been long acknowledged - at least, within my own particular branch of epistemology. Regrettably it has not spread much beyond that domain, or at least as far as can be proven. I do believe that a handful of copies of my works have been purchased but I suspect that my associates may be trying to assuage my feelings.

Jeez, give me some slack. It is finals week after all. A big paragraph for each day that I missed, and two extra ones.

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The death of a starship was a thing far more dignified than the passing of a man. This was so to a degree commensurate with the greater scale of its life. Men fought men and famine and disease and time. They grew infirm of mind and body and too prideful to admit that until the abject terror of their closing moments if they even saw their doom coming.

Didn't do anything yesterday because I wasn't at home. I'm making up for lost time.

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A bit late today.

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This is by far the best show I've seen in a while (though New Getter Robo was good, also), and the screencap sums it up perfectly. Why didn't I watch this sooner? Beautiful animation, great character design, adorable wordplay, and wonderful music in the OP and ED.

My life has had the ground pulled out from under it and I couldn't be happier that it's happened, or with my decision to cause that upheaval by my own hands and my own force of will. I imagine that many of you will understand where I am coming from: like many hardcore Internet users I spend more time wrapped in its ethereal embrace than I do in the concrete clutches of the real world.

"It seems to me, sir, that you haven't got much of a chance to sell wares that don't work whether they're on sale or not."

"Really? Isn't that just the mindset of you groundhuggers, an implicit value judgement on your part?"

He winked mischievously. The other fellow raised an eyebrow, paused a moment to think, then spoke with a slightly raised voice.

I hope you'll all tune in! I'll post recordings later.

On a hot planet dawned a hot day that made the sapients dwelling there thank their lucky stars that they were sealed away from it all in great tombs of concrete and glass. Inside, there were monitors and filters and ionizers that kept the ambient temperature tuned to Earth-standard and stifled any unintentional life whether it was micro- or macroscopic.

I'll be taking part in a debate at Central Connecticut State University tomorrow as part of that institution's philosophy club. I wouldn't ever want anyone to visit Connecticut for anything short of life-saving surgery, so I'll spare you all the trouble by streaming it live. I'll also post recordings some time after the event.

He had always been a most irrational fellow prone to flights of fancy that would take him from one side of the country to the other in pursuit of the most ephemeral of concepts and ideals.