Time keeps on slipping into the future

[magid]

And at a faster rate tomorrow night, when we push the clocks ahead one hour. Or does that mean everyone stops existing for an hour?

In a couple of weeks, Brandeis is hosting an arts festival, including theater, music, improv, a film festival, and more (complete schedule). Most of the things are free to cheap, too. I'm likely going to a couple of things, but haven't finalized which; if anyone is interested, we could coordinate.

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[queue.livejournal.com]

Wow, lots of stuff there. I might be interested in tagging along for some of the free stuff. I haven't been getting much culture lately.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Are there any things that are particularly interesting (or not)?

I think the bulk of stuff is April 15 – 18, which for me means that I'd be going to stuff on the 18th, or possibly the evening of the 17th. There's other stuff after that that might work, too.

[queue.livejournal.com]

Remind me to take another look at the schedule when my neck isn't hurting.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

There's an interesting notion, the "timeslip", introduced in the Red/Green/Blue Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. To synch up the slightly-longer Mars day with earthly schedules, every night at midnight they just stop the clocks for thirty-nine-and-a-half minutes.

There are some interesting social aspects to that...if I recall correctly, things that happen during "timeslip" don't really count when the clocks start again.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea. Strangely enough, there was an article on NPR just last night about the difference in length of days between here and Mars, and how it affects people working on Mars Rover missions.

Are the Robinson books worth reading?

[queue.livejournal.com]

Are the Robinson books worth reading?

I think so. You're welcome to borrow them.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This weekend, if I remember.

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Are the Robinson books worth reading?
Yes, I enjoyed them. They drift during the series, though. The first one ("Red Mars") is mostly tech-based, having largely to do with the mechanics of terraforming Mars, with a parallel political track.

But to get continuing characters over a plot which takes as long as terraforming, he needed to introduce life-prolonging treatments. By the time we get to "Blue Mars", the book is mostly sociology about the societal implications when a subset of the population is essentially immortal.

I've got the set, if you'd like to borrow them.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Interesting shift. I tend to be more interested in sociological aspects than technology, myself.

Have you read The Sparrow and its sequel?

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. Should I?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Excellent story telling, all around.

Plus, there are no other books about which one can say "Jesuits.... in... spAAAACE"!