Well, I was going to write up a thorough account of the rest of the summit, but am a bit blogged out – if you’re interested, see what I wrote about it on the VHL blog. A large chunk of that is my previous post to this blog, so it’s not as long as it looks; on the other hand, I also link from the VHL post to the summit notes on TADA which are long but are also worth a read.
After the summit was over, I spent the weekend in rural VA not far from Charlottesville with a friend named Free who fully lives up to his name. It was lovely; there were three dogs, a horse and many children and friends, open-air fires at night and marshmallows and hot dogs roasted on long sticks. And I got to participate in prepping the foundation for a greenhouse. The air was quiet and clear, and the stars looked alien: I couldn’t make out any familiar constellations because most of the sky was taken up by tall tall trees, it was like peering up through a window to the multiverse.
Meanwhile, some intensely cool stuff is being documented on the net. For example, here’s a Quicktime movie of the Northern Southern lights from space and an .mpg movie of solar activity, both courtesy of NASA.
Also, omigod, a new Beowulf is coming out in 2007 or so, and Neil Gaiman has writing credits. !
Having missed the opening one-two-punch weekend of Serenity and Mirrormask, I’m very much looking forward to seeing both.
As pointed out to Peter – those are the Southern lights. Rar! What with Australia and the Antarctic and everything!
Hey, you’re right! It didn’t even occur to me that they’re called Southern Lights in the other hemisphere. Shame, shame on me!
Speaking of Beowulf, I walked past the poster for this production of Beowfulf http://www.irishrepertorytheatre.com/current_beowolf.htm
yesterday and thought you may be interested (http://www.irishrepertorytheatre.com/)