Although I’m spending Canada Day weekend in the US (at this conference at the NASA Ames Research Center), I’m still celebrating my country’s birthday. On Friday night, I went to Kells pub in San Francisco for the “Canada Day in San Francisco” celebration, organized by the Canadian consulate (and I also stopped by the Apple […]
Another article about the firing (as it turns out) of California Air Resources Board chairman Robert Sawyer — and what a handsome devil he is! Hee hee hee. At least the Pat Murphy they show farther down in the article isn’t the SF writer by the same name … :) The Robert J. Sawyer Web […]
That’s how I feel here at the NASA Ames research centre. The conference on THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE COSMOS is going really well. I moderated the session on cultural evolution today. Dinner was at a wonderful Chinese restaurant called Chef Chu. I sat next to Marvin Minsky, from MIT’s AI lab. Also […]
