Literal LOL

For those in the know, Doug just got a delivery of 15N20, 1085, and powdered 1095. Yea!

My next book

@gvbsea.bsky.social I actually went and filled up my truck and my jerrycans yesterday. Tomorrow I'll take the bowser in and fill that.

My scheduled posting of the link for AWA doesn't fit the global mood of the moment, but I'm going to check it off the morning's to do list anyway. Perhaps a diversion into fiction is just what some of us need at the moment.
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There's a tiny, essentially insignificant, chance that I over did it with the hydraulic cylinder for my new forging press.

Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files, Epstein Files.

Small Sashimi and utility knife.

Fresh from the forge, a custom order for a kitchen utility knife that could also be used for sashimi. Blade is high-carbon stainless with a scalpel bevel, handle is reclaimed remu, carved to nearly round with a small indexing indent for the forefinger, underneath at the very front of the handle.

The Squishinator 75T is refurbished and back in action.

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They should have a loser's playoff for the top pick in next year's draft. The bottom 4 teams play off on two successive Tuesday afternoons at a high-school practice field in a dentally-challenged region of the south. Winner gets the top pick.

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As we count down to Festivus, I feel compelled to remind you that the gods of capitalism will know if you've ordered the book and will posthumously judge you.
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Yes, as soon as it goes live on the Con Website, I'll post that link. Will take a couple of days.

World Con 2026, Academic Track, Call for Papers is now Live.
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Yeah, I've been analyzing US politics for 40 years and I have never seen underlying numbers like we're seeing now.

Fargin Iceholes YouTube video by Alan Petersen

Suddenly, this has become my favourite quote from Johnny Dangerously.
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Hey Chuck, my kids are big fans and would be over the moon if you gave their radio drama podcast a listen. It's a whole new genre, Customer Service Dystopian Satire. Cheers. Doug
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Episode 4 of the kids' podcast just dropped! I'm writing Ep 7 for them right now

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My poster at the Penn State SETI symposium

Pics from our first day of #WorldCon! @dougvanbelle.bsky.social and I did some panel pinch-hitting with "Finding Exoplanets and Extreme Solar Systems", and then two interviews for our "Life in a Universe Full of Exoplanets" podcast with Larry Niven and Rebecca Demarest

Worldcon 2025. This is the most magnificent convention space I have ever seen

For those of you with kids at WorldCon, I'll be bringing some copies of my young reader's book, which is almost impossible to get outside of New Zealand, to my Autograph Session on Friday 10:30-11:30. Free for kids.

Gotta say, that makes more sense

Oh Great, you did something with the word Television in it, now all the Chinese Journals are going to be hounding me about Astronomy stuff and you about Media Studies Stuff