(And to all the other engineers/maths people out there: I'm sorry for any misconstrued reputations I have caused for Quaternions, and yes they are wonderful and good, but you and I both know the true horror of this universe is trigonometry and gimbal lock, and I am not gonna get into that here)

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On the plane to NYCC! If I don’t come back, avenge me!

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I’m writing at the library before my event, and there is a gentleman at the next table who is clearly having a bit of an episode. (It’s fine, that’s part of why libraries are awesome.) I bring this up because he just yelled “If you drive a Tesla, you’re not worth my time!” into the aether.

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Had a fantastic talk about mycology with the awesome Daniel Winkler to benefit Clarion West. Could have peppered him with questions for hours but presumably he wanted to go home like a normal person. He gave me a container of chanterelles!

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As was noted elsethread, we have antibiotics and general anesthetic, which puts us massively ahead of most of history.

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