Cav's Place

As the rating suggests, and despite everything I’ll say past this point, I definitely liked what actually was in this book. However, what’s missing from it would be enough for another Song of Ice and Fire. Even worse than in the first volume, potentially important characters are barely even mentioned and secondary ones may be […]

I have to wonder, why do major sites that are also available in the official language of the country they detect you’re in automatically switch to it, regardless of your preferences? For example, lately I see YouTube switching my location, and the site version I see, to Romania instead of Worldwide every so often even […]

Today I finally managed to do the last part of a couple of small things I had been meaning to do for about a week, but I’m embarrassingly behind on pretty much everything even for me and I also just realized a couple of days ago that the main non-personal post I’ve been toying with […]

While I currently see no particular reason to subscribe to certain conspiracy theories that have been floating around over the past few days, the immediate response to the event, as well as past experience, makes it clear that certain elements are now overjoyed at being able to use the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombings […]

Yesterday’s announcement confirmed what is by far Kepler‘s best discovery to date: Kepler-62f. The release also mentions six more planets in the two announced systems, and while Kepler-62b, c and d, as well as Kepler-69b, are in very tight orbits and therefore scorched by their stars, Kepler-62e and 69c are also in their stars’ habitable […]