Cav's Place

Been focused on New Horizons lately, following releases, posts, comments, answers, briefings, and also doing my best to help a little by answering as many questions as I could on the mission’s Facebook page. I still have the team’s latest reddit AMA to go through, and I plan to do just that after I post […]

Today is World Population Day and I’m again frowning when glancing at that text: “As the world population edged to 7 billion people in 2011 (up from 2.5 billion in 1950), it has had profound implications for development. A world of 7 billion is both a challenge and an opportunity with implications on sustainability, urbanization, […]

The court date was yesterday and, to start with the most important part, I won. Or, more exactly, the Gendarmerie lost, as they were the ones who appealed the original ruling that determined the fine had been unjustified, and the appeal was rejected, the decision being final. This means that, a year, eight months and […]

Been several years since I last read a book translated in Romanian and several more since the last such translation that wasn’t nonfiction, plus that I was barely a teen, or perhaps even yet to cross that threshold, when I read the rest of the series and some other related works, back in the ’90s, […]