Cav's Place

Had thought of adding a few more words to the title this time around, had a slightly different one in mind, but there’s little point in that, or in anything else for that matter. I’m just adding the usual post, at the usual time, now actually writing it at night and posting just then instead […]

I’ll start by pointing out that seeing “A Tale from the Canon of Tarn” leads one to believe it’s a novel that takes place in the setting of an existing series, yet there is no series and this actually seems to be the author‘s first and, so far, only book. And then there’s the fact […]

After starting over and therefore only having two columns in the table a year ago, I will now get back to three, the first covering the entire period between September 21, 2015 and September 20, 2017. The second will, of course, cover the period since the previous post, September 21, 2016 to September 20, 2017, […]

This post’s title lists things in reverse chronological order, but that’s the order I’ll write about them in, so something’s right about it at least. I mean, how could I not start with the fact that last Thursday I beat my record for ten kilometers yet again, this time taking it to 48:04, assuming my […]

Today, the Cassini mission has ended, the spacecraft diving into Saturn‘s atmosphere, transmitting its final observations almost in real time as its thrusters struggled to maintain its orientation for one final minute, before being overwhelmed. Once that happened, the probe would have started tumbling uncontrollably, being torn apart probably less than a minute later. The […]