Lunch with Pascal, band
Dec. 12th, 2003 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayToday... had a long lunch at Clarke's with Pascal, who is back from the Univ. of Tennessee. We talked about how the past few months had gone for each of us, Monday's DAME meeting, next summer's field season, and upcoming publications. I'm writing a paper on my Haughton Crater geomagnetic survey for a special Haughton science issue of Meteoritics and Planetary Science that he and Oz will be editing. We talked about putting together an exploration technologies collection and proposing it to a different journal, with Pascal and I editing it.
Then, there was a new project that we hatched... hence the hamster question, earlier. Lots of drawn-on napkins. And finally, I mentionedgeekchick's review of Bob Zubrin's new book... he asked for my advice on how to proceed. I haven't read it, myself, so I couldn't help much. I suppose I should, both to be able to advise Pascal and to defend myself (apparently I'm mentioned somewhere, grr).
Tonight I took the kids to James's holiday band concert... a throwback to my own band days when they played the "Star Wars" overture (shades of 1977, again). James did well on cymbals, tympani and bells on various pieces. David and Kevin showed only limited interest. Pat was at a deanery meeting in Palo Alto.
Then, there was a new project that we hatched... hence the hamster question, earlier. Lots of drawn-on napkins. And finally, I mentioned
geekchick's review of Bob Zubrin's new book... he asked for my advice on how to proceed. I haven't read it, myself, so I couldn't help much. I suppose I should, both to be able to advise Pascal and to defend myself (apparently I'm mentioned somewhere, grr). Tonight I took the kids to James's holiday band concert... a throwback to my own band days when they played the "Star Wars" overture (shades of 1977, again). James did well on cymbals, tympani and bells on various pieces. David and Kevin showed only limited interest. Pat was at a deanery meeting in Palo Alto.
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Date: 2003-12-12 07:58 am (UTC)*laugh* Gotcha. =) Of course if say that you're mentioned in it, I will now have to go look through it more closely, but that will have to wait until after I finish "Quicksilver"; I'm afraid if I put that down for something else I'll lose any momentum I might have and not get back to it for a year.
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Date: 2003-12-12 07:13 pm (UTC)