Posted in Astronomy, Idle Speculation, Science Fiction, Worldbuilding on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I have to confess that worldbuilding is one of my guilty pleasures. For those without the appropriate nerd credentials, worldbuilding is basically designing a setting for a novel without necessarily writing the novel. Since I do this in a science fiction context, I usually start by taking real stars, adding planets and then filling the details about [...]
Posted in Admin on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
At Zombat it’s a busy week if I manage to put up a single post. That’s not really what I’d call ‘blogging’ so I’m going to try posting at least three times a week for the next few weeks. Some of these posts will be the ‘thoughts on science, philosophy and life’ that the front page promises, [...]
Posted in Food, Personal Minutiae on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Since last month’s trip to Mongolia was so successful, we decided to continue the tour and head to Mexico. We winnowed the choice down to two Mexican restaurants on Melbourne street, Zapata’s and Montezuma’s, and decided on Zapata’s because fewer of us had been there before.
