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Yeah, yeah, james_nicoll...I know the projects will move forward as fast as they will and no faster. The pace still annoys me.

Anyway, a happier note to go along with news about Chang'e 3, Mangalyaan and Yutu: ESA's Gaia astrometry mission is going to launch in less than five days. I'm looking forward to the future consequences for mapping out our galaxy, particularly as the range of accurate measurement is expected to extend out to 30,000 lightyears from Sol.

(Trekkers, Babylon 5 fen, Legion of Super-Heroes and Green Lantern Corps fandoms: please take note!)

If you want to keep an eye on its progress, the Gaia mission has a blog of its own.

Notre pays, c'est l'hiver...

The song may have been intended as a Québecois separatist anthem, but it still works for Canada as a whole. At least, for today. The wind chill around this town was pain enough this morning to walk to the local mall for grocery errands as it was.

Add in the winter storm warnings provided by Environment Canada for tonight, and I've more than enough grounds to keep as close to home as possible.

So...fiddling with the web and Adobe Illustrator and looking for the Vulcan equivalent of Microgramma Bold Extended this afternoon. I've got a wordmark here I'd like to translate, you see...


Apologies to the people at Bell and Boeing. Seemed like a fun idea at the time and still does.

More on fiddling with graphic design and con-langs

FInally re-read the zun manual closely enough to remember where to use a "sfek" glyph rather than a "pakh".