(Do pardon the title: I can’t seem to curb my cynicism over the upcoming Presidential election.)

I’m attending the final talk at AI/GI/CRV/IS/LMNOP 2008.  The speaker, a division chief at NASA’s Ames Research Centre, just claimed that by 2015 or so NASA will have replaced the Shuttles with “new vehicles”, capable of making routine trips to not just the ISS but the moon, and later to Mars.  Now I’m watching a video detailing the concept.  That is cooler than a bottle of tequila riding a motorcycle.

In other local news, whatever Windsor gives away in coffee shops it more than makes up in bars.  There are some really good places to drink just a few blocks from campus.  Decent food, good atmosphere, and a wide variety of reasonably-priced beers.  This is the sort of thing I miss about Edmonton.