Gym log, Wednesday 27th Sept 2017

Weigh-in: NA

Benchpress: 3x5 at 60kg, 3x8 at 60kg, 1x5 at 60kg
Squats: 5x5 at 100kg
Overhead press: 4x5 at 20kg
Lat raise: 3x10 at 8kg/arm
Leg lifts: 4x10
Suspended leg raise: 2x5
Attempted pullup (hah): 3

Rowing: 2km in 10:35

Octocon, Ireland, 6-8 October

I will be attending Octocon next weekend. These are the panels I will be on:


Beyond the Hellmouth

Saturday 17:00 - 18:00, Salusa Secundus (Camden Court Hotel)

What makes a convincing fictional hell? Is it the uptempo singing or dancing or must it be personal and bespoke? Should moral relivitism define your eternity and isn't it possible to get used to anything eventually?

Lynda E Rucker, Peadar Ó Guilín, Dr Allen Stroud, Fionnuala Murphy (M), Dr Liz Bourke


The Art of Shipping (Free Shipping With Every Order Of The Phoenix) [18+]

Saturday 21:00 - 22:00, Salusa Secundus (Camden Court Hotel)

From characters on tv shows to countries to fast food restaurants to Kirk and Spock, everything seems to have ships now a days. Why are fangirls / is everyone obsessed with shipping?

Sakura Perez (M), C E Murphy, Diane Duane, Dr Liz Bourke, Ms Wendy Fries


Shapes of Family & Relationships In Genre

Sunday 12:00 - 13:00, Salusa Secundus (Camden Court Hotel)

What would be the shape of a "traditional" family off the surface of this planet? How do relationships work on a spaceship or during early planetary colonisation? What would be the economic incentives shaping family life in space? From Heinlein’s line marriages, the alien / human sexual partnership in A Long Way To A Small Angry Planet, multi-parent families in for example The Expanse, how have these questions been explored and how have the ideas stood the test of time.

C E Murphy, Paul Anthony Shortt, Mr Russell A Smith, Fionna O'Sullivan (M), Dr Liz Bourke

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I still haven't bought my membership, because I am a broke freelancer and also slow. Sigh.