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Trust me, that's a real word. In fact, it's the official name of the official podcast of Skeptic Magazine. I mention it because I was just a guest on show #131. Swoopy, the host, asked me excellent questions and I talked on and on and on.

If you'd like to hear that, head on over to Skepticality now and download and/or stream to your heart's content. If you're not reading this in late May, 2010 and I'm no longer front page news, you can click on the "past episodes" link and you'll find it in the archive.

While you're at it you may notice that I also joined Derek and Swoopy in #036, back in October, 2006. But listen to the episodes featuring James Randi, Phil Plait, and folks from Mythbusters instead. They're all better than mine. Trust me. 

I've let the Turing script mellow to its full flavor consistency for a month, and am now heading into the rewrite stage. Meaning, I'm sure the flavor is not quite right yet.

In the interim, besides doing the normal things that make up normal life -- day job, paying taxes, seeing family, etc. -- I read 13 novels and story collections, 2 non-fiction books, and 4.25 (I'm a quarter of the way through Urasawa's Pluto) graphic novels. And some magazines. I think I can consider my mental palate cleansed.

Of the fiction, the best were a collection of stories by Peter S. Beagle called The Line Between and Feed, by M.T. Anderson. In non-fiction I found The Voice of the Crystal by H.P. Friedrichs inspirational and fascinating, and though it didn't count towards the tally above because I haven't finished it yet -- not even close -- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin is great so far. On the graphic novel side of things, I liked Raina Telgemeir's Smile and Hope Larson's Mercury.

I also watched the fifth and last season of "The Wire". Like many, I was a little disappointed with it since, unlike the previous four seasons, which were brilliant, this was merely excellent. I'll probably watch the whole thing again, from the beginning.

But first, a return to Alan Turing's life, discoveries, inventions, and secrets.

Yesterday I finished the first version (version 1.5 is probably more accurate, since I did extensive rewrites and polishes along the way...) of the script for "The Imitation Game", and the following video showed up on the Make blog:


It's that kind of world sometimes; meaning, wonderful. You can learn more about this amazing project at Mike Davey's site. Now I'll spend roughly a month trying not to think about Turing or his work. (I'll fail.) Then, round two.