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Thursday October 7, 2013 Mayoral election counting continues. There were 118 write-in candidates; their second choice votes have been redistributed. This left only the 35 candidates who filed. The 29 who didn't get a serious percentage of the vote will have their second choices redistributed, from the bottom up, till one candidate (almost certainly Betsy Hodges) has a majority. [Update: Winner announced 10:14 PM -- Betsy Hodges]

***Adult Children Anonymous meeting. It amuses me that several times a month, I'm a religious anarchist.

***Paging Marty Helgesen:

"Imagine a future like McLeod's Engines of Light or Anderson's The Long Road Home

"Where there is relatively easy light speed travel between stars: it's not hard to get to Tau Ceti but when you get home a quarter century will have gone by. And let's say the recent reports that [one in five stars have] Earth-mass worlds in habitable zones are right and so within 50 light years there are a hundred or more lifebearing planets that for reasons we won't examine too closely get settled.

"Imagine that there is also a Catholic Church.

How do they handled the Pope issue? One Pope in Rome issuing comments that spread to the scattered faithful at the speed of light?"

http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/4668615.html

***From Publisher's Lunch list of books bought: "Notre Dame MFA grad (and soon to be emergency room physician) Tom Miller's THE PHILOSOPHER'S WAR and a sequel; part coming-of-age, part love story, part literary fantasy set in 1917 and pitched as Harry Potter for adults."

***From Twitter:

Lindsey Mastis ‏@LindseyMastis Would you try it? "Glow-in-the-dark jellyfish ice cream -- for $225, you can have a scoop" http://lat.ms/HHxaQs

ANDC ‏@ozworders The language of criminals on the mean streets of Melbourne in the 1890s. See our new blog! http://goo.gl/ZihE4s pic.twitter.com/RewGEvJZom