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Weekly Roundup · by Cameron Reilly

TPN Weekly Roundup — 2026-10-10

From Cameron

Hey folks! Well it was my 56th birthday yesterday. Thanks for all of the gifts you sent me, your generosity is overwhelming, but really, as I tell Ray every week, the only gift I need is your never-ending love and devotion.

I spent my birthday doing 5 hours of kung fu in the morning and early afternoon, then went to pick up a leg of lamb to roast and made one of my sourdough loaves. Hunter came up for dinner and a game of chess and then we had our normal breakfast this morning because it’s his and Taylor’s birthday today.

Every year on my birthday I like to thank my mother, without whom I wouldn’t be here. My dad’s been dead for 25 years, so he’s not around to thank for his contribution.

I feel lucky to still be around at 56, four years older than my dad when he died, and I’m in the best shape of my life, with the body of a Spartan warrior and the peace of mind of a Zen monk. Married to the love of my life, three great sons, and I get to read books for a living. I’m very lucky indeed.

My Thought For The Day

He stepped up to one of the reporters. “Suppose we, take you as an example. Your name is Rogers, is it not? Very well, Rogers, you are a space-time event having duration four ways. You are not quite six feet tall, you are about twenty inches wide and perhaps ten inches thick. In time, there stretches behind you more of this space-time event reaching to perhaps nineteen-sixteen, of which we see a cross-section here at right angles to the time axis, and as thick as the present. At the far end is a baby, smelling of sour milk and drooling its breakfast on its bib. At the other end lies, perhaps, an old man someplace in the nineteen-eighties. Imagine this space-time event which we call Rogers as a long pink worm, continuous through the years, one end at his mother’s womb, the other at the grave. It stretches past us here and the cross-section we see appears as a single discrete body. But that is illusion. There is physical continuity to this pink worm, enduring through the years. As a matter of fact there is physical continuity in, this concept to the entire race, for these pink worms branch off from other pink worms. In this fashion the race is like a vine whose branches intertwine and send out shoots. Only by taking a cross-section of the vine would we fall into the error of believing that the shootlets were discrete individuals.”

Life Line, Robert Heinlein

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