Other Swierczynskis in the News: Robocalypse Edition

Like many writers I know, I have an automatic Google keyword search thingy to let me know when anyone's talking smack about me on the interwebs. A few days ago the name "Swerczynski" popped up as a character in a video game called Robocalypse: Beaver Defense. I thought, okay, this is a joke. But it isn't; shit's real. And one of the characters is named "David Swierczynski." Here's a summary from IGN.com:

DAVID SWIERCZYNSKI
The smoothest Environmental agent this side of the Love Canal, David Swazzu- ,Swizerr-- , er.. Swierczynski… is a man on a mission – to stop industrial polluters in their tracks! His finger-pointing is aimed directly at Thermidoom, and he could do his job if that pesky Beaver wasn′t always getting in the way...

That pesky Beaver, indeed.

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Other Swierczynskis in the News

According to SpaceRef.com, a distant family member was involved in the ground-breaking detection of a astrophysical radio jet from an outbursting dwarf nova. And God, do I wish I was smart enough to understand the significance of that. But here's the skinny:

Stanislaw Swierczynski, a variable star observer in Poland, was the first to detect a possible outburst of SS Cygni on April 24, 2007. Within a few hours observers in Canada, the United States, Norway, and Finland provided the confirmation that an outburst was indeed underway.

Note: This very well may be a different Swierczynski from the one who was all up in the stars, binaries and cataclysmic variables. Yes!

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Other Swierczynskis in the News

Apparently, Polish land is more expensive than German land. “There is an intense thirst for land in Poland. "We currently have a 315-hectare farm in the vicinity of Bojanów for sale. I wanted to divide it into allotments of 30 hectares each, but the farmers want them to be of 5 hectares each,” says Dariusz Świerczyński, deputy manager of the Wielkopolska branch of the Agricultural Property Agency.

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Other Swierczynskis in the News

E. Swierczynski and colleagues, working at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland, report on stars, binaries, cataclysmic variables, and whole bunch of words and numbers I can't possibly comprehend. Sounds cool though, doesn't it?

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