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[john_x]

I finished 'Infinite Ryvius' the other day. I have to say I was luke warm about it at first but I ended up really liking it. It's far from the typical "high schoolers in space fight evil" and more along the lines of "people in power often screw up, even when they have the best intentions." Also, they do a good job developing the secondary

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[gardenprophet]

Damn! And here I was hoping that you would come back frm the past with brillant insights to give us all.

PS> you have my sympathies.

[john_x]

Actually, I'm really happy to not be in the past. It turns out that the past actually sucks pretty bad. Though the linked article refers more to the distant past than to the "ten years ago" past, it's still valid. The "ten years ago" past is long enough ago to be ancient and scary to us tech users anyways. :shivers at the thought:

Excerpt from linked article: "Hey kids-the past wasn't like a trip to Waikiki: the only sure thing about the past is some ghastly disease, carnage, toil that defies all description, starvation, and boredom of a sort that makes waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles seem like Disneyland on heroin."