This year I sort of meandered my way through books, mostly at random, reading whatever took my fancy at the moment ( Read more... )

If you have clicked on the Google logo today, you know that it is L. L. Zamenhof's birthday. When I was in my 20s I did the whole Esperanto correspondence course. It was fun! I was lead down that odd path by Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat novels. I guess the late 19th century dream was that if all humans spoke the same language, then ( Read more... )

1. The Rats of NIMH vs. The Bunnies from Watership Down
2. Makuuchi Sumo Wrestler vs. NFL Line Backer
3. High School Shooter vs. PCP Deranged Axe Murderer
4. Victorian Rat Catcher vs. US Border Patrol K9 Unit
5. Monster truck vs. World war one battle tank

Other than emergency/post apocalyptic/zombies are now attacking scenarios and actual human to human real time conversations, it seems that it is now much more effective to store most of what one knows in the cloud, and instead keep in the level 1 and level 2 caches that knowledge the lets you use the cloud more effectively ( Read more... )

Gropecunt Lane. I have got to use this street name in a D&D game sometime...

So, if you love the idea of pirates vs. ninjas, etc. there is this show called 'Deadliest Warrior'. They run computer simulations of match ups like 'Pirate vs. Knight', 'Yakuza vs. Mafia', and 'Shaolin Monk vs. Maori Warrior'. Way cool, though I confess to just watching the synopses on line ( Read more... )

I thought I would post the list of Hugo Winners that I have read (struck through), just for the heck of it. Please see the caveat regarding Nebula Winners in the post immediately preceding this one. Also, I did not include the retro hugos. Ooops. Well I have read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradburywhich was awarded the 1954 retro hugo in 2004 (I think ( Read more... )

They have announced the winners of the 2008 Nebula awards ( Read more... )

Why doesn't American Idol ever have a Satan night, god dam it!?!?

craptracker update

18:44 sitting at my computer twittering, something like a migo, only a migo would hover unnaturally while plugged into a bank of brains in jars.
Another happy textual moment in the self imposed panopticon.