My life, on the other hand, is not interesting

[cleolinda]

No more stories from Sister Girl as of yet; her flight home isn't until something like ten o'clock tomorrow night, so there's still time for her to report a few more shenanigans.

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[particle_person]

Speaking of the Difference Engine, have you read about Lady Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, Cleo? She'd be a great steampunk character, but I'm sure it's been done.

[cleolinda]

I think it was--in The Difference Engine, a steampunk book I got for Christmas and haven't read yet.

[particle_person]

She programmed for Babbage's machines, but unfortunately didn't get to see her program run owing to the 120 year gap in building her computer.

[cpip]

GURPS: Steampunk has an amusing althist where she marries Lord Byron, keeps him from getting killed in the Greek Wars of Independence, and then the two of them get named King and Queen of the newly-independent Greece.

[ciara_belle]

Confirmed: No Plans for Chronicles of Narnia After Voyage of the Dawn Treader

*sniffle*

Ok, I knew they were never going to make my favorite book into a movie, but still. *sniffle*

[particle_person]

No, it's not that bad, actually. No plans just means no plans, not that they won't consider it. It apparently depends on how well the next two movies perform.

[eofs]

"In three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today."

I find that laughably implausible when said in a UK context. I mean, right now only 3% of the country can receive 8meg broadband. We, in a good sized town, are so far from the exchange that our internet goes out when you sneeze.

Try peddling your scary story in a country which has advanced beyond wind-up internet, Mr AT&T Guy.

[kvschwartz]

Maybe he meant "centuries" rather than "years." Or maybe he said "twenty" when he meant "two hundred million."

At any rate, he was clearly stoned.

[foresthouse]

Awww. Poor Dan and Emma shippers. They will be forever sad. Hee.

Oh, also, the orphan works thing is still showing up everewhere. It's on Boing Boing now. There are a lot of misconceptions, which annoys me because I think the Illustrators Partnership and Mark Simon are so woefully uninformed and/or biased that whatever they write amounts to scare tactics. And in important issues, informed debate is so much more important!

I posted about it again - since my paper is so damn long, I went and cut and pasted the most important part for current discussion. In case you are still interested.

[cleolinda]

Yeah, I saw--I'm definitely linking it.

[foresthouse]

Sadly it's still a loooong post, but I did try to make it bearable. :)

[wirrrn]

I am pleased for Seth Green. The circle is now complete *g*

David O' Russell: Cerebral-Pyro-Lycanthrophic-Best-Boy Disease. Otherwise known as Boll's Syndrome *g*