Tonight on the way home I wandered out of the bus-deke and spent some time around "the corner" at the bus stop behind McDs. My odd-thoughts about that corner still seem to feel right. It was good. Not malevolent, just mischeif and a general lack of goodygoodie-ness. So I leaned up against a slanted bus-sign and watched exhaust rise, and people ( Read more... )

Hrm... Hak Nam.

Aaanyways, pulled from a study guide for Neuromancer that someone put online:
"Why do you think male authors so frequently imagine highly desirable but dangerous women like Molly who get devastatingly involved with their protagonists and then leave?"

Good question.

Well, it may be that my annual Winter Gloom faded after the Solstice, as usual. But this week I've had my moments. I read through H G Wells' stuff recently. It was a more thorough run-through of Wells' science fiction than the snippets I've done in the past, and it isn't exactly the cheeriest of reading ( Read more... )

...oh, this thing I keep hearing about a study of Nuns and Aging, and Alzheimers is really interesting. Not sure about that particular link being helpful, though. It's just the first one that came up when I searched. To fight Alzheimers later in life, I should cultivate "idea density", eh? Will do. I'm kinda screwed for longevity, though. Not sure ( Read more... )

From Schlock Mercenary's "Howard Taylor", on not using the bible as "proof" for science:
"I'm not going to use the book of Genesis as a template for a scientific theory. The answers may be in The Book, but we're expected to show our work."

What an awesome quote. Really, the entire rant is good stuff. I especially like that part about flying cars ( Read more... )

This just in: New Garuanteed Non-Corrupting Video Game. It's called "stacker", and in it you stack cardboardd boxes. That is all. "the first-person perspective avoids the problem of players identifying too closely with the main character, whose name is never specified and to whom nothing actually happens." (Go Go Onion)

Something else I found: GAH ( Read more... )

I made an interesting observation recently when talking with my mother. We were talking about Christmas wishlists, and different ways of assessing what we want, and how 'dire a need' something is. I commented that an interesting way of looking at anything you're going to buy is whether (and how drastically) it will change my life. Note, there's no ( Read more... )

Something interesting with the CBC News coverage of the election campaign : they have a series of 'diary entries' from a mysterious insider, read aloud in a slot on the evening news. Basically, they have created a mystery blogger news-cast. Of course, they would nevereverinamillionyears call it that. 'cuz that's what they are trying to compete with ( Read more... )

I've had a lot to think about lately concerning people's 'superstitious' relationships with nonhuman objects. ( How do you feel about your computer? Cell phone? TV? iPod? Car? House? Favourite T-shirt? )