( I'm Flirting With Adding This To The Hackett Continuum Soundtrack. What Do You Think? )

And I have robotech_master to thank:

The NEW HOME PAGE for The Hackett Continuum on Facebook! Since I didn't believe I could accomplish the storyline all by myself, I'm taking the concept to hyperfiction to see if I can get other voices to work with mine in chorus.

I feel like Dr. Frankenstein. Will it live, or just lay on the table?

Got the 1982-vintage Clint Eastwood movie on DVD from the Big Lots bargain bin this evening. Just saw the end of the third act. The effects...have not aged well. The photographic grain is overmuch, the perspectives on the miniatures are unconvincing and they could have been smarter with the interfacing of the elements. But then again, it WAS ( Read more... )

Yes, bombs. The kind they drop from warplanes. Nothing actually exploded, but I did get some exercize defusing a dilemma.

In my research addiction Google-roaming, I came upon an article about the IML Group (a team of aircraft designers in New Zealand at the end of the Seventies) who had created a set of warplane proposals under the name ADDAX. ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm more a fan of games than a gamer.

For the Hackett Continuum, I'm using the program "Under Construction" to write-up machinery used in the setting for Dream Pod 9's Silhouette (Heavy Gear, et al) system. Got two done so far and will probably do more in the coming days.

FP

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This is a postscript to my preceding idea about making the Hackett Continuum as a role-playing game...in the interest of making all ficlet dabblers aware of the paradigm involved, I looked into my copy of a screenwriting book written by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Stracynski ( Read more... )

From the current Air Force Magazine--If the Cold War went "Hot" in Europe...

"We were expelled from Paradise," wrote Franz Kafka in The Blue Octavo Notebooks, "but Paradise was not destroyed. In a sense our expulsion from Paradise was a stroke of luck, for had we not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed." Do those ruminations strike a chord in you, Sagittarius? I hope they move you to turn your thoughts ( Read more... )

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