Elsenet (as said once in 1995 on The Well, by someone who probably quite liked Bruce Sterling books and had a pile of Mondo 2000 mags) someone was pondering-out-loud (Twitter. It's a poorly-monitised poorly-realised simulation of what having angry voices inside your head all the time might be like. Christ what a bunch of bastards. Jabber jabber oi
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... There's a name for a quasi-Dylan tech/folk LP.
'quasi-Dylan tech/folk' is a long name for 'filk', isn't it?
Buggeration.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrM5gqICRw
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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YrbanNOQ-bcC&lpg=PA67&ots=vgotm3a33k&dq=random%20walks%20in%20science%20friction%20demons&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false
There are pixies in BGP. I know exactly one person who really truly understands BGP -- he's brilliant and great fun but he uses semi-ring theory which most mortals find confusing -- so while he can explain BGP most cannot understand.
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I think there's some stuff in there about bad models, conflation of symptoms and cargo culting, too.
I have many examples.
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This is true of bodies too, as anyone who has ever had surgery will know.
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