THE (ALMOST) UNDELETED

A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :shock: Wait a minute. I calculated you at 42 the other day, Omph, when we were talking about that Prince song. Guess one of us was off. :P I was talking to a friend of mine the other night and moaning about getting old and she told me, in all seriousness, that 50 is the new 40...

I think I've forgotten to mention that I saw the newest "Raiders" movie on the plane back to the States? It was probably the first thing I've seen him in; or at least, in which I was mindful of him (knew who he was, cared either way ;) ). He seems adequate, but I don't get what all the rav...

:o Whoa. So...what's piss taste like, then? ;) (I both love and hate the show. Seems like he always chooses the most ridiculous and dangerous path available (all the while saying, "You wouldn't want to do it this way," or telling you about how some hapless fool died last summer in Yellowst...

Now airing on Discovery Channel: I'm BARE GRIMES and I've just parachuted completely naked into the heart of the Serengeti, where I will be forced to survive until I can find my way back to civilization using only my WITS and this trusty SWISS ARMY KNIFE! If necessary, I WILL DRINK MY OWN URINE AND...

Oh...gawd....

I HAVE to see it!

But that Zeitdammerling (whatever) guy is writing the script, no?

Ugh!

Queeck, Thang, hide dee feesh! Der Bear ist heeeer!

Friday, October 3, 7pm Books & Co At The Greene 4453 Walnut Street Dayton, OH I don't think I've been to this particular store before. But I'll be going over and staying with friends in Middletown before returning to Japan and will scout out the area beforehand. :twisted: I brought my "Chi...

So Shawn is part of that site, too, huh? (That was the user name on that one YouTube video I found of Kevin at Comic Con. Hey, Triumph was at Comic Con 2008, too. Too bad he didn't run into Kevin...A GOOD AUTHOR FOR HIM TO POOP ON!!!

)

Suvudu...Suck Up Videos something something something?

TOO funny. But too bad that you had to let them off easy. I have no such relationship to preserve with the book store in Dayton. :twisted: (I'm comin' for ya, Kevvy. Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! I think I'll take along the copy of Hidden Empire he sent me, have him sign it again. That'll really increase its eBa...

Huh. I'm usually fairly sensitive to stuff like that, but this one didn't bother me at all.

Who knows.

Nothing scares or surprises me anymore.

I'm unphasable.

Well, we all know what pile I have on the pile at the moment, so this is just an update of pile contents! I was surprised to find, in the Borders in the Barboursville Mall, English translations of two of the GitS:SAC -spinoff novels I've mentioned previously: The Lost Memory and Revenge of the Cold ...

I'd watch it.

Oops.

DON'T READ MY POST IN THE OTHER THREAD!!!!

Finally saw this last (Sunday) night.

I quite enjoyed it.

And my appreciation of it only intensified when I watched The Mist (with its shit ending) Monday morning.

*** WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! *** Finally watched this on DVD this morning. Enjoyed it well enough until the end. WhyTF did the idiot screenwriter/director (who is this fook again?) have to end it that way? If I remember correctly, the novella ends with the main character (Drayton?) writing th...

Has to have been one of the worst trips back yet, so far.

Adversity just makes me bitchier.

OK, quiz time!

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(Hint: Authors on tour...be afraid. Be very, very AFRAID.

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I live about 65 miles from the uni. I learned at my previous job that if you live in the same (small) city where you teach, you keep running into students working part-time jobs and you end up with everyone knowing where you shop, who you were out partying with, etc. I prefer the commute and my priv...

Ahp.

(My sense is that it's more like, "Yep, I know exactly what you mean and agree completely!")

A friend from Wolverhampton used to say it all the time (in jest), and I'm pretty sure I've heard it on TV shows and in movies. Haven't looked into it, but I've always assumed it comes from something like "Happen that it did". It's an affirmation, so far as I can tell. I take it I should a...

I popped by there last night and noticed that FantaPoop had popped up again and posted some images without comment. He seems to be taking his clues from the lead of that other great Heespanic member of DN, arnoldolt. Choose your heroes wisely. :roll: Edit: Just went back and checked; two images: the...

Thank you for that perspective, arDoltômas.

(Just keedding! Heere, have feesh! c=< ... Well, sort off looks like feesh.

)

Ampoliros wrote:We need more stuff (legal stuff) that turns ON your mind.

Ahp, of a surety.

No picts for now. (But I think there's an old one of me playing something over in the early posts on the Blogger Hairy Ticks....) Did piano lessons for about six years because my mom made me and my sister and I REALLY hated it. Later I wished I'd worked harder. I inherited my mom's old Baldwin that ...

I rather enjoyed Pitch Black myself.

The sequel sucked mightily, however.

Hmm...It's a been a week or two since I went over and tried logging in with "Bitch" and "ScrewYouBitch".

Yawn.

Best to just write this one off. 'Keen ain't coming back.

And with the current Nob as Naib, who cares?

But there was someone named Nejibana at 'Keen, right? Become...something else here? Something to do with feesh?

"Screwed Banana"?!

That can't be right.

Welcome anyway!

WELL DONE!

(I'm going to rehost this one as well and post it over at MySpace, if it's OK with you. I'm trying to create a fan base for you over there.

)

10,197 AG Four Years After the Fall of Shaddam IV So many lives within me, so many voices! A lifetime would not suffice to listen to them all ! —Paul-Muad’Dib Atreides, Meditations of an Emperor Night had come to Arrakeen, replacing the searing bedlam and broiling clamor of the day with something of...

We've just completed and uploaded for your listening...pleasure(?)...a new podcast containing another excerpt from Paul of Dune. (My copy of the UK paperback arrived this morning!

)

http://radiofreearrakeen.hairyticksofdune.net/

Fabulous answer!

I remember hearing about it, but haven't seen it. I also remember having problems with the title, literally "Ged's Battle-Tale (or Record)". :roll: First off, Ged was his secret name. Second, it should be rendered Geddo . Third, why the focus on battle? I have a poke around later and see i...

(I wish people would stop using the ridiculous "OHers". It's Orthodox Herbertarian. There's no fucking "-er" anywhere near the end. Just another indication of how language impaired some of them are.

)

Omphalos wrote:Talk about fantastically water-fat!

Ouch!

That Hurt.

:lol: Nekhrun, did you post this one? This is the second shirt I've ordered due to a large hairy horny woman tearing it off in a wolf inspired sex romp (clearly not consensual) "Large hairy horny woman" sounded like someone we all know up North...but you more biblically than the rest. ;)

Was that the frog said, "Riddick...Riddick"? :lol: Haven't seen any ads for it over here yet. Maybe even the Japanese will find it too silly and pass. Nah! :P I think Hancock just started playing yesterday, btw. Have been seeing a lot of ads for it. :roll: (Heard the rumor that Berg was se...

You mean Wawence of Aquatia, right?

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck...it will probably eet feesh!

From the user name I expected someone of Southeast Asian extraction.

HEY!!!

I found out about the plane crash!

Posting over on Jacurutu in a little while.

Nah, it's fine. He just needs to add the "BSP" fine print.

Takes over five hours for LIGHT to travel the distance.

Yeah, that's the kinda "closest" I meant.

They've just started showing a mini-series(?) over here with him and Sam Neil, about the Bermuda Triangle; have just caught the first episode so far. Yeah, The Triangle...saw it last year. It's well done, but the end sucks a bit... ^^^ Man is a MASTER of understatement. ;) I saw the final episode a...

Let's see, can we recast this stuff so it's BALANCED, SOPHISTICATED, and POINTED? Balance: Brian's a Luddite technophobe, a REALLY SHITTY WRITER and usually looks like he's totally out of it, BUT he's also evidently a loving husband and father and a very gentle man who never kicks small furry forest...

Is Omnius's fear of "unpredictable" travel methods your own little jab at Brian's "irrational" fear of flying? THAT would be too funny, wouldn't it? :lol: (Author's Note: I don't besmirch Brian for fearing to fly, if I almost died in a plane crash I wouldn't set foot in them aga...

(Cute.

)

Yes, but not in a LONG LONG time.

And obviously never to the same extent as some of you.

Kevvy and 'Becca were there.

Ugh, that's right.

And we're all just jealous because HE'S the one that gets to write Dune stories.

Such a grip he has on reality.

A six, huh?

So how does that translate temporally?

Are you fabulous 14:24 hours each day? Or 4.2 days each week? Or 31.2 weeks per year, perhaps?

How does that work, exactly?

Ah, yes, the famous lightspeed engines.

100,000+ years to cross the galaxy.

And the New Synchronized Empire was HOW far away again? On the other side of the galaxy? (I mean, the universe.)

Feh.

I'm being as generous as I can by buying their books.

To rip up.

Figuratively.

Kevin has blahgged on MySpace that he has finished "writing" his half of Jes' Icky of Dune . If he started "writing" at the beginning of August as he wrote he was going to back in July, he finished it in less than a month. And considering the various Cons he's been at this month,...

Owh. OK.

Nope. Was just teasing him (again).

I mean, how could someone be FABULOUS 24/7/52 and NOT have flair.

Vaguely sick-making.

I LOVE it.

Nice, GP.

Keep it up. You'll get your DN account deleted yet!

Hmmm?

I just had a look at KJA's MySpace page and noticed this for the first time: http://us.macmillan.com/CMS400/uploadedImages/TorForge/Non-Menu_Items/paulofdune.gif That's hosted on the Macmillan website. Um...nobody has ever "conquered the universe" in any Dune-related book. Somebody JUST DO...

Definitely.

THIS thick.

Viscous.

And glistening.

And don't even let me commencer on the smell.

(But you know that rotted fish soy sauce the Thais use? That's just suggestive.)

Ah, flashy animated GIF-induced epileptic seizures...what stupid bitch does that remind me of....

Hulllllllooooooooo!

Hey, ChaniLuv! Sorry, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for a link about those construction deaths.

(Gawd, I love to hate her. This can't be good for my health!

)

You really think it was the legs? I assumed it had to do more with her prolapsed vagina. (Hype's box, sounding much like Bette Midler: "That's it, Soph. If I ain't gonna get any action stuck between these hairy slabs o' flab, I'm OUTA HERE!") She had to wear trousers to keep the nasty thin...

Dahlink, how could you NOT have flair.

PASS THE HAT! PASS THE HAT! HARASS THE HACK! PASS THE HAT!

I'm in for sponsoring Freak and Eru. Anyone else?

Does that mean we have here fallen below butt-head radar?

Is that a good thing?

And thus you fail to grab the pebble from my hand, Grasshop...er, Sandwormy-thang. You must cultivate the flexibility of Word Mind that allows you to absorb without thinking the linguistic peculiarities of our Tongue Brothers and Sisters across the Big Pond.... :P What the hell thread was this again...

Eyes High wrote:Does that mean I won't be able to come back?

You's goooood people.

You gotta stick around to hold off the ole fire and brimstone. You know, that whole Sodom and Gomorrah shtick.

YES!!!

FREAK! FREAK! FREAK! FREAK!

Anyone who DOESN'T like it is dysfunctional.

(You know who I mean.)

Ahem. ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense [hamper, impede] ): from French embarrasser , from Spanish embarazar , probably from Portuguese embaraçar (from baraço ‘halter’ ). Now...to be brutally honest, I'm glad the damned things are over. (Are the summer games the REAL Modern Olympics or the Money...

I don't think my CON qualifies as CHRON yet.

Mandy, have you thought about hiring her out? Sounds like she's more accurate than the National Weather Service.

So, in other words, it's kinda like the new "Dune" books, then?

Geared towards little people with short attention spans, I mean.

Huh?

I thought it was by host-board time as well.

I demand a recount!

(Explanation: When Jacurutu started up, the Ethnically-Origined Village Idiot—Fantomas—keep going on and on and on about it. When he wasn't taking potshots at Mandy.

I like to think of Yellow Bouncy Bouncy Weeeeeeee as a proof against idiots.

)

You're kidding, right?

33 pence plus (and I'm guessing on half of this next) packing & postage.

Whaddaya know, being an Anglophile actually does come in handy sometimes.

Yea!

That's what I been aimin' for!

maybe

CHRONCON!

Omygawd.

Ooh, ooh! I know the answer to the second one!

It's a FantyAss Repeler!

(Thang, I'd have to go back through the thread to check!

I think I read the short stories before UoW....)

Since I've been medicatin' for da pressure I seem to get blocked up a lot more often. I probably been constirpated more this last year than I was in any of the previous twenty. The screams and talkin' to Jayzus tend to ruin the reading experience, y'know? ;) [Rate my posts! Too much or too little in...

I read and really liked the first of those, but the ending kinda pissed me off for some reason, so I didn't go after the other books at that time. Something I've been meaning to get back to.

Reynolds has a new book out now or soon, right?

Oh, my.

On Kaitain under Muad'Dib, life for those of us in the harem of the former Emperor Shaddam would appear to the casual observer to have changed but little. However, the real changes were profound. We were much greener, for one thing, recycling our skimpy silk outfits—which never really fit my ample ...

Finished Matter this morning. Wow. :shock: Yes, enjoyed. :D Quandary: what to start on next. I've finished all the Culture novels now. I have his other "Iain M. Banks" scifi works, but maybe it's time for a weE change. I'm thinking Dune , by Frank Herbert. Just to have everything fresh, fo...

Oh ja?

Pieces start to fall into place, make sense....

You heard they're coming (ahem) out with a new one for Xmas, I assume?

Actually, I'm not suffering.

Save LOTS on not having to go to the barber anymore. Bought me a pair of electric clippers and cut it myself. ChiggerBint trims out the uneven bits if I ask nicely.

Snarking. That's what she calls it. Or spamming. Maybe they're the same thing. Whatever.

And it's more a case of her crawling OUT of his ass to comment. Or breathe.

The "closest to intelligent" among a bunch of blithering idiots is still pretty stupid.

Oh, yes, there IS that. :roll: But unlike us she has an open mind and is flexible enough to admit the New Crap as an "alternate Duniverse" and actually discuss various possibilities and outcomes there. You have to admire that about her and her "beautiful mind", no? The physical e...

No, this is a special project.

It's a secret.

Sort of.

Haven't read any of her fiction yet, so this will hopefully be interesting.

(Copied it into a text file on da machine. That webpage design is annoying.)

I've been a bit leery about reading her since looking into Láadan.... Ultra-femme rhetoric tends to give me hives.

Duly downloaded.

Now just to find the time to read.

Might take a bit more time... I'm fixing to switch over to a new suite of graphics software (StoneWorks). I'm fed up with the Macromedia/Abobe software registration/authorization bullshit. It's good software (should be, costing an arm and a leg) but when it fooks up it bends you over and screws you ...

It's pretty damned sad when arnoldo's posts read as the closest to intelligent, no?

Um...that's from back at the end of March. I think Dunenewt posted elsewhere when they announced the signing of the contract for Jessica through Leto (which is when they announced the last; it hadn't been mentioned before that). Here's the post: Topic: UK and Commonwealth rights signed for 3 more Du...

Or "Bad Bints in Bondage Bordello" or ...

Hiya, howaay'all, whass'appenin'? Sorry...I got home kinda late last night and just crashed. And it being generally shiteful weather over here again today, I spent the morning reading and snoozing in bed. :D 1:00 in the afton and I've had me a blueberry bagel (couldn't be fooked to actually go outsi...

Eyes High wrote:

Translation:
Eyes High: OH MY EYES! MY EYES!!!

Paazelav mai y-aas.

And NOW on BBS 1... No users active over the past five minutes. FantyAss: The spice prolonged life. Even the pope would do it. Well, you know what I mean. OneEyedPantsUnicorn: the pope does not fear death! BoredAdmin: I'm gonna vote for the world's sexiest athlete! FantyAss: I was approached one tim...

I'm sure Thang only knows....

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Ee's no reelly about jou anymore, mi muchacho. Ees more about how mucho I enhoy dees seely accento!

Oh, jes, señorita, can I hhhave anodder pees of feesh? Oh grassy ass!

HHHey, wade a menudo...dees ees no feesh! Dees ess salaMANDero! Ai perdito! Chihuahua mama!

"I swear I never exposed myself to that boy. The way he says I did. ... It was more like this...."

Well, I'm deriving a GREAT amount of pleasure at seeing just how shitty and low-level it has become over there.

Arny, Fanty, NudeFussBuster, Hype...it's a perfect abode of idiots now.

Actually...he ees a feeshy salamandancha!

Thank you, thank you. I've been meaning to join the Elgin newsletter but haven't gotten 'round to it yet. I did join the Conlang mailing list and have registered at some conlang wikis here and there. (The mailing list is REALLY active. I rarely get through all the messages.) The "FH language an...

Cheers! I'll have a peek when I get to the office later. (Faster looooooad times!

)

Edit:

Have had a look at a few. Cheers again!

^^^ I'd vouch for some part of that.

Just not sure which part....

Tanks, Omph. You're a mensch!

Joya Havlah, nice ta see ya!

(Don't ask. I'm up 15 minutes and it's a weeeeeird morning already!

)

Really?

I found it comforting in a weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird sort of way....

Why, you're just a teeny tiny leetle thang, aren't you! :) Here's one from around the same time. He doesn't have as much now. As much what now? Lifting power? Alien vegetation lurking in photo backgrounds? Picket fence to still put up? Facial hair? Hair on top?! :shock: If it's the latter, tell him ...

Omphalos wrote:...the worst hole I can find.

Oh, I just wish everyone would stop talking about Hype and move on already.

On the old PowerBook I had a mammoth folder entitled "Arrakis Dune" in which just about everything Dune-related ended up in. I've copied it over onto the new machine and have been dividing the content into a more rationally organized new folder hierarchy. Among the interesting files that h...

(He has a stepson, Rebecca's by her first husband, but no others that we know of. The son may be one of the guilty parties responsible for those hideous ani-gifs on the MySpace pages. No idea if he has aspirations of being a writer.)

Has anyone found ANY mention of ONE GOOD REASON why Kevin's name is associated with this new movie at all? I can't remember if someone has brought it up on one of these boards yet, but Teg and I were talking about this again the other day and he mentioned inclusion of "New Dune" material a...

You, Sir, are a bouncy bouncy weeeeee enigma.

(I'm going to quietly slip away...before this becomes truly embarrassing.... slip)

Dood, I'm down with it, like, it's happening. Wow.

That the hip you meant?

I hear Hypochondia is looking for a job. :lol: (Sorry...I need to work more on my own site at the moment. Besides, haven't you heard? I'm not trustworthy. :lol: ) And sorry, too, I missed the board crashing over your way. It seems like everything that can break down this year is, so I've been kinda ...

I rule.

Second place.

Maybe you should recommend some to Byron?

(I imagine they keep a close watch on the stash in the ER, though.)

Hmmm...good question. I still haven't gotten to the electronics store to pick up a new thinking machine for home use. Am planning on doing so this afton. Should be all set up with essentials copied over by evening. If the stars align and our schedules match up, we're doing a podcast tomorrow. (If no...

But we should be used to that as typical HLP behavior by now.

After all, they have made it appear Sadworms has a 3.5 or better rating over on Amazon by deleting several tens of one-star reviews.

It's all in how you edit reality!

Oh, orald...er, I mean, Omph.

Everyone should just stop posting over there, sockpuppets included.

Let it die.

(Which means, let it become the abode of ass-kissers they seem to want it to be.)

How 'bout let's not and say we didn't even consider it. Besides, he wouldn't join a board like this or even Jacurutu. Where's the status in that for a preeking Preeq? (And you know he does whenever he gets email from or talks to Kevin on the phone. And he actually comes himself when they meet in per...

All about The Player of Games

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Worm, if you have FTP access to your server files, it should be an easy enough fix to just edit the input field to allow for longer captcha(?)/confirmation codes....

Hey, Pardot's back! :D Just logging in to say (before the damn thing freezes up again?) that I'm having video card probs with my PowerBook and probably won't be posting much or taking part in the crashing at Worm's. :( Futzing with the idea of going and picking up the cheapest iMac I can find. See y...

GamePlayer wrote:Dude, I've probably registered on more forums than everyone here combined.

I know. That's what makes it somewhat amusing that it's happening to you.

But, really, I do feel your pain. (I remember being irritated when I first joined that I couldn't post links to sites or images or anything.

)

And all 11 of those Toronto holds are TAZ.

You, Sir, are a disgrace to webizens whirled-wide!

Best thing is always just do the minimum to get registered and then go back and fill in the details later.

Hindsight is...

A vision of male deer or lookin' at yer butt in a mirror.

Sorry to double post, but...OH GOD! 5. Kevin J. Anderson is a member of the Co$, aka the Church of $cientology. One of the many values that the church expoUses is the value of family. There is nothing wrong with valuing children, especially young boys. Kevin is not trying to ram Co$ values—or anythi...

EXCELLENT catch, Tanz! That "Manifesto" cries out for a parody rewrite in Dune(Novels) terms! :twisted: (And true, while none of us have hacked the DN site, there were accusations being bandied about by certain cretins during that site's rather long downtime earlier this year...which event...

Finished Inversions (nice!), have started Matter . Fun. :D (Some new weird aliens to play with, the usual close-to-human crowd.) The writing doesn't have to be repetitive and simplified just because the story is action-packed. Banks isn't the best writer in the world, but he sure as hell blows you-k...

Do you really think Brian had much to do with this? Omph...how did you find the excerpt? I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the usual places. Interesting that it's Macmillan making it available, no? Why aren't they doing samples this year? Did we make such fun of Kevin's foray into podcasting, an...

This is WONDERFUL. :D I don't know about you lot, but I'm in SEVENTY-SEVENTH TICK HEAVEN this morning! :lol: LOVE the Victor reference! I think we agree that this is going to be the pattern for these books, right: they'll slip in tons of references to their own books (like little non-existent Victor...

I don't know that I see that so much as evidence of Byron-virtuel having been possessed by or actively channeling Kevin as maybe someone feeding him the links. Now...who do we know that is a master of links to silliness all over the Web? arnoloco, perhaps? That would explain why Byron was blowing hi...

Yeah, but whoever that Dominos is, has handed him his ass BIG TIME.

(I wonder if Hyppo and arnoloco were curled up in there at the time?

)

Yep. Take the Mind-operated ships in Banks' novels, cycling up and down through two flavors of hyperspace. Pure bollocks! :D But I buy it, because Banks' is a WRITER, and can juggle the jargon in such a way that it lulls to sleep the nasty little impy thang sitting off on a stool to one side perving...

Wasn't there something, too, about drawing a parallel between the sound barrier and the "light barrier"? (Yes, movement through a the fabric of spacetime itself is exactly like movement through a fluid physical medium. :roll: ) OK, sure, I'm not a physicist but I have done a bit of reading...

NOT if that particular whatever-quel was THE BEST THING THEY'VE WRITTEN SO FAR!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: God, Byron is such a joke now. OK, I'll read Paul of Dune and see for myself, but I just can't imagine that they improved that much over the few months between when they finished Sad...

Let me call you sweeeeetheart:
I'm in LOATH. WITH. YOOOOOOOOOOU!

Just another loathly day in Paradise....

I'm getting a timestamp says you posted that seven hours ago. What'd you go with?

(Thanks for the info, Mandy. Will put it on one of my lists....

)

Are you saying it was over the top, then? I really can't tell anymore.... :( Dude, over the top is a monkey fucking a football while getting diddled from behind by a man dressed like Barney while listening to Michael Jackson's thriller. Rob Um...OK, Rob, if you say so.... :shock: Things are a bit.....

Are you saying it was over the top, then?

I really can't tell anymore....

Hollywood...my heroes!

Taking things wonderful and grand and...turning them to shit.

LOVE it.

Oscar Wao? You mean the Irish guy they locked up in Reading Gao?

I was just on the phone with Teg and he nearly hung up on me. :shock: This is a first. Usually it's me threatening to hang up on him. All I was doing was relating my vision... Of Green Cow going out into her yard butt-nekkid to commune with Mother Goddess and Sister Moon and perform a fertility ritu...

Anyone thought any more about this since the last post (in mid-February)? Any reason to think FH was proposing some sort of soul in connection with Duncan's memories of all his lives/incarnations? (IMHO, if you're going to admit souls and such to the Duniverse, you may as well just let in all the pa...

Oh, bubba baby! I'm not ganging up on you with that mean ole nasty Star Dust! I'm just...gently tweeking you, to get you to express your full potential. A big guy like you, you must be full of something, and I prefer to think of it as potential ! :lol: What Chiang do you recommend for a beginner, bt...

Pooh. I'll be sure to spoiler it for you!

(Kidding!)

Inversions is getting fun(ner). Looks like there are two Culture characters, as I suspected. "Prime Directive" quandary issues.

Join a moribund board (sorry, RobinH, but them's the breaks) 'cause the only other one that will tolerate your nonsense is a PR tool...another swift move from FantaPôp! :lol: I think I just counted coup on Green Cow Without Hope of Calves over there. ;) Poor dear, still relatively young and yet alre...

Ooor, aren't we the tetchy one today.

Did you ever get a copy of Matter yet?

(Huh? Los? As in "Lost me on that one".

)

(Ugh. The coconut was even worse than the mint julep. Ended up not even being able to drink it. Was doing some house-cleaning last weekend and came across an old box of Indian incense cones. Lit one up while I was sorting through some old papers and I swear the tea tasted like that incense smelled. ...

Could be, sounds good. Cannae prove or disprove it by me, though.

I thought you'd posted about this as well. Oh well. Have you seen this trailer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGs3_1qKl34 Kinda fun. Love the segue, "...into space...." ;) (What's that song, and who's it by again? :shock: ) Hmm...and the music in the second half is Philip Glass, right? (T...

No new information out there, I take it?

(This one won a Nebula.

)

I've got some things by him waiting in my SF wishlist on Amazon. All things in time....

Yeah, someone tell that little shit again to get his misspelling butt over to Jacurutu.

I've only read a few of the posts.

Nice run.

Omph, it looks like that YouTube clip is from a BBC interview promoting the Lynch movie. See this http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eodyssey/Quotes/Popular/SciFi/Frank_Herbert.html for the attribution of a quote of the part about charismatic leaders. Also see http://www.lynchnet.com/index2.html for a l...

Laugh now, Kimowasabi. Bleh. Liver-horseradish? Where'd I come up with that?! :shock: Or Kirin with this: "Kirin, from the Kitchen of the World: Mint Julep Soda. Inspiration from Cuba. Grapefruit." And that's exactly what it tastes like: someone chewed up some peppermint and then spit it o...

War stories and records and that sort of thing were never that big a thing in my family, so I assume that means there wasn't much (good?) to talk about. :? My maternal great grandmother's second husband fought at Château-Thierry (and possibly earlier at Verdun as well), but he never would talk about...

The Hack. I like that. :D Back in the office today. (Haven't heard anything different this morning yet, so Teg should be on his way up for...lunch with obscene amounts of coffee and maybe a...PODCAST!) Have already set Inversions and Matter aside to take home tonight. :) EDIT: Seems I was having a n...

Mastah B has pointed out in a comment on my blog that this is probably the first time the HLP has endorsed a review claiming that one of the new books is better than one of the originals written by Frank. We should have expected this kind of shit eventually from Kevin, but to have it posted first by...

Fortunately the Japanese I watched the fireworks show with last night (great BBQ, too! :D ) are all my age or a few years older and have a better grip on the world and history. Well...sorta. The family whose house we were at are MAJORLY into fengshui. The man works in construction and gardening and ...

My mom wouldn't let me watch it when I was a kid. Which of course made me want to all the more. :D They were showing it on one of my satellite channels over here a while back but I didn't get to catch many of the episodes. Always LOVED the ball thingy. (Bouncy bouncy AAAAAAGH! :shock: ) What was it ...

And not really knowing a lot about the background of the war and some of the things their countrymen did during it, a lot of them wonder why Japan was attacked, and why so many Chinese still hate them, when all Japan was trying to do was to defend Asia from Western Imperialism! Europe has its Holoca...

Like an overripe dingleberry? NICE! :D Since I'm out of Banks for the moment, have been making do the best I can.... Remembered I hadn't yet finished all the stories in Dan Simmons' collection Prayers to Broken Stones , so I polished off two or three more and then read another twenty pages or so of ...

GamePlayer wrote:Perhaps I should visit now, if it's safe to do so?

Might want to wait a bit, unless you want to see a pic of Kevin starring out at you from between two bumcheeks.

Something that I've wondered about more than once recently is how this history is taught in Israeli schools. Here in Japan, MEXT (The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology...isn't the acronym clever? :roll: ) provides the primary and secondary schools with a list of approv...

Strike my blog, will you?!

That'd be a first. I don't think you've ever commented there, have you? Love to have you drop by!

(OK, Charlie, run the clip of the mushrooms with "Smile" playing in the background!)

(Neither did I. I'm just humoring him. You know how sensitive they are up North. Especially this one.

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Kevin has of course posted the same "review" over on his MySpace blog...so it'll be appearing on DN as soon as Uncle Mike can get it up. Text is identical to what Byron posted...so again I ask, why are they posting this "uncorrected proof"? They're so desperate to portray this st...

Well...definitely not the last two words, eh?

I see we're going to be seeing a lot of that, eh.

(Had to look up shtok. That'll come in handy.

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The best part about that book is the list of ship names in the Culture. Buahaha. After finishing Look to Windward last night, I wonder if it wasn't the book you were thinking of in this comment, Ragabash, instead of Excession . There were a lot of ships named in Excession , of course, but in the la...

Don't bother, the effort and the result would be wasted on her.

For some, a continuation of life in their current state of stupidity is a far worse punishment than death.

Thanks, Phaedrus. Ah, Frieda Murray...I think I recognize that name from one of the Amazon reposts of "professional" editorial reviews. Hang on... Got it: from the full page view of Editorial Reviews for Sadworms: From Booklist By the time of this second volume of the third Dune prequel tr...

True...but some Anglophile hearts still beat true!

(Umph! I think mine just skipped a beat.

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Could you repost it here for those of us who don't feel like trying to get around Byron's petty little blocking of our IP addresses? TYIA!

Um, I mean one of my remaining Indonesians.

A Garam. Not a Nebby or anything distasteful like that.

Sure that wasn't grapes and figs?

Seriously, how about a sura reference?

I assume you would back up a claim about the Jewish or Xian scriptures with a definite chapter and verse reference, yes? Kindly do the same for the Koran/Qur'an.

Yeah, I did, actually.

I'm probably gonna backslide.

(Dayum...everything sounds like gay slang this morning.

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Freakzilla wrote:Don't forget about the drugs!

Ahem:

Oh, OK, it's not enough that he's an off-white crypto-Muslim, he also has to be secretly gay AND a drug fiend?

That better?

(Sorry...I thought "smoking crack" was some gay slang or other.

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I could really go for a fag right now.

Oh, OK, it's not enough that he's an off-white crypto-Muslim, he also has to be secretly gay?

This is going to get really stupid really fast, isn't it?

There are times when it's difficult to be proud to be an American.

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