Month: March 2005

I don’t often do this…

..but I thought the ordering here was pretty funny. Apparently the scores were so close that the system had to ask me a tie-breaker. If I were just a little more self-confident I would have answered the tie breaker the other way, and apparently then instantly transformed into Anton Levey. (I wonder what test would return if taken by, oh,… Read more →

Motion Picture Mail

For some reason, I’ve been getting rather a lot of video material in the mail this past couple of weeks. Mostly non-fiction stuff, with one notable exception. And since I’ve been backed up with work and sickness, I haven’t really had a chance to catch up on it. But I thought I could share some of the stuff with you… Read more →

I amuse me

I have a pretty excellent job. In one meeting today I threatened to feed a coworker to the pigs, and he correctly identified it as a Deadwood reference. There would have been much hilarity and cursing, Mr. Wu stylee, except for the presence of one humourless fellow. In another meeting I responded to a particularly dumb statement with “Have you… Read more →

Another shotgun post

Lots of short takes, to get rid of a bunch of things I have bookmarked in my “to blog” folder. * Ken Macleod is one of the most recent wave of bright lights of British science fiction. He’s also possibly even further left than I am. He keeps a blog (named, I might add, for an Oysterband lyric, whether that’s… Read more →

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