2009 Redux
Working today. (What, you thought I took Christmas off work? Hardly — but I've been lying on my back panting for the past week, having finished the first half third of "Rule 34", and you've got to go back to work sooner or later ...)
Meanwhile, unearthed from the archives for your delectation, here are some of the more significant of 2009's 147 blog entries for you to marvel at (or mock). Feel free to poke me via the comments ...
- Dr Strangecraft, I presume? — on the intersection of existential horror and humour (or: what I write)
- Preventing the new dark ages: start here — or, why I hate proprietary file formats
- Technology timeline — a head-trip through 25 years of consumer-electronic revolution, measured in terms of my age
- The art of being late — why it's really hard to stick to a schedule when you're writing a series of novels
- The 21st century FAQ — what it says on the tin
- Halting State has come true — we can all go home now
- Antisocial networking — Why I don't do Facebook or LinkedIn or ...
- LOGIN 2009 Keynote: Gaming in the world of 2030 — some guy who doesn't play enough games bullshits too much
Actually, that's just the first half of 2009. I'll get around to the back end of the year tomorrow. Really must see about bolting that non-fiction book together ...
From someone else who's (kinda) working today, Season's Greetings and thanks for all the reading fun.
Merry Christmas, Charlie.:) I do get the day off! Tomorrow, I get to put out Valentine's Day stuff & say "No, you can't return it, because we don't sell those here.". Maybe, I should have suggested the Joys of Retail in your previous Topic?
Happy Newtonmass.
Happy whatevers! We did our delayed solstice celebration yesterday, so today is just no-stress relaxing. 's been a good year to look back on, meaning not necessarily while it was happening.
CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN WITH PURPLE SPOTS & YELLOW STRIPES?
Just an errant thought ....
Dark Ages - which is why I WON'T go for supposed multi-purpose gadgets that do neither job properly. And try to use APPROPRIATE technology - which may be very old (by present standards). For instance I keep my camera and my 'phone separate. And I won't have a TV in the house.
Technology timeline ...
Good camera at age 14 - able to take good pics of STEAN locomotives! We were the first house in our road to have a TV (1953) and the first to discard it (1978?) Working with REAL core store - an IBM "mainframe" taking 80-chars-per line FORTRAN IV input.
Decent record deck very late.
First HOME computer 1995, mobile phone 1997(?) ...
21st C ... Unless we are very lucky, the islamist fascist nutters wil let off a nuke in Tel Aviv (or even Jerusalem, given their millenial tendencies)
Ditto rising sea levels, because Big Oil are paying the louder "Skeptics" on AGW.
"Halting State" - well, yes - and the comments about "Tales from the WHite Hart" redux in another thread.
Gaming in 2030. Uh?
Ahh it's been a grand year in your blography.
Happy Festivus.