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• Commented on Spoiler Thread
  Loved the book. Stayed up late to finish. Re Spooky: There is a not too uncommon condition known as polydactyly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyl_cat) which imitate a "cat with thumbs". Is this the case with Spooky, or are we talking actual opposing thumb...
• Commented on Vacation
  There is an IMAX theater at the KSC. When I was there earlier this year, they were showing a tour of the ISS given by the crew and helmet cam videos of both repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope. All...
• Commented on The Singularity Is Further Than It Appears
  You said earlier, "computers are also speeding up rapidly, roughly by a factor 100 times every 10 years. Do the math, and it appears that a super-computer capable of simulating an entire human brain and do so as fast as...
• Commented on Sitrep
  Yeah, they're blue. What about it?...
• Commented on Commercial announcement
  Rats, I think you just sold me three more books. But: I have the first six autographed, and now I will never rest until you have autographed the new ones too! BWA-HA-HA-HA!...
• Commented on Commercial announcement
  I have the original six books, but I have only read the first book. And liked it very much. I have always enjoyed paratime works, and this is a very original example of the genre. I just have had too...
• Commented on Commercial interlude
  Could it have been that since Bob had read Lovecraft's letter and the knowledge of the encounter was in his memory, Shub thought he was Lovecraft? Also: was the "Robert" the letter was written to not the Robert Howard of...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
  Is ATHENA doing projective identification?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: 419/Rule 34
  I've read and enjoyed Rule 34 twice, and now it looks like I need to read it again, with a new understanding of ATHENA. Does an ATHENA-style state of non-self-identifying/selfhood projection occur in humans, possibly as the result of brain...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  RATZ! Sorry, I misunderstood. Thanks for letting me know....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  Ever since I finished "The Golden Globe" in 1998, I've been waiting for the next novel in what was clearly a trilogy. I'm VERY glad to hear that the last novel is coming out. That said, I haven't been able...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
  Lobsters grabbed my attention like nothing else I have read, before or since. For the next few years, I checked every edition of Asimov's SF to see if another installment of the saga was coming up. I still have those...
• Commented on Fang Fuckers: some reflections (in a mirror)
  Does a blood donation count as a blood sacrifice in the Laundryverse? If so, is a blood bank a massive power source for some entities? Or maybe destroying a blood bank is a massive blood sacrifice?...