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It's not real. Look at the hashtags on their tweet: https://twitter.com/TheofficialBBB/status/1599147586136715265?s=20&t=d5_TLc1tgnFe_uphV60krw The Billionaire Bone Bureau @TheofficialBBB Dec 3 The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'...
Commented on Yokai Land Q&A
This: I draw an eternal golden braid on the back of the door is a Hofstadter reference, right?...
Commented on A Quick Infomercial
@16: If you have patience, it's fairly easy to assemble your own collection ebook out of stories on Tor.com (or other online outlets). Distributing such an ebook is evil, of course....
Commented on A Quick Infomercial
To my great pleasure, I found that I have already preordered "Escape from Puroland". For some reason, I also feel I should mention that I once worked for a company located in the Pureland Industrial Park, near Swedesboro, NJ, USA....
Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
@20: That's like taking comfort in the fact that you're one of a few dozen Jews being gassed together in a Nazi gas chamber....
Commented on Book launches for The Labyrinth Index
I’m late on this, but in the second paragraph after the first text break in chapter one, we have this partial sentence: As a result of my new status as one of the PHANGs—Persons of Hemphagia-Assisted Neurodegenerative Geheime Staatspolizei... (Bold...
Commented on Happy Halloween!
I have to confess, every time I see you mention Transreal Fiction I get it mixed up with Transreal Books, which is Rudy Rucker's self-publisher....
Commented on Taxonomy of story, or, why murder?
I can think of several Arthur C. Clarke stories that have nothing to do with any murders. For instance, The Fountains of Paradise. (Yes, there's a very significant death towards the end, but it's not murder.)...
Commented on I can't keep up
Interesting you mention John Brunner, who also suffered from unstabilized hypertension....

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Moz commented on WTF
But only if the site has less than 2/3rd cat pics....
Martin commented on WTF
That sounds(?)(!) like good news. Yup, I'm once again a member of the Defence-Industrial Complex (OGH probably knows where). I was working for a fintech firm, but they end-of-lifed our point of sale product; and we were pretty much the only C++ dev team in a multinational firm, so it was a choice between "retrain as a Java zek" or leaving for pastures old. I must have souped up my CV quite well, because I was beating inquiries off with a stick - it's rather surreal to do an initial phone screening from a cafe in the shadow of the...
Nojay commented on WTF
Do not torture the statistics for it makes them soggy and hard to light. One chain-of-logic I can envision for the reported excess deaths increase is that the average age of the UK population has spiked upwards due to Brexit, with a lot of younger Europeans going back to where they came from and leaving us old crusties still in place and dying off at the normal (or thereabouts) rate without the tranche of young foreigners to bend the needle in the other direction....
Nojay commented on WTF
Yup, I'm once again a member of the Defence-Industrial Complex (OGH probably knows where). If it's the company I'm thinking of, they were desperate enough to recruit engineers that they had job adverts on the side of the Edinburgh trams for a while recently. It did confuse me for a while since they share their name with a hotel chain....
shanec80 commented on WTF
You know, somewhere out there, there is a market for 'parts'. Imagine being an unintentional buyer from a very intentional seller. You think you're buying a very realistic Halloween decoration and the seller is 'down sizing his collection' (at least enough to avoid being able to compare dental records). A Curiosities Shop I follow on Facebook that deals in macabre. Mostly old surgical implements (lobotomy and blood letting sets, bone saws, embalming kits). A customer wanted a refund because the purchase -- a vial of crushed uranium -- came with a a couple freebies. Namely dental x-rays and a used...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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