Heinomatic

Heinomatic

  • Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
    I am currently almost halfway this novel in e-book format (Kobo) and the character of Flora gets repeatedly being named Fiona (5 times till now). Enough to make me wonder if it's Flora or Fiona....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Probably not. There weren't many leds used in stage lighting during the mid 90's. Maybe a technician with colorblindness or a resentment towards Tracey Chapman. Or was lazy and used the rig from the day before....
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    Modern led stage lights are getting better at capturing the whole color spectrum. Besides the old RGB and RGBW lights you see more RGBWA lights. (A for amber) I work at the stage as a lighting designer and still have...
  • Commented on Ask me anything!
    Can elves and humans produce viable offspring? What would those be like? When/what was their evolutionary common ancestor? There was mention of the Flores hobbits, I remember....
  • Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
    I always imagined Martin freeman to play Bob....
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    On the other side of the channel, we believe we are ready for any kind of Brexit. 200 new custums officers have been recruited and a whole range of ad campains have targeted businesses to prepare them. The mascotte of...
  • Commented on GDPR compliance notice
    I wonder if the ECHR and GDPR are going to be an issue for Britain after Brexit....
  • Commented on I get book covers
    I remember a time when the illustrator of the cover artwork was mentioned somewhere on the same page as the copywrites etc. Now it's just Crush Creative on the paper cover backflip. They do seem to be channeling James Bond...
  • Commented on New Book Week!
    Finished the book and enjoyed it. Now for some nitpicking: Habsburg in stead of Hapsburg. Hannover in stead of Hanover. The t at the end of the name van Rijnt makes no sense to the dutch (van Rijn=of the Rhine)....
  • Commented on The crazy years
    On the subject of strangely abandoned cars: There was a whole traffic jam of fifties' cars in a forest in Belgium, abandoned by american G.I.'s who couldn't take them back home when their service in Europe was up. So they...
  • Commented on PSA: The Delirium Brief
    So what really happened to Bob in Japan? Wasn't there going to be a short story on Puroland?...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Last figures from the dutch elections: 150 seats in dutch parliament. The PVV of Wilders only got 19. He can boast he's then third largest party but with 30+ parties to choose from it's a hollow statement. So no Nexit....
  • Commented on Sometimes I don't know why I bother!
    The first name that springs to mind is of course Che Guevara. Doctor, traveller, revolutionary in three different countries, minister of agriculture, prison warden and finally a martyr. Although still alive I find Werner Herzog also a latterday renaissance man...
  • Commented on What are you reading this summer?
    Right now I'm reading "A Decent Ride" by Irvine Welsh for a good laugh after just reading the depressing but awesome two first parts of Liu Cixin's "Three Body" Trilogy. Part three should be available in september and I've just...
  • Commented on Updating a classic
    Mandatory training weekends somewhere in the middle of nowhere with themes like "receptiveness", with lots of office related role playing and powerpoint presentations. And the more managers the better....
  • Commented on Maneuvers in the Dark
    Using shotguns on drones lets pieces of drones fall on the people below. In the video they say that they train the birds to take their prey to a safe location. Already are the recorded cries of eagles through loudspeakers...
  • Commented on Inverted realities
    Check out Cymothoa Exigua. A parasite that enters fish through their gills and replaces their tongue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua...
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    I think Castalia House is based in Finland because every car there has the letters "SF" on a sticker on their backsides....
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    The LDS church sends his young adults all around the world to be missionaries for a year or two. They end up in the strangest places. Even here in Eindhoven in the south of the Netherlands. And it seems they...
  • Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
    That would mean that Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace were Adam and Eve? Alan Turing would be Abraham and Ken Thompson/Dennis Ritchie the human/divine entity Jesus?...
  • Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
    It's very difficult to describe why you love something in a way that's not emotional or too subjective. I love all Stross books and would give many of them 5 stars but if I was to explain why, I would...
Subscribe to feed Recent Actions from Heinomatic

Following

Not following anyone

Specials

Merchandise

About This Page

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.

Propaganda