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Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
PCW...? Now there's a blast from the past! (but a pleasant reminder)...
Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
For a little upbeat reading in all of this, Steven Van Zandt's rants and snarky responses to brexiters on twitter, at least made me laugh (ie. they didn't make anything better, but they made me laugh. He says all of...
Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
What will happen in Northern Ireland if neither BoJo, nor Varadkar plans to police the border betweek Ireland and NI? Will there be a flow of people going in, using this as a gateway to the UK and sponge of...
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489 #492 Pity about the Skjold class: it is currently being planned to be axed because the F-35s will cost too damn much. (Of course, if the Norwegian Navy keeps losing frigates to tankers, they may have to rethink...)...
Commented on Whoops Apocalypse!
If we're doing "fast attack boats", how about the Swedish "Stridsbåt 90"? At least one of the Norwegian ones have been fitted with a "Kongsberg Protector"....
Commented on Ask me anything!
Why don't the castrated elvish Magi just regenerate their missing body parts?...
Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
Is May really a xenophobe...? The impression from the other side of the North Sea is that she originally was a bremainer...? I have no idea why she stays in what has to be a thankless job, though. It could...
Commented on Server upgrade coming
http://www.accelerando.org shows up empty (actually as "403 Forbidden"). And it's running debian, which is good, and apache, which is... dunno, kind of 2012...?...
Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
My condolences!...

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Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
JBS @554: That's not a real round-about, it's got stop signs at every entry point. Sad, isn't it? I'm still doing the good work of being an ambassador for the idea of proper roundabouts, and the real obstacle is basically an attitudinal one, not wishing to commit to the concept....
Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
FWIW, the second listing of 'Vallejo' was intended to be 'Benicia', which indeed is, and certainly was in the 1840s, an even more deadly-dull wide spot in the road than Vallejo is/was. The State Capital building in Benicia is quite beautiful, albeit improbably tiny....
D. Mark Key commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
For what it's worth, I hate roundabouts, and I'm actually pretty good at driving through them....
P J Evans commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
I remember reading about the San Jose era - it was something like the Saloon Capital. (There's a historical park with buildings, or rebuilt versions, from the period. Never bothered to go there, though I did visit the zoo once.) People forget that the state capital moved around a lot in the first decade....
Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
P J Evans @564: I remember reading about the San Jose era - it was something like the Saloon Capital. So it was. It helps in interpreting California's post-Mexican history to realise that heroic imbibing was historically about as important to state legislators as it is to BBC announcers. On a slightly related note, I like to regale visitors to my somewhat sleepy bedroom-community-and-rural-areas county (San Mateo Co.), occupying all of San Francisco Peninsula south of the S.F. city limits, about the county's origin: Originally, it was the southern 80%+ of San Francisco County. When the city fathers set out...

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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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