Scott Sanford

Scott Sanford

  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    what's funny about BETTS & TWINE LTD It's probably rendering "correctly" on your browser, and it's a reasonable guess that computers doing the smart thing is what let the name get through in the first place. Try reading it this...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    ...has Charles Stross trademarked “LaundryVerse™”...? Interestingly, on the topic of registering things with governments, I recently happened across the fact that the UK will allow a fairly broad range of characters in company names. Which was no more than an...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    I assume there is a "mistaken beliefs about addresses" list somewhere. There exists at least one list of lists of mistaken beliefs about addresses. Ouch, and oof, and I'm not even surprised....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    About 10% of the code did about 99% of address validation and the other 90% of the code dealt with the 1% of weird exceptions that were complex to manage. well, yes - but that's to be expected. It was...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    So we had the same kind of "your town can buy its own war machine" thing with tanks as that article describes with Spitfires. (It's more accurate than our local paper's recap of the tank fundraising a hundred years on;...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    You may think that you can correct "Wahsington" to "Washington" but then you discover that wellactually the former is a town in Durango and now what do you do? There's a town in California named Eureka - and another one...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Going back to the original topic, a friend claims that someone has proposed a "Dune Experience" ... ... a warehouse with a pile of sand containing a couple of earthworms. There's a photo meme going around to this effect, of...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    This calls for a lawsuit with ChatGPT legal briefs. How about legal arguments delivered in verse by a Greek chorus of lawyers in green wigs? Wonky doodles, fiddle dee dee, We have a lawsuit waiting for thee; Wonky doodles, fuddle...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    "How did you do that?" These people will keep tech support employed forever....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Back around the turn of the millennium I was told with a straight face that children don't need to waste time learning spelling and grammar because spellcheck and grammar-check are now built into word processors. On that subject, did you...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    22M live in Mexico City... what happens when they go dry? That's far too many millions, yes, but the Valley of Mexico is not an inherently unreasonable place to live. I read that it was pretty nice back when the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    the hacking of teleoperated cranes (and other equipment) is simply cyberpunk/hollywood/tech-bro mashup for the current decade It is a thing now that large modern ports are not the docks inhabited by rough burly men that one sees in mid-20th century...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    ...If you’re sufficiently cool you can do miraculous things, so one of your character stats is your cool score. What’s cool for the character differs by who and what the character is, so a rabbi, a Jain monk, and a...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    ...and I forgot my point. Voting by people not at the meeting was brought up then (see video Friday 4a) and it wasn't easy to pull off then. I'm sure Kevin could lay out the current state of proposals to...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    ... I was at Spokane in 2015. It was not thinly attended. Indeed it wasn't! You wouldn't remember me, but you saw me at the time if you ever looked behind you; I was in the back, up on the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    ...he might convince the GOP to endanger its tax-exempt status by bailing him out. Did you hear that the previous Republican National Committee leader is out and the party is now being run by Trump's daughter in law? (Apparently they...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Before the Chengdu fiasco, I would have thought Ben Yalow too smart and/or honest to get involved in something like this. But then, I've been relying on his rep in fandom rather than personal knowledge. I'm not close with Ben...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Those Otter boxes apparently have a permanent, lifetime guarantee. As far as I know I am unique within my social circle - I've actually had to make a warranty claim on a Pelican case. (It slipped off a chair and...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    FYI, I currently have a latest model top-of-the-range iPhone... Not all new iPhones are there as status symbols. I'm reminded of the time I noticed that several people I knew had very large vehicles - and this is in the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Then it turned out he'd taken the same attitude to the rules of structural engineering. The extension fell down. A month or two later, half the rest of the house fell down too. I am reminded of the Hanoi Train...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    ...well-off middle-class types, as a catch-all dismissal of poor people complaining about running out of money, in the smug and infuriating manner to be expected of someone who never has run out of money, let alone been hungry; they not...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    And now we have news of a 2027 bid for another worldcon in Montreal. Run by an experienced team. One may also read the same news on the Worldcon site. It's been asked repeatedly so I'll pass along that yes,...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Next year's worldcon (2025) will be held in Seattle. The only bid still standing for 2026 is for Los Angeles. I'll be in Seattle next year; I've already got my membership. Not for LA yet, but that Worldcon is close...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    ...someone is now accusing Kevin Standlee of acting as a "spokesperson" for WSFS... He must be Duke of the World Science Fiction Society even when he's not wearing the ermine cape, right? Or is it a tribble fur cape?...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Relevant to this topic, Kevin Standlee recently posted an essay titled "WSFS Misconceptions (Possibly #1 in a Series)" which begins: [This is not an official statement from the World Science Fiction Society. I am not President of WSFS, Inc. This...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    SMOFs want to, dare I say it, Rule The World, and they're using fandom as their power base to work from. Oh, indeed - and nobody wants to compare a Worldcon budget and attendance with, for example, those of a...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I might have done something naughty and created an account for Dilbert Stark, Apartheid Space Entrepreneur Extraordinary... I admire your restraint in not calling him Dilbert Stark, Apartheid Racist Space Entrepreneur. :-)...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    I don't get it. The Mark Protection Committee (the "Marks"?) has buggerall to do with bidding for, winning and/or running a Worldcon. Do real people really believe that the MPC has any actual power or control over Worldcons? Yes. And...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Kate was your lady? My deepest condolences. My k8's been gone... over 25 years. Kate Yule was David Levine's lady. I knew her from local conventions, mostly, though I has at the funeral services. Nice woman. Fandom has plenty of...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Those people scare me, because the nansecond everything is open, with no secrets ... then .. "All your money belong us ... goodbye!" And, no matter how many times you tell these idiots that, they still refuse to believe it....
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