W. Alex Livesley

W. Alex Livesley

  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    Can't remember if I read ST. I have definitely read some Heinlein. I remember reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and being somewhat shocked by some of the sexual mores. How little I knew. 40 years later and some...
  • Commented on I ain't dead
    Glad to hear you are not dead. Too many good writers have dropped off their perches leaving me with less to read. This is bad. Treat it as burnout, a phenomenon you are familiar with no doubt. My treatment, it...
  • Commented on Normal service will be resumed eventually
    I am sorry to hear it. I lost my Dad about 20 years ago. I still have occasions when I see or read something and think "I'll have to tell Dad that" - then remember. I still miss my Dad....
  • Commented on Test Case
    It will be interesting to see how much weight the court gives to the relative hazards of a human driven vehicle vs an automated vehicle. HDV kill many people each day, which means nothing in itself. Does the death of...
  • Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
    My condolences on the death of your father. Mine died almost 20 years ago and I still have moments when I see something I would like to share and then remember that I can't. I am glad, in some ways,...
  • Commented on Paging Agent 007
    Very good :-)...
  • Commented on Paging Agent 007
    I assume that, since Mrs M is engineered by Clive Sinclair that there are frequent malfunctions and the occasional complete melt-down? Oh, wait......
  • Commented on Report on Seat 14C
    Odd - just explaining this very thing to some friends of mine. I feel increasingly disconnected from society - although my knees don't yet hurt except when I rip meniscuses when they hurt a lot. Part of this is because...
  • Commented on Catching Up
    Worth reading the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William Shirer. Wonderfully written by someone who was their. I'll have to dig out the volumes you mention to take a look....
  • Commented on Catching Up
    Apologies for breeching the moderators rules of engagement - it's just that I get a bit tired of reading the S.O.S about Toad. I don't like the man but the "European" (and Californian) perspective is so solipsistic that it annoys...
  • Commented on Catching Up
    A comment this time. I see some assumptions that President Toad will be impeached. This is highly unlikely. Toad retains significant support and will continue to do so since those following him believe that any criticism is partisan (which is...
  • Commented on Catching Up
    I have a question. I am still processing the result which was a surprise. Like many people I had assumed an increased Conservative majority, although not the wipe-out predicted at the start of the campaign. The assumption that I see...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Perfidious Albion Pretty much SOP then! Interesting to hear your views. My own are based on, among other things, conversations which are now long out of date in that the participants no longer live on Gibraltar together with various articles...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    Cui Bono Good advice for any information source. I believe that the BBC has had it's day and no good can come from a 5 billion turnover managed by government appointed cronies and funded by levying a regressive tax. At...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    No problem - happy to be called stupid, means I have something to learn, and loved the phrasing. Whether Adams is any of the things you mentioned is to me largely irrelevant, he argues which is more interesting. I may...
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    has a great series concerning cognitive dissonance Sorry - to qualify further has a great series of posts concerning cognitive dissonance, why people believe what they believe and how to affect that belief....
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    It doesn't surprise me that asylum seekers were equated with E.U. workers. Scott Adams (Dilbert) http://blog.dilbert.com/ has a great series concerning cognitive dissonance. Well worth reading even if it does raise the blood pressure on occasions....
  • Commented on Popcorn Time
    My first comment on hearing the result of the EU vote was - "well there goes Scotland, Northern Ireland and possibly Wales". I should write novels! Scotland leaving was always a possibility (particularly given Flounder's love of self promotion) but...
  • Commented on A Surfeit of Emeralds: Healthcare in the Middle Ages
    Apologies - Ann (not Anne) Swinfen...
  • Commented on A Surfeit of Emeralds: Healthcare in the Middle Ages
    Worth reading the Christoval Alvarez books by Anne Swinfen (http://annswinfen.com/) the eponymous character of which is a physician in late Elizabethan England. The books provide some history about the various hospitals in London, the state of healthcare at the time...
  • Commented on Updating a classic
    Think "big thoughts" then hand them off to a group of people to develop as they see fit imposing no boundaries or structure. If challenged explain that anarchism maximises creativity....
  • Commented on Updating a classic
    Number 9 is a must. Nothing I like better than scheduled meetings. Whoever thought up daily stand-ups (and you know how you are) deserves a kicking....
  • Commented on Brief interlude
    Remember it well. I believe our mouse acquisition metrics were around 5 per person-day, including one mouse which committed suicide by jumping into a trap with a few seconds of it being set. Good curries though, and very economical. I...
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    Oops - Hard to be a God not How to be a God....
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    Haven't read the next post - will do now - a cold intervened - but perhaps I should refer to myself as Confused of Oakland in the future :-) Glad to hear about new translations of Lem. I have enjoyed...
  • Commented on Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
    Be interesting to see a list of who you think does this well. Somewhat like programming, it's easier to learn from examples. I found the authors quoted with reference to the Laundry files to be interesting to read, some I...
  • Commented on The Scottish Political Singularity, Act Two
    In my case, the smell. I live in an apartment building where is is sometimes a challenge to go get my post without inhaling vast amounts of the stuff. It smells like gas passed by a goat after having eaten...
  • Commented on The Scottish Political Singularity, Act Two
    Loved the book. it was a refreshing change to the, umm, more libertarian politics in most Science Fiction....
  • Commented on Leading question
    Worth reading this http://www.bbc.com/news/29915542 In my view government during much of the 20th century was largely an abnormality in that for at least a generation or two the political class was in flux, with a completely different class of people...
  • Commented on Some thoughts on turning 50
    Happy Birthday. 52 in December in my case. I understand the comment on low-level pain, it is amazing how debilitating it can be. I notice things repeating themselves and I have a good laugh when I see the panic/excitement/noise being...
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