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  • Commented on Down tools
    ...it seems very unlikely that an F-35 is better than $181 million worth of legacy fighters (about 13 F16s), let alone $181 million worth of air-superiority drones (which is probably what they should have invented instead)... I was out near...
  • Commented on Down tools
    I don't know about the UK, but in the states there were also local shows, like The Uncle Floyd Show from New York, which I only know from the Bowie song "Slip Away". Then there were the franchised shows like...
  • Commented on Down tools
    I've observed here before that Cold Comfort Farm isn't as widely known in the US as it seems to be over in the UK. On the other hand, since I was at my computer anyway I poked my local library...
  • Commented on Gods and genre
    I believe you, but Google is surprisingly unhelpful about producing a pie chart showing examples of institutional spending broken down by department. For some reason it's hard to find sample breakdowns of college and university budgets: Administration 4%, Building Maintenance...
  • Commented on Who Owns SF?
    The previous link for Farm, Forge, and Steam had html problems. Let's try another: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33605982/images/1406156476854.pdf...
  • Commented on Competition Redux!
    ...when I tried to go to work this afternoon my car was covered in bees. It was the only one in the parking lot covered, and there were like 50 of them. But is that an unacceptable number of them?...
  • Commented on Who Owns SF?
    Said library doesn't seem to have any of Nicola's books, under any heading – sorry, Nicola! That's a pity. Mine does, maybe you can ask for an inter-library loan....
  • Commented on Who Owns SF?
    And below a tab I didn't notice until hitting Submit: Women detectives Scotland -- Fiction The 'Genre' field lists Mystery before Science Fiction, but that may be due to alphabetical order....
  • Commented on Who Owns SF?
    I don't known what the library thinks Rule 34 is – it's got it, but I haven't seen it since it disappeared from the "New Books" shelf... From memory, my local library keeps the physical object on the SF shelves...
  • Commented on App store annoyances
    I can't be the only one who thought of this... I'm certain you're not. Remember who took a smartphone to a stolen Bible?...
  • Commented on Who Owns SF?
    If you're writing, say, a police procedural, you're working with a given set of building blocks. Cops, criminals, procedures, crime scene investigation tools, surveillance video... they're all known components of the police procedural genre. You may be more hip to...
  • Commented on Gods and genre
    And in the Lensman series, God - or a reasonable substitute - did choose the (Lens)man. Not a gimmick that I'd use today, but it worked for Doc Smith. Of course, few people talk about the job interview process wherein...
  • Commented on Gods and genre
    It is now apparently impossible to find Yellow Doc Martins ‘Drench’ boots, because they’re perfect for cosplaying the new costume. That's not a coincidence. Unlike many superhero costumes that feature arbitrary, imaginary, or obviously fanciful footwear, the new Batgirl costume...
  • Commented on Some rambling thoughts on region restrictions
    As the article on Banker's Drafts notes, paper instruments for transferring money are going away. As will surprise nobody who's read Neptune's Brood, that's coming hand-in-hand with the assumption that everyone will have nigh instantaneous communication over all distances at...
  • Commented on Competition Redux!
    >BILLION CORPSES is not an acceptable project codename. Please choose a less accurate one. That just broke me up. On codenames, I thought highly of #187: "It is difficult to take a threat to reality seriously when it has been...
  • Commented on Competition Redux!
    Heh, I'm just happy the break room fridge is finally going to get replaced. :D Yeah, lost equipment replacement forms are standard. You can get them from Amy....
  • Commented on Competition Redux!
    I hope you enjoyed the Amy story, at least; I wouldn't know how to judge it either....
  • Commented on Some rambling thoughts on region restrictions
    Never mind the dollar mini-payment. How about a one cent payment for webcomic artists? Or a 1/20 cent micropayment? There's nothing to support that, and I don't see anything coming soon. It's not that it wouldn't be useful, either. Imagine...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Off topic, but an amusing question came up at the SF Match Game event at Westercon 67. You can google the Match Game show if you're not of the right generation or nationality to have seen it on TV; it's...
  • Commented on The Rhesus Chart: Chapter One
    Everyone seems to be reading too much passive-aggressive message sending into Bob's squid-eating behaviour. He's just not that subtle: geek guys who are incompletely socialized don't generally go in for subtle messaging. Nice to have that officially established. That's how...
  • Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
    You forgot 'successful' tristate hardware developed in the 60's, 70's, etc. All of which could make the same claim about being outpaced by conventional approaches. Well, yes. It's not as if someone playing with electronics - for pure research or...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Agent [REDACTED] reports that BLUE HADES does in fact taste like chicken. In response I am requesting an auditor team to find out how he knows this and a memory erasure for myself. I'm sure I don't need to know...
  • Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
    They'd developed a test to evaluate how well the students were learning and, in the best tradition of serendipity, accidentally gave it to the students before they'd done any classes. It turned out to be an excellent (and somewhat depressing)...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Guys, I don't know what's going on over there but "dead, replaced by android" is outside our area of operations. Can it be handed off to someone who will cover up whatever the hell is going on over there? Preferably...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    It is unprofessional to tell new employees humorous stories for amusement. For example, BLUE HADES does not taste like chicken. DSS Angleton does not have a twin, either evil or working at Harrods. SCORPION STARE is not routinely installed on...
  • Commented on One week to go to THE RHESUS CHART
    A quick check tells me there's a 30+ person waiting list at my local library, which seems pretty good for a book that's not in stock yet....
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Agent assigned to clear personnel to know of the existence of COCKROACH LABYRINTH is not cleared to know about COCKROACH LABYRINTH. Please advise....
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Thank you for the note, Ace. We've been wondering where, and when, Amy had gone. Unfortunately, our current budget does not cover travel to other galaxies. Journeying billions of years into the past is right out. How about that professor...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Let's get this out of the way and forget about it as soon as possible. Bagpipes are musical instruments. They are not flamethrowers. (Yes, we were all impressed by the party trick. Everyone saw what happened to the ceiling, too.)...
  • Commented on Competition Time!
    Mitchell, yes, I've seen the new 3D printers and I do understand how they work. Three is in fact the number of dimensions in which they can print. Don't listen to everything Pinkie says. [hand-written on Post-It note:] 3D printers?...
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