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• Commented on Things I would make if I had a 3D printer ...
  I've got a fat-skimmer (I make a lot of chicken stock) that's far and away the best design I've ever used. It's cracked, and the manufacturer no longer exists. I'd love to scan in the old part and generate a...
• Commented on An age-old question
  I'm 74. The body's getting pretty creaky and I doubt I'll meet Charlie's time frame for life extension, much less with improvements. I have two new lenses in my eyes, about 15 dental implants, a stent in my left anterior...
• Commented on Not a Manifesto
  Actually, Miéville's Kraken comes pretty close to my ideal of contemporary urban fantasy....
• Commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  Erm... . Don't those zombies sound a bit like the Space Nazis from Iron Sunrise?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  Another minor quibble: David Niven, not Basil Rathbone. (Rathbone died in '67 and was in at least one movie that year, so he could have played Bond; but he didn't.)...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  The retconning in Friday will bother someone who read "Gulf" around the time it was written. But then Heinlein had blown the very notion of consistency six ways to hell in The Number of the Beast....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
  In general, I'm not in favor of rewriting books. The City and the Stars was a different book from Against the Fall of Night, but it's not clearly a better one; and the version of The Sword in the Stone...
• Commented on The language of alienation
  Working backwards, a phrase from the Thirties that was so incomprehensible by the Fifties that Mad Magazine repeatedly used it as a running joke: "It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide."...
• Commented on On not passing the Turing Test
  I don't mind signing with my real name here, though I usually go by the moniker above. If your spam filter is good, it should recognize the relevance of the comment. I notice that John Crowley's blog at Live Journal...