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Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Take your time. "Charlie Stross is not your bitch" is not going to be a meme we need....
Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
The problem with Brexit is not about the form of the Brexit we settle on, it's about how we learn to live with each other after. If we crash out, and things inevitably go to shit, remainers are going to...
Commented on Catching Up
The YouGov poll released yesterday showed a very clear pattern of younger people voting Labour and older people Conservative. As expected. The trope is that people get less idealistic and more self-interested as they get older. Is that a fixed...
Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
Is there a Stross upcoming books tracker somewhere. With graphical display of time to purchase? I can't keep up....
Commented on The internet of decay
Washing machine jailbreak services?...
Commented on The unavoidable discussion
Not much talk of social protections here. When I hear people like Gove, Grayling, Johnson and Patel talking about sovereignty I hear between the lines their annoyance at not being able to dismantle rights and the social state fast enough....
Commented on Quiet in here, isn't it?
"A side-effect of this is that if you push a project along for 15 years, inconsistencies creep in—and are frozen in print in earlier books." ...but not necessarily in electronic formats, which is really interesting. Raises questions about whether something...

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JohnS commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Bill Arnold @ 1349: Yeah, noticed that but was allowed by my vpn-endpoint-of-the-day. A google search finds plenty that work in the US, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaoregV1Wak I noticed last night that "Hotel California" Brexit dates back to July 2018 in the UK press, probably earlier. I can't read May's face so don't know if she had heard this. Away from link collection, but e.g. A Hotel California Brexit? (clunky video is ok) The "Hotel California Brexit" bit is cool. I have plenty of other YouTube links to various versions of Hotel California, but the one I'm missing now is the one...
Scott Sanford commented on Deaths and Deadlines
My sympathies, I swear rapid deaths from sicknesses like that are worse than car accidents or heart attacks because it feels like there should have been some way to intervene. Also that, dang, they were doing so well until so recently. It does seem to run in my family that we get robust good health, a relatively brief decline, and a quick exit. That doesn't make it any easier. Thank you for your sympathies, everyone. I'll be a while moving through the grieving process but I'm mostly presentable to be back in public. I doubt anyone else on this blog...
Greg Tingey commented on Deaths and Deadlines
JBS @ 1346 I have mom's cat. She's at least 21 years old and about ready to go as well. She's stopped eating. To ease her passing - I know this phenomenon well, you may find that a cat will take a milk-& water mix with a tiny quantity of "Bovril" in it & lap it up. Hex(adecimal) died 3 years ago now, but she was trying to crawl away to die ... I wouldn't let her, fed her as above & she died at home, is buried in the garden & was purring under my hands, less than 2...
Trottelreiner commented on Deaths and Deadlines
On a also somewhat tangential note, I have taken to compile a playlist of music I remember for a variety of reasons or encountered recently for use at work. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLns7jxlzZ5_kwLylXRaQqkWJw8ebxSjcf There is some overlap with songs in OGH's work, but then, what got me hooked on "Halting State" was the "Your mom wears army boots" line alluding to NMA. Yes, they are in there, though not "51st State", the song played at the parties I frequented in my late teens. No warranty for bad taste, and new suggestions welcome....
MSB commented on Deaths and Deadlines
Mods: drive-by spam at 1354 [[ thanks - removed - mod ]]...

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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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