Rex Gatch

Rex Gatch

  • Commented on I ain't dead
    I was born in the USA in the sixties, and after the sudden cardiac arrest last year, I decided to get all the backed up stuff done. The sixties measles vaccine wasn’t apparently that effective but they can do a...
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    Impressive beard Greg The voice over at the beginning of the clip sounds like the lass on Gardener’s World...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Don’t the French own two islands off Canada (st. Pierre and Miquelon)? And don’t they get their own MEP? Some sort of reverse takeover of Canada is surely possible?...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    I quite like the competence reality shows I had a friend on a reality cooking show and they edit you into the drama And perhaps to the point of parody, but what about the biggest poo show, contestants would compete...
  • Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
    Greg, that’s insightful It took me a long time to realise that while they seem very similar on the surface, the US and the UK have profound cultural differences, one of the main being that the US has no real...
  • Commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
    My daughter who will one day I am sure google herself will be referenced as 380-450 nanometers in this For various convoluted reasons, I got first meaning rights, my wife is one of the doesn’t have a middle name crowd...
  • Commented on Three pieces of news about the Laundry Files (UPDATED!)
    Very good news, i was happy with just the books, but the Laundry Series is eminently filamble It might morph a little, but hopefully it will retain the sense of the original books Even the books, once you stopped channeling...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    In one of those weird things, you basically typed, if not word for word, what I was just thinking...
  • Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
    Greg I found LR by accident and did a wee double take when I saw you there Rex...
  • Commented on Deaths and Deadlines
    In my view it’s worse than that As someone whose career has gone uni doing civil degree (dropped out) Construction engineer Finished degree with emphasis on particular structural disciplines that would be useful in construction Construction engineer again Moved to...
  • Commented on Brexit! Means! Brexit!
    Even in 1913, we knew you were better offing having a bigger pie, rather than taking someone else’s pie I can’t see an aggressive war serving any one in almost all circumstances...
  • Commented on Do my Homework
    Some great comments in this thread. I have three reasons why I think we are seeing the trends Charlie mentioned play out, and it’s through my bias of liking if this then what fiction Firstly, Bruce Sterling wrote the Holy...
  • Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
    Thanks, I ended up it reading last night, it’s a fairly short book Slight would be my faint praise, didn’t ever really get engaged with it at all Having reread A Night in the Lonesome October recently, I think Zelazny...
  • Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
    The new Varley eight worlds novel arrived this evening at my house Any early reviews, I have a big to read pile and would love to prioritize Thanks...
  • Commented on Sitrep
    I grew up in Malta (apart from the eight months of the year I attended torture camp, I mean school in England). There have always been nasty vicious politics there, but I was reading Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Blog through some...
  • Commented on The Pivot
    I am unable to tell whether Theresa May has played a subtle and complex game to screw Brexit or she is useless The results are identical I lean to subtle, BoJo as Foreign Secretary........
  • Commented on The Pivot
    One wishes the story about the dining hall at New College Oxford was true Sadly, it apparently is not...
  • Commented on The Pivot
    As a Brit in NJ, one is shocked at how well paid the suburban police are, they also retire after 20 years, with great pensions As to prices, I just booked a hotel that had a hidden “resort fee” of...
  • Commented on Happy 21st Century!
    Greg Former Governor Chris Christie, while an utter slimeball in almost every respect, did not govern NJ as an ultra-right winger. He did cancel the ARC tunnel, for his own selfish political reasons, but the consensus among the transit blogs...
  • Commented on Solarpunk rising, or how to turn boring bureaucratic meetings into creative fodder
    Worthy intentions, even something like recycling concrete as aggregate or as a fill material, has gone from something highly encouraged to almost impossible here in NJ I won’t give you chapter and verse on this, because it is a saga,...
  • Commented on Solarpunk rising, or how to turn boring bureaucratic meetings into creative fodder
    If engineers ran projects..... On one hand you get Robert Moses freeways through projects, bad On the other, I am literally losing the will to live work-wise, and there are no people keener on making the work\Le a better place...
  • Commented on Solarpunk rising, or how to turn boring bureaucratic meetings into creative fodder
    As an environmental engineer ( environmental in the sense of attempting to clean up toxins in soils, groundwater, surface water and sediments) I think you are right, but perhaps (not being sarcastic) underestimating how screwed up the regulatory process is...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    As a regular lurker here, I am well aware that you had a very tough 2017 and are under the gun on your book schedule. I hope you manage to get through the next months before your break. The point...
  • Commented on The Nakamoto Variations
    In all seriousness, the “seventeen billion dollars on a thumb drive” concept is such a hook/perfect elevator pitch that my first thought was I want to read that book. You have an excellent ability to channel other voices, force yourself...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Whilst I made a nice chunk of change out of my Apple stock, I still feel for a former boss of mine who bought a amount of Pre-split Apple for three dollars and sensibly sold when he had made his...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Nope, still illegal here in NI...
  • Commented on Why I barely read SF these days
    Interesting thread and initial thesis by Charlie. I read a lot less these days, I am 51 and while I can’t claim to have read everything pre 90’s SFF, I certainly read a shedload. There was a time when I...
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