ganked from badassbroccoli: o1. my uncle once: rode a motorbike all around rural Quebec. o2. never in my life: have I been as happy as I am now. o3. when i was five: I had to wear a patch on my good eye, and banged into everything in my way when I went walking. o4. high School is: no kind of place to learn anything. o5. i once met: the Dalai Lama. o6. there’s this girl i know who: who writes a lot about gay and transgendered people in my writing course, and who has, perhaps for this reason, begun …
Month: December 2006
Welcome to the Server Room (to the tune of Welcome to the Jungle)
On one of the mailing lists I was on, someone riffed on the idea of a certain Guns’n’Roses song being adapted for sysadmins. I came up with all the lyrics except the first line. Fun like this is why I am still on this mailing list… and why I don’t sleep enough. Welcome to the server room, we’ve got fun and games… We got all the passwords here, for all the usernames. We are the people that can find Whatever you download If you got the login, honey, We got your node Chorus: In the server room Welcome to the …
Flickring
I’ve added loads of photos to my Flickr account–linked in the sidebar–in the last few days. Today, I added shots from today, an outing with Lime around Bucheon. Users on my contacts list can see more pics, including pics of Lime, who’s forbidden public posting of any pictures of her, for reasons I’ve discussed before on this blog. Anyway, lots of new pics to see. I’m making this pro account worth the price.
Ogallala Rewrite
Inspired by Alfred Bester’s example, I’m going to worry less about exactly how the science works in the rewrite of this story. This will infuriate some readers, maybe — though I think it can be balanced if I work things just right. In the original draft, the science was actually quite faulty according to the dominant model we have now about icecaps melting, and the implications of the melt were totally misconstructed by one character, though not by accident. I think I can still work in some of that, but actually, I think I can do a better job of …
The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
I decided to just relax and do some reading for enjoyment — after all the editing and other busy-work I’ve been doing for over a week now, I needed that. So anyway, I just finished reading this book today, and very much enjoyed it. As I posted over at AllConsuming moments ago, I would be all too happy to recommend it to friends, as my friend Charlie recommended it to me long ago: There’s a good reason this novel is on so many SF top-lists. It’s an excellent novel, because it immerses you in a world, and then propels you …