If you do fling it, please wait to do it until Peter can catch it on camera.
I propose another new thread. Books Flung - with pictures. Should be good!
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- Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Many Little Dimensions or One Big One?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 268098
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:50 am
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Movies and Representing History: The Case of "300"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 145811
Windwalker wrote: Agreed, with one addendum: Women's status was low to none in almost all societies. One glaring exception to this being Ancient Egypian society (which was later considered immoral by the Greek historians). Women then had the same social standing as nineteenth century women and a nu...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:36 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Cyberpunk, the new generation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 145247
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:55 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Cyberpunk, the new generation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 145247
Modern English departments believe that narrative is dead, or a delusion, and so their graduates are reduced to either (a) writing metanovels or (b) writing novels about mean people being mean to each other (in my wife's words, and she's had enough of that already in real life). YA novels still bel...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Poetry and Prose of Science and Science Fiction
- Topic: Many Little Dimensions or One Big One?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 268098
Completely non-scientific character ( brace yourself - I am not actually a rocketscientist *gasp!*) steps into the discussion a moment to pose a question: An AI would, by one definition, be a completely neuter being - wouldn't it? And if so, is it possible that this factor alone may create such a di...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:57 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Cyberpunk, the new generation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 145247
Windwalker wrote: Very much so! One of the points I make to learned panels (NIH et al -- possibly not to their pleasure) is that most scientists do not become scientists from reading scientific publications. They become scientists from reading scientist biographies and/or SF. I have no idea if they...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:00 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Cyberpunk, the new generation
- Replies: 19
- Views: 145247
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:47 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
Windwalker wrote: I personally think he should run for governor of California. Now THAT I'd like to see! As an aside, I've always thought weather patterns and meteorology were fascinating. When I was very young, I began keeping track of cold verses warm years in order to better guesstimate the like...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:04 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:00 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
Windwalker wrote: Actually, we should write these books. We'd become instant millionaires, buy half of New Zealand and retire in the style to which we could easily become accustomed. Uhm... You know you ARE right. Lets see... integrity - wealth, wealth - integrity... New Zealand... oh dear! Caliban...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:35 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:12 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:50 pm
- Forum: Musings and Chats
- Topic: But why is it snowing again?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 95598
But why is it snowing again?
March 7, three inches and still accumulating.
*primes genade - throws*
Could Graham Hancock be right?
*ducks, runs*
heheheh...heheh..hehe...
*primes genade - throws*
Could Graham Hancock be right?
*ducks, runs*
heheheh...heheh..hehe...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:38 am
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Fantasy universes and worlds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 266454
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:26 pm
- Forum: Literature and Cinema
- Topic: Fantasy universes and worlds
- Replies: 40
- Views: 266454