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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I'm grateful to know you.

We have probably talked about this before, but I hate "ask" when used as a noun by people who are too corporate to use the words "question" or "request." Example: "Does Assmunch Corporation refer to their employees as 'employees' or 'associates'?" "When we have our conference call with the Assmunch...

We have probably talked about this before, but I hate "ask" when used as a noun. By people who are too corporate to use the words "question" or "request." Example: "Does Assmunch Corporation refer to their employees as 'employees' or 'associates'?" "When we have our conference call with the Assmunch...

For clarification camera once the want to living room So -- what was this actually supposed to say? We were having a text conversation about some security webcams that my brother had placed in our late father's house, to help us keep an eye on the place. (One of several security measures we are emp...

Or it would be easier to just respond to every unclear text with "Whut?" until he sends me something that's crystal clear. To be a bit more brief, I think the reason this annoys me so much is this: 1) He sends me a garbled dictated message. 2) I respond by laboriously typing back: "Is this what you ...

OK. Fuck the current state-of-the-art of "talk to text" via Siri, which supposedly lets you dictate a message to your phone and then supposedly renders into a text message for you. Or, if it's not Siri "talk to text" itself that's to blame, it's my brother's inability to speak to it clearly. Yet he ...

Want to like that "there's a new app that tells you which friends are racist - Facebook" meme, but I can't because it's from that "I love when I wake up and Obama is president" thing. I want it to mean "anyone who is currently shitting on Syrian refugees", but to them it means "anyone who ever crit...

Warren wrote:

Stevo Darkly wrote:Happy Grylliversary!

Still feels like home.

Would it kill you to maybe write sometime?

I've been one poor correspondent. And I'm too too hard to find.

But that doesn't mean y'all ain't been on my mind.

Happy Grylliversary!

Still feels like home.

And now we have a Moebius thread!

Or we did until now.

It's nice that you think I shouldn't get mad when someone, in almost complete ignorance of the subject, starts slandering people I know as racist and sexist. It's nice that I've got a dear friend who's gay, female, and nonwhite, and who sees the Puppies as a remarkably popular effort to chase peopl...

Various clarifications (not aimed at Eric): - I was wrong when I said that "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love" was a Hugo winner. It was only nominated to be a Hugo. In my opinion, that's still more attention than it deserved in the SF realm, but that's only my opinion. (It did win a Nebula, which pro...

A tally of the Puppy slates' nomination successes . For all the attempts to separate the Sad and Rabid Puppies and blow off Vox Day as an inconvenient outlier, the Puppy groups shared most of their slates' successes. When it came to differences between the two, the Rabid Puppies actually had more i...

dbcooper wrote:FTL or GTFO.

My fervent and optimistic hope that someday humans will master the technology of high-speed interstellar travel is tempered by the fact that most humans haven't yet mastered the turn signal.

Stevo is what we now call a Western supremacist. Sort of. I do think that certain cultures are better fit at dealing with their environment, and expanding, and benefiting their members, and overcoming their competitors, than others. And the West seems to be pretty good at that. I think maybe I pref...

I think overreaction is a thing. Mayhap you are right. Quality of this vs. quality of that: I'm not sure enough about anything to offer an opinion right now, and I'm aware of the huge subjective component involved in judging quality. I did like the Wright "Yes, Virginia" at the time I read it. I tr...

PS: Eric, incidentally, you make an interesting point about Heinlein (and some of my other favorite old-timey SF writers). It's true that even when Heinlein reveals -- "AHA!" -- that a character is a Filipino or a Zulu or whatever, he basically still writes that character as pretty much an American,...

Eric -- I just wanted to say that read your longish response to my two over-long (and rambling) posts, and I think I actually agree with 95% of what you say. I just differ a little bit in my reaction to my perceived politicization of SF fandom (and publishing and criticism and writing). Maybe I'm ov...

Rather, what has some people riled up is that the focus of science fiction criticism seems to be drifting away from the story , and focusing more on who wrote the story , and what their politics are. To which they responded by ... promoting an entire slate exclusively based on who wrote the stories...

Reposting this because it got moved to the Hugos thread and specifically wasn't related to that: This review of Star Wars by Samuel Delaney is utterly glorious. All of it is wonderful. But perhaps the best bit from a dramatic irony perspective: This is perhaps the place to mention that – to get the...

Continued ... For example, over at the SF Signal site, I see discussions of -- for example -- "best of" SF anthologies and there's almost always a bit of angst if too many of the authors in the collection are male and too few are female. Or too many are white and not enough non-white. Bias is a poss...

The Sad and Rabid Puppies, apparently. But, as I said earlier, they're yearning for a lost golden age that never actually existed -- the age where "if you saw a lovely spaceship on a book cover, with a gorgeous planet in the background, you could be pretty sure you were going to get a rousing space...

Saw on Twitter. Posted by a guy who said he was going to quit his job so he could spend more time watching this.

It is, in fact, the best thing produced by the Internet so far.

MORE COWBELL! Don't fear the retriever.

I guess I had a 1950ish range. I really had no incentive to travel alone more than a mile from my home, because most of my day-to-day childish needs were much closer than that. Our street had sufficient kids to play with. No need to go further than a third of a mile if I wanted to play soldiers or e...