Settler words&music in S'ólh Téméxw, (leanpub.com/upsun) living where privilege meets precarity in MST country. she/her/they———– Novels: Midnite Moving Co., Upsun; Sweep Off Those Waves coming soon, Hair Sinister after that. —Restore All Indigenous Lands!
I am in the process of writing a near future / SF novel which contains a kind of computer virus called (in the story) a nukeworm.
Would anybody care to speculate what Phase II is likely to be? In my story, a politically (as in wanting to change behavior of certain individuals) not criminally (as in MONEY) motivated group of hackers uses the nukeworm to harvest social networking information. In real life…… ai-yi.
I’m at kopper’s place (typed kipper, ha ha) as, scurvy little emotional parasite that I am, I didn’t want to be by myself the night before nautilus3’s surgery. Also, I wanted a break from the non stop looking at responses to my Craigslist ad, which I can do now that I have located…. Dances with Sheep! Yes, I ran the nickname by him and he kind of email rolled his eyes but he’s okay with it. You can understand just how laid back he is from this exchange. He will be referred to in short form as DwS.
The weird frisson was that I nearly logged in as kopper, which would have been really bizarre.
I have now had coffee and I have an hour to get to work. Wish me luck!!!
I will be thinking about my mOm a lot today. She says she’s never been so well prepared for a major life event…. They really try to make sure you have everything you need in advance.
Kopper showed me her bow collection. You know, the kind you kill things with. As a member of the Consorority of the Brides of Lymond, having a girlfriend who can kill things with a bow and arrow is SWOONDERFUL. Then I admired her ribbons…. gal’s good.
People keep trying to sue to stop violent video games, and the courts in the US keep bitch slapping them. Scanged from Slashdot.org.
Judge Richard A. Posner: ‘Violence has always been and remains a central interest of humankind and a recurrent, even obsessive theme of culture both high and low … It engages the interest of children from an early age, as anyone familiar with the classic fairy tales collected by Grimm, Andersen, and Perrault are aware. To shield children right up to the age of 18 from exposure to violent descriptions and images would not only be quixotic, but deforming; it would leave them unequipped to cope with the world as we know it.'”
On this day in 1807, Robert Fulton’s steamboat left the dock on scheduled service.
Scroll down to the bottom to see what Napoleon had to say about steamboats. Tee hee.
This does not reference my boss. Don’t touch this on dialup. For those of you who don’t follow the link, it’s a frickin hilarious flash animation of pummeling the living snot out of your boss. Find the 17 methods of killing your boss in the cubicle…
I read that he had read Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac (one of my all time favourite books) and the discussion went south from there….
mOm, in particular read the comments, although I loved the blog post.
So I’m passing it along. Why Terrorism Doesn’t Work.
Yes, I know that I would rather die a thousand deaths than throw a Molotov cocktail at a policewoman, but I have to love the report on the stunning daylight raid of some Greek anarchists on a cop shop in Athens. Check out one of Bruce Sterling’s posts from today from the blogroll at the side of this post….. no arrests. Hm.
Murphy’s laws of Cowboy Action Shooting.
Lexi you should find this amusing too.
Paul called to say he was safely on the ground in SF, which is prob’ly the last I’ll hear of him until Tuesday evening.
We WATCHED MOVIES. Highly recommended, although violent and weird in spots, is Tsotsi
Even more highly recommended is Broken Trail – If you have ANY interest in Westerns this is a TV production you cannot afford to miss. ALSO if you are a Firefly fan, it’s like the guys who wrote the soundtrack sat at Greg Edmundson’s feet to get the Chinese/Western crossover thing pitch perfect – that was an unexpected bonus. The scenery is so gorgeous, and the script and acting so good, and the details…. And Robert Duvall is just plain AMAZING. Gun enthusiasts will be pleased by the accurate use of period guns. Horse enthusiasts will be interested…. Persons interested in history will be interested… and the bad guys GET THEIRS yeehaw. I have every intention of watching this again, but seeing as how Jeff brought 20 movies with him, it won’t be on this pass.
Now, off to the Big 6 for brekkie.