I was sort of hoping one of the transcriptions would read;
When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, Six Signs shall burn,
and where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon's sword the Dark will fall
But of course that chalice was found in Cornwall.
But whatever did you do to that cat? I think I understand the bonnet on it, but why are there pink pinstripes only on one side?
albastross @127;
For building a theme park, refer them to Niven's and Barnes' Dream Park series.
For city planning, Oath of Fealty.
@114;
Ack! Thinking one thing and typing another. I even previewed my post.
For the Christian End-Times, may I suggest Pratchett's & Gaiman's Good Times?
Stephenson's The Big U is for fresh-people just entering uni.
Recommended for those interested in music history of the 80's, Bull's War for the Oaks.
Information specific to Aztec deities can be found in Lackey's Burning Water.
'You couldn't have it if you DID want it,' the Queen said. 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day.'
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871
DISCLAIMER: I have yet to see the film.
I will have to stop reading spoilers for this film as I will end up loving the action but hating the Wesley Crusher version of James T Kirk.
So I will only comment on two-and-a-half peripheral points mentioned.
Nyota Uhura:
1 - even ignoring the 'relaxed' military rules of conduct that a number of people are using to excuse this in the AU Star Trek, would the Uhura-Spock relationship truly pass in a university environment? Even if it was a kissing-only affair, rumors of teacher mis-conduct or of s*x-for-grades would circulate. Even if official notice was not taken, the rumors are not likely to go away.
1 1/2 - From what I am read, the movie audience is being told that Uhura is an expert linguist, as in one character talking to another. If the director was pressed for time, they could have shown a shot of two Romulans talking over communication circuit and then a shot of Uhura providing a direct translation?
2 - the Kobayashi Maru test. Originally I was none too pleased about this ret-conning of the character. I got used to it. I mean, here is a cadet that does not like to lose hearing of a test that cannot be won, and this is the solution. The fact that the other Wiki mentions that he gets a commendation is jarring given that military-style academy would most likely have some sort of 'honor'-system that would officially frown on this. "Oh, you want to talk to me about my cheating on the last test? Let me finish putting up my poster of Cadet Kirk's Kobayashi Maru win. ... There. You were saying?"
Even if an honor-system was not in place the student body would not be amused. This is not talking about somebody winning a Nintendo-Hard simulation, this is somebody winning a Nintendo-Hard simulation by hacking in a god-mode.
D Turner @61;
Re: risk of prosecuting prior office holder to result in a 'tit-for-tat' situation,
a) Bring it on. I would say that the politicians on the liberal side of this are less of a legal risk in this game of chicken.
b) If any are dirty enough to convict, then it is best to let them be convicted and get a better politician. Or at least one that knows criminal activities are actionable. And
c) For the most part that ship has already sailed. President Clinton was still pursued for his indiscretions a couple years after leaving office. It is amazing how 'the public demands this politician be punished' when the politician is Democratic changes to 'the public is tired of all these legal actions' when the politician is Republican. And vice versa.
David Harmon #61;
Re-reading what I wrote, yeah I could have been clearer as to whom I was directing that towards. Sorry.
It is just that the whole "If you don't like how we followed orders, we won't follow yours" is very close to the IOKIYAR modus operandi of the past couple of decades. Illegal orders (illegal enough for CYA memos to get issued) from Republicans get labeled as wise decisions. Democratic executive cleaning up get labeled as weak enough to ignore.
In effect those people are less concerned with the Constitution and the American people, and more with their lily-white hides.
David Hamon @ 2123;
Complaining about persecution because they 'just were following orders' strikes me as pretty rich. Soldiers and other federal personnel stationed over-seas (which includes CIA agents) are now at a greater risk because of what they did.
Given that former administration up to VP Cheney at least (it can be debated whether Bush 43 went along before- or after- the fact) outed a covert agent (Valerie Plame) and compromised a cover corporation devoted to tracking nuclear materials, I'd like to see records of the complainers in the Agency protesting the outing.
Of course you do not want to hurt their feelings.
What about 'Helen O'Loy' by Lester del Rey (1938)?
'Cause all that i want is a silicon girl.
with silicon lips and silicon hair.
Sha la la, la la la you're my silicon girl
so come into my silicon world.
- Eiffel 65, Europop
The 'Irregularities' will be reported and that is as close as the MSM will go. As long as the narrative is 'doubt exists over a Democratic President's election', that is how the MSM will play it.
My favorite 'Words from my Father' would have to be;
Sky Masterson: When I was a young man about to go out into the world, my father says to me a very valuable thing. He says to me like this... "Son," the old guy says, "I am sorry that I am not able to bank roll you to a very large start, but not having any potatoes which to give you, I am now going to stake you to some very valuable advice. One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice, brand new deck of cards on which the seal has not yet been broken. This man is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. Now son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you stand there, you are going to wind up with an earful of cider."
I cannot really say that the article on SF's generational gaps said much of anything to me, but I suppose that I am not one the article's targets.
After saying that short story authors only read short stories by others in their generation, Klima then produces two truisms to 'support' this. To wit, 'Readers read everything' and 'When writers go pro, they start networking'.
I have read writer's acknowledgments that explaining who influenced them and why their writing are similar to what they have themselves read earlier. I have yet to encounter a writer who baldly states that he or she *only* reads stories from their own generation.
The closest example that I can think of would be cyber-punk writers. But there is nothing to say that this the similarities in writing come from generational experiences as opposed to exposure to computers. Writing to genre as opposed to age group.
As far as I can tell the 'safe' words are;
How,
What,
When,
Where,
Who, and
Why
News Organizations have stopped using them for at least a decade.
/snark
Emily @94
Recently I tried a Orange-Coffee cordial. While the recipe is simple to execute, the steeping time is long (about a month and a half).
It does allow one to experience being caffeinated and blitzed at the same time.
On the subject of 'Land wars in Asia".
From Babylon 5's Ceremonies of Light and Dark;
Londo: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
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