The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Kathy Li:

Re: Prop. 8, the only small miniscule comfort I can gain is in thinking back to 2000. In 2000, Prop. 22 (same deal as 8, only a statute, not an amendment; the other wording is identical) passed 60-40. And you thought your election night 2000 was teh suck.

Eight points in eight years is what I keep telling myself. I really hope that means we've only got two more years to go.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done damn fast: if the disemvowellation
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this comment thread of ours,
Idiot sockpuppets are to come. But in these cases
Mods still can ban the suckers...

Man, you guys are good.

Scott Taylor @199. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am sooo loving the idea of Cartier-Bresson rendered in Lego. And it's a Strobist shot to boot.

punkrockhockeymom: stay home. That would be my advice. Here's the air quality forecasts I can find. I'm only a mild asthmatic, and I am, admittedly, in San Diego where the smoke is probably far worse, and I've been spending the last three days running a HEPA filter and lying down and feeling like I have bronchitis. The winds are starting to turn around tonight, but the air won't be really clear until the weekend, I'm gussing.

Safe. Unevacuated. Go bag packed. Now. :-) You'd think I'd have paid more attention to those Making Light posts after the Cedar Fire.

I'm not sure I'd class Dickens/Cerebus/Holmes and other serially published books in the same way as waiting for novels in a series. Monthly installments have a different "gap" wait expectation, although the longevity is as much (or more) to be admired.

For me, comics-wise, the biggest wait between installments I ever had was for Alan Moore & Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls. It was, what, 1991 when it was first published in Taboo, and finally only released in its finished form last year?

Long may MPM write Emerson novels!! New Vicky Bliss? My joy is unalloyed. But I do sometimes wistfully hope we'd get another Jacqueline Kirby. I always liked them best.

Yes, Diane Duane's still planning to write Starlight but all her other projects keep getting in the way. :-)

For me, it's Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond/Niccolò series. 14 books. 39 years from The Game of Kings to Gemini.

Ok, I know I'm very late chiming in on this, but Buffy #1 definitely shipped this week. I have it in my hands right now. It made me laugh. A lot. It's good to have them back.

"Sssstupid human, I am no vampire. You think I fear the cross?"
SHUUK!
"Might wanna start."

"That were a wee bit repulsive."
"Went okay. 'Cept I feel a little weird about using a crucifix to kill someone."
"Yeh dinno much about religion, do yeh?"

And since I'm more or less off-topic and it's the Open Thread, I veer to another tv writer and say I saw a workshop production of Aaron Sorkin's new play, The Farnsworth Invention, last night. Also great fun. For any of the other Sports Night fans who remember the episodes with William H. Macy, yes, Farnsworth's brother-in-law gets a speech about how he's not that smart, but he can learn to blow glass. :)

Oh, and then my butterfly mind flits to mention that Stoppard's latest, Rock'n'Roll, is now listed on Amazon. It helps to have iTunes open when you're reading it. (grin).

Damnit. Damnit. Damnit and another "I wasn't done yet." from this corner. But I'm one of the lucky ones. I don't know quite how it happened, but the last time I saw him (and I only met him a handful of times), I was lucky enough to get Mike all to myself, for a walk along Nicolet Mall at night, and I remember chatting of Shakespeare and Sabatini by starlight with him. Damnit, I hope they appreciate him, wherever he is.

Weep not at the end of day, the morning's where it's leading
I can't make the verses knit, the loom is out of tune
Put the words and notes away, my eyes are red with reading
Shut the heart against the spirit falling from the moon.
--Aspects

Thanks, Mike! I feel as if I have a chance without having to pack a tent for camping, now. [grin] I am, however, suffering a major disappointment. David: the klatch dilemma got a little simpler. (sigh). Diane Duane just blogged that she and Peter Morwood have to cancel.

Marilee, ah, as I suspected: first come, first served. At least that'll make it easy to know if you made the list or not. Thanks!

CHip, this is my first Worldcon, too, but I don't think I'm going to be marking everything that looks interesting. I have learned from 25+ comic-cons that program burnout is a major source of con stress for me. Letting go and understanding that you won't see everything you wanted to is part of the joy of multitudinous tracked programming. :)

I am loving going through the program and seeing all the cultural differences. Although I keep having weird missteps in my thinking, because my assumptions are all based on comic-con. As in, I wonder if I can actually get into a kaffeeklatch, let alone which one. :) Are they first-come first-served or by lottery? I am soooo going to love not having to line up for hours for stuff (well, except at Disneyland).

Also, has anybody, perchance, started a Flickr group for this convention?

Jack Ruttan wrote: I wish there were more cheerful SF films with spectacle, story, characters, and humour, rather than all these endless gothic shoot-em-ups and formulaic superheroes.

The Amazing Screw-On Head.

Well, it has gothic shoot-'em-ups in it, but they're cheery!

RE: the Particles listing for Virtuoso Origami, the actual front page for HOJYO Takashi is here.

Hojyo is a virtuoso with the human figure. But for things like Final Fantasy creatures, you'll want KAMIYA Satoshi (yes, he's done a Chocobo); the club they both belong to, Origami Tanteidan; and their publisher, Origami House.

For the math and theory, you want Robert Lang. Origami Design Secrets is a masterwork.

And if you just want to mess about with secret codes hidden in folding instructions, then, there's always Nicolas Terry.

Wow. Christopher Eccleston has been cast as Number Six in a new remake of The Prisoner.

Reply to Elise, showing off Mornington Crescent/ISIHAC in-knowledge by sly dropping of phrases "in nid" and "double-platform loop".

Plays Definitions on "blog." Begins to sing One Song to the Tune of Another.

Cliff Royston wrote, about copyright/patents:
Note that unlike all the moral rights listed in the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Bill of Rights, copyrights and patents are listed in the Constitution not as any sort of "right" but as a clever way to jump-start the economy of the fledgeling nation.

I've also found it interesting to note, however, that it's in the main body of the Constitution--in the first Article, in fact, and not an amendment like the Bill of Rights (i.e., an "oops, we forgot something" afterthought). [Article 1, Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries... "]

It's right after Post Offices. :)

Carrie S. writes:
Kathy: I think eels count as bony fish, and therefore kosher ... Nope. Eels are specifically listed as non-kosher on this page.

I would guess they make it on the fin count, but that the lack of scales is the treyf factor. I do know from a Pakistani friend of mine that Muslim dietary rules allow shellfish, so I assume that the eating-of-fishy-things rule differs mightily.

One of the very few things I miss about LA is sushi that is cheap, good, and easy to get to.

Now there's an idea. If Singer can make it to LACon, we need to rope him and find a quality sushi joint upon which to loose him and his sushi ordering madskillz.

CHip: thanks for the words of encouragement! I've been to 25 consecutive Comic-cons, but this is going to be my first Worldcon, and I do realize it's going to be quite a different beastie. Definitely planning on attending any and all panels with Connie Willis--unless, y'know, the multitrack programming thing screws me up like it always does. (If only you could tivo panels).

PJ, I stand corrected. It's been a good long while since I've thoroughly roamed about LA's Chinatown. I just remember that, compared to Monterey Park, it seemed awfully small and limited in what was on offer. Though, now that I think of it, the last time I stopped by (I took the train up from San Diego, and was having fun with public transit to see if I could get to the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum while carless--I did it, but it was really hard), there were a zillion boba stands. Can't get much more authentic Chinatown than that.

Xopher write (waaay back up there): Now I know that LA has a Chinatown, and I'll BET that white folks go there and eat with chopsticks without shocking anyone. ...

Possibly. But LA's Chinatown, unlike San Francisco's, is a fake tourist-trap for the most part, so I wouldn't count on it. :) And as a counter story, I once visited Oxford in England, and dined at a Chinese restaurant there (my mid-Western American flatmate had never eaten Chinese. This obviously needed to be rectified). And had the entire staff coming out to take a look at me because not only did I have a Chinese face and ordered mostly in English, using only Mandarin for the dish names--I was an American. Not sure, however, that I'd judge Oxford to be a burgeois backwater on this evidence, though. ;-)

Back to LA. If you really want good Chinese food in LA, you gotta go to Monterey Park. Now, in Monterey Park, they're likely to only be impressed if you're a roundeye who orders in Mandarin. I'm personally planning on taking some time out from LACon to eat at Tung Lai Shan. Best damn da bing I've ever had. (BTW, I remember years ago TNH had a thread here about Kosher Chinese food (link). My recommendation to those wanting treyf-free, yet authentic Chinese cuisine would be look for a Muslim Chinese restaurant. You may still have to watch the seafood (is eel treyf?), but lamb and beef dishes abound, and the breads are terrific.)

Teresa, 146.203.130.11 when entered into a WHOIS at dnsstuff.com popped back with:

OrgName: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
OrgID: MSSM
Address: One Gustave L. Levy Place
Address: Mailstop 1102
City: New York
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10029-6574

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