The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Soon Lee:

Here's to the fall of the wall.

When we went to see the WATCHMEN movie, it triggered memories of how times have changed and how dated the movie felt. The graphic novel was published during the latter stages of the Cold War (though we didn't know it at the time). It was a time of fear & anxiety, living under the shadow of MAD.

I remember the TV coverage of the riotous celebrations of Germans dancing and taking to the wall with hammers & chisels.

The initial disbelief gave way to relief, that maybe the world wasn't going to end in nuclear fire after all. Like waking from a prolonged bad dream. The joy came later.

Pendrift #555:
I especially like the description of a 'used' one available for the cheap price of $2499.

Stefan Jones #57:

Spook Country read like a paean to brand-name-dropping to me.

Marilee #24:
Not a writer either. I find that I'm better as a test-reader. Besides, my yeast-wrangling* day-job is taking up most of my mental real estate at the moment.

*Originally a typo: yeats-wrangling. Subliminal poet-ry?

Summer Storms #350:

Glad you found a fix.

Summer Storms #326:

Pity. I've had good success in the past using the compatibility mode to convince Vista to run software from earlier versions of Windows. In your post #347, you mentioned, "thus-and-such.exe has stopped working". Is that "thus-and-such.exe" part of Html Kit? If so, have you tried changing "thus-and-such.exe" to run in compatibility mode as well?

Also, if Html Kit comes with an installer program (like 'setup.exe'), you might want to try uninstalling Html Kit and reinstalling but running the installer in compatibility mode. I've used this tactic successfully for software that explicitly says is not Vista compatible. Once installed, I then changed the properties of the executable to run under compatibility mode, and finally managed to get it to work.

Normally, I wouldn't have bothered but it was an important piece of software needed for work & the PC running the software died. The replacement PC was a Vista box. The answer to the question "Why couldn't we just get another XP box as replacement?" is "mindless bureaucracy".

Hope this helps.

Summer Storms #247:
Apologies if it's too basic (and already attempted) but have you tried running the program in "compatibility mode"?

Right-click the program icon, click on properties.

Select the compatility tab, check the box for "run this program in compatibility mode for", and select appropriate OS version from the drop-down menu.

Click "Apply", "Ok", cross fingers and try running the program.

Xopher #365 and others:
Elemeno P are a New Zealand band. Nothing kinky or twisted about them AFAIK.

This Auckland spring morning is a cool 14C[*] (57F), with a predicted high of 20C (68F), 100% humidity, and though currently fine and sunny, rain[**] is on the way. The peach blossoms have been and gone and the days are getting steadily longer and warmer.

[*]Any chance you'll join the rest of us and adopt the metric system?
[**]The reason New Zealand looks so green is because we get a lot of rain.

Terry Karney #562:
Given that it's a promotional tool, some hyperbole is not unexpected. I seriously doubt that all the sequences are at the maximal frame rate, though the site does claim to be able to achieve a million fps.

The Alan Sailer images provide quite the contrast between the functional & the artistic.

Me #539:
Life-like...

More Open threadiness - a youtube clip showing high speed (million frames/sec) footage of bullets hitting various materials.. Looks like stones splashing into water and rather poetic.

Open Threadiness:
Like-like dinosaurs* played by humans from German programme "Wetten, dass..?"


*But not sodomy as far as I can tell...

Serge #513:

Transformaretion?

Metahorsephosis?

So the club members have been vacillating?

Joel Polowin #498:

Not sure if it's been suggested before but have you considered making the mosaic onto to an egg-shaped base? I was thinking of something like the ostrich egg mosaic shown here.

In agreement with the majority view; hope he will come to fully deserve the award. Haven't yet seen much commentary on the announcement that he will donate the money to charity.

"Philip K. Dick wrote this letter after seeing his first glimpse of Blade Runner in a television segment."

Insightful.

I am also reminded of words Gibson's Japanese guide said to him on seeing Shibuya's nightscape, "Bladerunner town, like Neuromancer". For me, Dick, "Bladerunner" & Gibson occupy the same mental real estate.

Terry Karney #8:

Have you tried Facebook Lite? It's Facebook for 'low bandwidth connections' but for me, its selling point is the lack of whizz-bang third-party add-ons, games etc.

In New Zealand, prisoners can vote provided their sentence doesn't exceed three years.

Jo Walton #110:
If his usual protocol was to scuff socks on carpet prior (as described by Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little #108), then the non-touching behaviour is entirely sensible.

Julie L #725:

My version:

A few years ago, our place was burgled. We lost a bunch of stuff but the insurance mostly covered the financial loss (except for a number of items we hadn't realised were missing when we filed our claim); the sentimental items were a different story.

The Crime Scene officer who came to dust for prints mentioned that in his long years of attending such scenes, he had never been to one where the items stolen were books.

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