Thena @ 5,
Exactly! I'll probably never do anything about it for all the usual lame reasons, but I have what feels like a decent idea for a book. If I ever do start writing it, it will be in large part because of the Slushkiller post. I figure I'm at least a 9 on that scale. Why not go for it?
Jonathan
How excellent! Of course, Jimmy later gained vengence on the rabbit following the Pepsi Syndrome.
That Elijah mold is the business. My choir is singing "Elijah" in February and is having a bake-sale fund raiser. Hmmmm. $65 + UK shipping is probably prohibitive but I'm so tempted.
Happy Birthday to my youngest nephew Toby who is 5 today.
Emily @ 31: Since I now live almost 4,000 miles from Madison, I can no longer get the New Glarus beers. Please do me a favour and on a nice hot day have a Spotted Cow (ideally at the Terrace but what have you). Or maybe a Crop Circle Wheat at the Great Dane? And does anyone remember Eau Claire All Malt? That was good.
Speaking of Madison microbrews, becoming a shareholder of Capital brewery is a great deal. No profits or anything but the annual shareholder meeting is a blast.
The best thing about the bank is how it's really Brooklyn flipping the bird to Manhattan. Hard to do skyscrapers without Manhattan schist.
I burned through the HTML version last night. (And sent Cory a typo note which he responded to immediately; he should get away from the machine! But then, so should I.) The first few infodumps annoyed me a bit because I already knew much of the geekness. But I'm a 40yo nerd who once had dinner with Phil Zimmerman and a bunch of other crypto guys and heard the infamous lap dancing story. I quickly realised the exposition was very deft. It doesn't derail the story but provides more than enough information to allow anyone interested to start googling and learning. The only thing I found jarring was the Wolfenstein reference. Surely that is way too old for a 17 year old even one today?
I agree that the book doesn't isn't "about" politics. But it is politicsing. Maybe even radicalising for a few. I predict many banings!
Also, while I don't think it was at all cynical (really!), IF it was, dedicating each chapter to a *different* bookstore was brilliant marketing!
All in all, very good. I'm sendin one as a gift to a 13 year old niece. Who knows?
Bruces @ 34 and 54: I think you both have an awfully cynical view of cynicism. G'day.
Maybe it is a sorry kind of wisdom. But a kind of wisdom it is. "A cynical man, with much to be cynical about."
I know I'm a bad person but I'd love to see a 2-ct. Tiffany ring lying on a table next to the iconic bue box in a very art-deco-ish style. That would be hilarious.
More seriously but probably not feasibly is a depiction of the ascent of Orodruin in the style of the Alfred Wainwright guidebooks. I don't know anything about bookbinding (chicken foot leather? Really? Cool.) but I wonder if there's enough "resolution" to imitate pen-and-ink.
Snowmobiling is one of those things that I was sure I was going to hate. Oh man was I wrong. They are great aside from the noise (which is a pretty big aside though I haven't experienced anything made this century). If someone made a snowmobile that was as quiet as cross country skiing I'd move WAY north. I need a fuel-cell powered snow mobile!
I'm sorry, a mere 2 drops of vermouth means it isn't a Gibson. It's a straight gin drink with trace impurities and an onion. Which is still pretty good but not a member of the Martini genus. And for those who like scotch and cheese, sometime try a paired tasting of an excellent stilton and a cask-strength whiskey (diluted with a few drops of water to lower the surface tension and increase the nose). Delicious.
midori, 138:
I could do that. But I don't actually want to hear what they have to say about the Nash Metropolitan. Rather, I wish to put words in their mouths in a manner that reinforces my prejudices and is reasonably amusing. For example, Cory's would be some sort of Haunted Mansion-themed papercraft Metropolitan. Or something.
I dunno.
There are a LOT of posts at Boing Boing that rub me the wrong way. And judging the people by the blog, I doubt I'd really get on with any of them. And sometimes, I get a bit irritated because their blog should CLEARLY be about "x" instead of "y". And I've even been tempted to comment to that effect. But I always stop.
Why? Because what would be the point? It's *their* blog. They aren't my upsatairs neighbours being loud. They write a blog. And it is, in my view, often self-indulgent (in a bad way) or boring or pointless. So what. Their blog, not mine. I read it in Google Reader and zip through the whole thing in a couple of minutes once a day. I get the tidbits I like and ignore everything else. And nobody has to put up with MY self-indulgent twadle that criticises THEIRS. I think we can agree that less twadle is a victory for everyone.
All that said, I am still composing the ultimate Boing Boing parody post IN MY MIND where each Boinger (?) gets a Nash Metropolian and then writes about it.
Reading the headline in Google Reader, I immediately assumed this would relate to the discovery of a cache of Elizabethan slash fanfic featuring the Capulets and Montagues. Although I am pleased that a decent fanfic piece appeared in a newspaper, I am still bitterly disappointed.
#7 See Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_upon_the_deep#The_zones_of_thought
#7 See Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_upon_the_deep#The_zones_of_thoughthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_upon_the_deep#The_zones_of_thought
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