David Foster Wallace was found dead. Police say he hanged himself. He was 46.
I hear the MIT first years have to restore the Hapsburgs as their biology lab practical.
I'm usually a wild-eyed techno optimist, but can we all agree that this is not tech that should trickle down to the Scadians, etc.?
No, one keeps them there because the basement is already full of ghouls.
Doesn't one?
I suppose it depends on your household layout. I only have one ghoul, and it seems quite content in the crawl space next to the kid's room. Plus, it helps the kids develop an active imagination.
I dunno. Depending the dino's surface area coverage relative to the roof, it might make good insulation. Of course, one needn't feed normal insulation.
"5. The wall is the structure; you have to be careful when making holes."
My understanding is that the corner pillars are what support the weight, the walls are just thin sheets. This is why proper loading of containers is important, shifting loads have been known to punch holes through the sides. However, on a container ship there is an external frame that keeps all containers aligned so that the loads are transmitted vertically through the stack which can be 8-10 containers tall.
Maybe the gondola-squids are microscopic creatures engineered to serve as transports inside a neutron star for equally miniaturized humans, some of whom have turned to piracy and who make their captives walk the sub-Planck.
Ohh... I see room for a crossover/collaboration with Egan - political considerations cause some of the tiny pirates to use some other class of tiny pirates as experimental subjects involving a black hole, a time scale so short that it is hard to image (alternately, an art project lasting until the heat death), and interpersonal conflict of the sort that goes on when one person in a family gets too in to renfests.
Apologies if my diacritics decohered before it was welcome - as mentioned, my connection to the net is slow, and some intramessage loss is statistically slominate, if not reempathized coherently at critical graph junctures.
OK, I'll stop now. In other news, it seems that aside from the publishing schedule (which I really know nothing about, so can't say) Peter Watts' Blindsight seems to actually hit a lot of these themes.
Thank you for your positive review of my work. Since my network connection is slow and expensive, I don't often partake in full sensory interface, and sometimes miss important messages. However, my work investigates the important influence of of the congruence of hexapodia and the regulatory amiphlage that precedes ablative dissonance, and the role of unisexuality as a transliteration method. I'm proud and humbled that I have won all those awards at once - it give me hope that we will intubulate further with the rest of the galaxy soon.
Emplazigotic returns,
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Hmmm... I was happy with myself for finally realizing the bit about hospitality and sharing of food, than read Sandy B.'s excellent explanation. Sharing of food is something that defines us as members of the group that shares food. It must be tied fairly deeply to our evolutionary psychology; if we didn't share food, we'd be a bunch of hermetic misanthropes, like orangutans.
One thing to consider: Hungry folk are easily annoyed, and don't like being teased or cross-examined.
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