Re: Announcing my new Sci-fi Book

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Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote
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Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote

Should be interesting if only to see if I get it to work,
though of course if it's cheaper than buying one new that
would be nice. But I'll have to get a TV card first
(however that may cost), and move into a new flat with
SPACE! :)

Mabye $100, last I checked. Might be cheaper now.

For that I might be able to buy a DVR, if I had the money to
spend on such stuff.

There is that. The homemade ones are a lot more versatile,
especially if you want to save stuff on on DVD. And prices may
well have come down a lot since the last time I looked.

I'll have to ask that friend about a used one. It's how I
usually get new hardware, or even really new stuff - he got me
the DVD player, a new one, too. He knows where to get what
cheap.

A quick search at Amazon indicates prices (new) now start about
about $20.

Depends on who you ask. According to the big media
companies, the point of the recorder is to extract more
money out of you, the consumer, for something broadcast for
free ues.

ues?

Use.

I can't get that to make sense however often I read it. What
are you supposed to do with the recorder, just let it stand
around?

They don't get what they want, at least not yet, but that
doesn't stop them from wanting to charge you for everything. If
they could, they'd charge you for *not* watching TV.

LOL.

A network executive (forget which network), not too long ago, said
that anybody who went to the bathroom during commercials was a
thief. He wasn't joking.

A lot of stuff is. And we could really do without some stuff
swapping over the pond.

It's mutual. Europe has willingness to trust their
government(s) that most Americans could easily live without.
Britain is the worst, with more cameras than people, but all
of Europe is heading that way.

We should petition to Things Staying On Their Side, from both
sides of the pond. Let's build a wall, right through the
Atlantic! <g>

With land mines, machineguns and sharks with frikin' lasers on
their heads.

Indeed! (Better abuse dolphins for that, though. I like sharks.

Ah, but sharks *like* lasers on their heads. Lasers are *kewl*.

The sharks can keep an eye on the dolphins to do their job, and
catch any that get past.)

You do realize, I hope, that dolphins usually win that fight (if
only because they normall travel in packs, or pods, while sharks
are usually solitary - but also because dolphins are fucking *mean*
when pissed.)

Higher resolution screens, usually bigger. The shape of
things to come. 16:9 ratio, like movie screens.

Ow. Don't like that. (Mainly productions made that way; too
large a picture.)

Sucks to be you.

I like it that way. We should both be happy that you're not me.

It's literally the shape of things to come, whether you like it or
not.

They're the majority. I blame evolution.

I'm sure evolution is suitably embarassed.

<g>

I'm sure evolution doesn't give a damn. Or might actually be
proud of itself, getting all species to just breed and breed
and breed, without sense or purpose.

Without an actual purpose, perhaps, but I'll bet there's a
*sense* of purpose. Like people. evolution might well be an
idiot.

That sounds so very true. :)

One of the best examples is some fish I've seen in a
documentary. Lives somewhere deep down, the female is big,
the male tiny, and just attaches itself to the female
(growing into some mere nub produding from the female, being
sustained by her bloodstream), whose sole purpose it is to
inseminate (is that the right word?) the eggs when laid.

Or whatever critters that were that die right after they've
produced offspring.

Of course it's rather nifty proof that the so-called
commandments of the Santa Claus for adults were, in fact,
made up by people (if that isn't obvious already, what with
the nature of people). Parents exist solely to create
offspring, no offspring is there to honour parents.

And women are, literally, a plot of dirt to be ploughed and
planted like any other.

Sounds like one particular bad guy in some SF story, one I've
read. One of the few characters I liked.

Sounds like virtually all religious fundamentalists. Including most
of the women.

Too bad that women still think that's a good thing. (One of the
aspects that make me feel not part of their species.)

I'm certainly not interested in anyone who believes their sole
purpose in existing is to perform a biological function that
virtually every living thing can do.

I'll stop here and take cover before the flames reach me. <g>

Heh.

Hey, how about you ward them off? <g>

But I *like* the flames.

I prefer the megalomaniac outlook, though.

So do I, but that doesn't make us any less idiots.

I couldn't possbly admit to that. Kind of doesn't agree with
being megalomaniac.

Your denials only prove me right, you know.

It would be a bit much to expect to agree on everything.

Well, since I'm perfect, and thus always right, the only way we
could agree on everything is if you're perfect, too.

Don't underestimate my curiosity for the weird.

"That which as been seen cannot be unseen."

True. Being forgetful helps, though. I remember not wanting to
have seen or learned about something, but can't recall what
that was.

Do not *ever* go to Google and search for "2 girls 1 cup." Or
tubgirl.com. I guess goatse.ex is gone now, for not paying
their ISP.

Now I'm curious. (But will probably forget.)

You really *don't* want to know.

You enable people to do bad things.

I just can't be bothered. It's still just people after all.

There it is. You enable them by not slapping their silly heads
when they do stupid things. All your fault.

That violates one of my principles. (I only have two; 1. I'm
always right, and 2. It's all your fault.)

And it wouldn't make any difference anyway, not for me.

Heh.

They flaunt their flaws claiming it makes them just
perfect.

And? Do you believe them?

I can see and make up my own mind.

But it's their minds we're talking about.

What minds? <g>

That's why they have to make them up.

Ah, right.

Not that I care what some stranger looks like (or even
people I know - I don't even look properly at people I
know, or strangers) that's entirely their business. I just
think it stupid of them to publicly announce their
obviously delusional claims, as if they could force anyone
to agree.

If there weren't people like that in the world, we'd have no
politicians.

It's not them but the folks believing them that's the problem.

And? Without politicians, we'd have no one to blame.

I don't blame them, I just don't like them.

If I blame anyone, it's people buying books I don't like so what
I like will never hit the shelves because the usual crap has
plenty of customers.

You could just read the mass market crap until you like it.
Drinking drain cleaner might speed the process.

in the end I didn't even bother to fill the prescription for
pain pills.

Why would you need them after it's over?

It takes days for a root canal to heal enough to not be
throbbing in pain. It hurts less than the abcess, true, but
still it hurts.

Must be a differnt built, even the thing I didn't know the word
for (I suspect abcess might be it) didn't hurt in any memorable
way (if at all) once getting it out it was over. Perhaps some
dull pressure like thing, but no real pain (similar to pulled
teeth). Just root canals don't hurt because the point of it was
to remove the nerve that feels the pain.

Perhaps you're just lucky. Or a freak of some kind.

Reminds me of the time the dentist pulled one wisdom tooth
which had one root bent like a tiny foot and was clinging
to the jawbone beneath it. Though I think the time he had
to scrape out some thing I don't know the English word for
out of the jaw (front upper part) was worse. He couldn't
anaesthecise (is that the right word?) the bone.

Had a friend whose roots all curled around the jaw bone. The
dentist had to take a chisel and crack it in to four pieces,
and perform surgey to remove each pice.

Ow.

He was more pain resistant than me, and said it hurt.

I have no doubt of that.

Fortunately, I've never had any problems with root canals.

They suck.

Mine just made a slightly crunchy noise (more feeling it than
hearing it).

That's not good.

It's very good; it doesn't hurt. :)

It's just the feeling of the tiny little barbed pin scraping
around inside the tooth to get the nerve out. Anaesthecised, I
don't feel any pain, only the motion.

Dentists have many, many ways of making us suffer for the sin
of bad gentics.

Heh. Yeah.

I'm not sure whether it's all genetics in my case, though. My
Dad has bad teeth (so I could have gotten his), but my
so-called mother doesn't.

The bad genes seem to be the more powerful ones.

One would think that evolution could have done a better job by
kicking bad teeth out of the pool. Didn't people used to die of
bad teeth? But it probably took too long to die; they could
breed first.

I'm sure there's some evolutionary purpose to bad teeth. No idea
what it is, but there has to be.

What could you have sued them for, though, what was the
illegal thing they did?

They sent a bill that had been paid to a collection agency,
knowing they had 11,000 bogus bills they'd sent out (bad
computer upgrade). Some form of fraud, or perhaps defamation,
or whatever. In any event, I could have asked the court to Make
Them Stop.

Nice.

It worked.

"Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts,
industry, justice and skill."

She's usually portrayed as ass kicking hot.

Ah, well. I like the wisdom, arts, justice, and skill more
than hot, though. War's ok.

It's the ass kicking-ness that makes her hot, I expect. That,
or big boobs, depending on the artist.

LOL.

Well, the only picture of me I'm willing to openly show online
has a grumpy cat-head instead of mine, and no boobs visible at
all. <g>

You are just *no* fun at all.

Now, that wasn't well thought out, was it; for that I'd have
to move! <g>

Yeah, well. Cats often feign laziness, too, unless there's
play to be had.

I'm just a cat-person, not a cat, though. :)

A bit catty, though, at times.

At times, yes. But usually grinning rather than scowling.

I'd be more intereseted in the "licking yourself" part, but that's
probably a bit too optomistic.

In southern California, even the green isn't green. (It's the
native plants. They have a high amount of certain oils common
to desert plants, that makes them much darker green with a
brownish tinge. Or it's just tradition - everything here is
brown: the trees, the grass, the air, the people.)

Heh.

That could actually be useful to know. (The starting place of
one of my stories is set on the equivalent to somewhere
around LA - on a parallel Earth. Not that there's any
vegetation in the city, or that it couldn't have been changed
by someone who can, there, but still.)

There's a surprising amount of "greenery" (brownery?), even in
the most densely populated parts of LA. Unlike most older
cities, Los Angeles grew up in to a "big city" after the
invention of the automobile, and grew out instead of up. Most
housing developments are required to have small parks all over
the place.

Sounds nice, or at least intended to be pleasant.

More "isn't as bad as it could be," but yeah.

(The parallel thing has had a different history for around 10k
years, so no LA and no parks. Thus the natural landscape, minus
what immigrated on our world, is interesting. The result is
that plus what was changed by those who could.)

Just keep in mind, the LA basin is basically a desert (not quite a
sand desert like the Sahara, but very dry), with a natural
inversion layer that makes it naturally polluted even without
mankind.

--
Terry Austin

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more ***."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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