Re: Announcing my new Sci-fi Book

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

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.

I just gave him 30 euro and told him he can keep the rest (because
he'd bring it right here, too). He knew of some place where they
cost 24 euro or something, and had some coupons as well to save more
(I never quite understood his exact explanation, but he got ten euro
out of it).

I wouldn't want to buy something online. (My Dad's big on ebay,
selling and buying in general, too. That's one trait I didn't get
even a hair of. He got me Torchwood season one off ebay cheap. :) )

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.

I vaguely remembering reading or seeing something along that line.

It's still funny. (That, or enough to feel completely doomed. I
prefer funny.)

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*.

LOL.

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.)

Dolphins are mean anyway.

We'll just have to single them out, and set a pack of sharks to look
after it. And if it's good, it won't serve as meal for the nice
sharks at the end of the day.

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.

You'll become me? World! Take cover!

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.

<sigh>

I don't belong to that species. I truly don't.

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.

That, too. I keep wondering why people congratulate on that.

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.

That makes it perfect; you get all of mine to play with, too. How
about it?

(Not that I ever felt like receiving a flame, even though some
sender might have thought they wrote one.)

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.

Of course I'm perfect. Did I forget to tell you?

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.

I trust you're right, but I'm still curious. How about you just tell
me?

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.

I've read the crap until I no longer liked it.

Drinking drain cleaner might speed the process.

Probably. Would probably be more pleasant, too.

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.

Definitely freak. (Mutant, again.)

Shows in painkillers, too. Ibuprofen isn't worth taking (next to no
effect), while Paracetamol works moderately well to good (depending
on how much pain there is - always talking about 1 pill here), on
back-ache even (which I once bought Ibuprofen for, which then failed
to do much good so next time I tried the Paracetamol I normally only
take when I get a headache worth noticing).

Some substances I tried in my youth also didn't quite have the usual
(claimed) effect.

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.

Getting rid of the people once they've bread and raised the
offspring, of course. :)

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.

LOL.

Very gracious of you to still be talking to me. :)

(I refrain from offering the boot thing again, or else you'll just
come rushing in with a camera again.)

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.

Heh.

The first thought upon reading that was that you were talking about
dogs, and I had to go back up to see what prompted it.

(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),

Shrubs, hard-baked sand, or...?

with a natural inversion layer that makes it naturally polluted
even without mankind.

I'm a bit at a loss guessing what an inversion layer is.

Not that either couldn't have been tweaked (by someone with the
ability to, in the story). The main reason I placed the city there
was that it was the only one I was sure has major earthquakes (which
was the reason to place it there by the founder, in the story).

The ocean next to it was definitely _not_ the reason to place it
there (quite the opposite), because of some discussion here once
with someone claiming everyone everywhere settles near water.
(There, settling near water is a bad idea.)

--
(Chaeron) "I'll see whether I can't get Chastan to bargain a little with me."
(Ghareg) "Be sure she leaves you your clothes, the people here seem to think
not wearing any mighty odd." -- Seasons & Elements II: Controlling the Magic
Excerpts at: <http://home.htp-tel.de/fkoerper/ath/athintro.htm>
.