Re: Announcing my new Sci-fi Book

Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote in
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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 don't think we're talking about the same thing any more. The TV
tuner cards seem to start around $20 now. Makes the homemade DVR
much cheaper.

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.)

So do US courts, which settled the matter long ago.

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.

And shars, being cool themselves, need cool fashion accessories.
Though, of course, lasers generate a lot of heat, but they're so
hot they're cool.

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.

Yes. They are predators. They eat other fish.

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.

Heh.

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!

Heh. I'm not *that* open minded. Besides, if I had tits and a
vagina, I'd never get out of bed.

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.

It's good to have a dream.

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.

It seems rather too common, to me, to qualify as a miracle.

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.)

John Scalzi (an increasingly well known sf writer) has always
scored the hate mail he gets on his blog. In fact, I believe he
just published an updated book of it.

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?

How could you have forgotten, if you're perfect? But then, how
could *I* have forgotten you told me, if I'm perfect?

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?

Porn not not involve those bodily functions.

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.

Clearly, a sign of your freakishness. Normal people just become
addicted, and need more and more.

Drinking drain cleaner might speed the process.

Probably. Would probably be more pleasant, too.

Most certainly. If nothing else, there's a definite end to the pain
that way.

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).

Ibuprofen works well on the inflamation in my shoulder. Less so the
pain.

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. :)

Possibly.

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'm bored.

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

I am consistent, if nothing else.

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.

Cats lick themselves, too, just in more places. But they do it
constantly.

(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...?

Dirt, with desert-y plants, mostly scrub. Sorta like savannah, but
with less plant life (and fewer large animals, too).

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.

LA is a basin surrounded by mountains. The temperature inversion
layer is an atmospheric effect that kind of cuts off the air inside
the basin from the surrounding area, so there's a *lot* less
natural air circulation from normal air currents. It means that any
pollution in the air, natural or otherwise, tends to stay around.

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).

Changing that requires changing the geography quite a bit, or just
ignoring atmospheric physics.

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.)

It is next to the biggest ocean on the planet, you know.

--
Terry Austin

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

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.
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