dude you are gonna attract sickos. but maybe you like that.
fish eye.
Anybody can be a prop class clown.
Xander ,'Touched'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2004 7:42:43 am PDT #803 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 25, 2004 7:45:22 am PDT #804 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hey, one person's personal ad is another's invitation for new, guiltless victimssparring partners...
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2004 7:45:59 am PDT #805 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Attracting sickos would be a step up for me.
And Matt has a point.
Daisy Jane - Jun 25, 2004 7:56:24 am PDT #806 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
How do you eat cooked carrots if not steamed? I can see sauteed maybe in nutmeg and pepper.
Also think raw are the best.
DXMachina - Jun 25, 2004 7:58:40 am PDT #807 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Steamed carrots are da bomb.
Allyson - Jun 25, 2004 8:07:45 am PDT #808 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I like steamed carrots with butter. And soggy mushy carrots in chicken soup. Raw carrots make me sad, it takes entirely too long to chew them, and I've no patience.
msbelle - Jun 25, 2004 8:11:38 am PDT #809 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ita may be the poster child for "it takes one to know one".
Daisy Jane - Jun 25, 2004 8:13:19 am PDT #810 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
But raw carrots have that outer/inner ring thing going. I used to love eating the outer ring first and then the inner ring when I was younger. Now I mostly eat baby carrots so it's much harder to do that- not that I've tried.
Betsy HP - Jun 25, 2004 8:20:11 am PDT #811 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My husband does a killer carrot dish. Cut the carrots into juliennes, mix with julienned ginger, and cook slowly in butter until they're shriveled up into little tiny shreds of carrotty goodness. You have to shred a LOT of carrots first; I think they shrink in volume by about 2/3.
Consuela - Jun 25, 2004 8:23:04 am PDT #812 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm off topic, having nothing to say about carrots, but Ginger you're right, I meant McDevitt. I loved Engines of God, have liked each subsequent novel a little less, and really need to track down A Talent for War.
James P. Hogan is another Big Ideas hard-sf writer. As is Frederick Pohl.
And yeah, Cherryh is consistent with her science, although she varies on whether the science is the primary issue: I agree that it was for Cyteen, whereas in other places, not so much. 40,000 in Gehenna was anthropological fiction, although most of the Alliance novels do deal with the impacts of ftl travel, cloning, and the longevity drugs. The Chanur novels are probably the least hard-sf among her sf, since they're primarily novels of culture clash, political intrigue and adventure, where the science basically dictates the background and travel constraints.