"They are blessed to have you! I'm not prejudiced. I'm just looking at the facts!"
She's right, of course.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2005 4:10:32 pm PST #5748 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jen - Mar 10, 2005 4:11:04 pm PST #5749 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
WOO NORA!
(Those aren't asscaps, they're awecaps.)
Cashmere - Mar 10, 2005 4:11:39 pm PST #5750 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Which, I confess, I still don't understand. If it's low-tech, how is it cyberpunk?
Hard to explain. The book the Diamond Age is set in the future that is filled with very advanced nanotechnology, but some groups of people adhere to different lifestyles that embrace Old World craftsmanship and beauty. It's a bizarre mix of the low and the high tech.
William Gibson (the father of Cyberpunk) also peppers his stories with people that embrace low tech along side of high tech genetic manipulation. Sometimes by idealism, sometimes by necessity.
Ginger - Mar 10, 2005 4:13:16 pm PST #5751 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Cyberpunk also contains a strong element of living outside of the system.
StuntHusband - Mar 10, 2005 4:13:50 pm PST #5752 of 10001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Alfredo is a saint with more patience than Pete. I'm *not* kidding. I'm moody, tempermental, prone to loud outraged shouting at the computer screen when reading the news or (gods forbid) LiveJournal or when playing video games (sometimes, Some People in my EQ guild are SOOOO STUPID I wonder why their brainstems haven't KILLED THEM out of pity). He never fails to laugh at me and keep on keepin' on.
I don't REALLY completely forget his birthday, but I do have to ask him 'when exactly is it?' and this year he turned the tables on me.
Me: "My birthday's on a Thursday this year."
Him: "What day is that?"
Me: *boggles* "My birthday is April 1st - how can you forget THAT date?"
Him: *smirks*
Me: *threatens to hit him with a giant plush microbe*
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I learned to deny Jilli all her dangerous-toy requests when Pete threatened to take his violent tendencies out of Halo/Halo 2 and practice them on me in real life. I believe him. He's taller than me and can be *very* convincing.
(I got him good, though, dressing up as a Magic card character at their *wedding* - a character he painted. *snicker*)
Nora Deirdre - Mar 10, 2005 4:14:04 pm PST #5753 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
She's right, of course.
Damn straight, you don't get to be 88 years old without knowing some stuff.
Cashmere - Mar 10, 2005 4:17:19 pm PST #5754 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Cyberpunk also contains a strong element of living outside of the system.
The best description I ever read of Cyberpunk is that it's a combination of high tech and low life.
P.M. Marc - Mar 10, 2005 4:25:33 pm PST #5755 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Trivial baby discovery of the day: Depeche Mode causes more squirming and kicking than Eminem.
I feel like I should be taking notes and then repeating the musical experiments after she's born.
Sean K - Mar 10, 2005 4:35:42 pm PST #5756 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
OMG, that vest Aimee linked to was GORGEOUS, and I need one.
Which, I confess, I still don't understand. If it's low-tech, how is it cyberpunk?
Arguably the most central theme to cyberpunk is man's increasingly interdependant relationship with technology. One of the ways they address that theme is by examining the weaknesses and flaws in our technological systems. Ultra low tech methods of defeating high-tech security systems is a very cyberpunk concept.
Whenever you declare a thing, you automatically invoke its opposite.
eta: For both Tep and Cindy!
beekaytee - Mar 10, 2005 4:40:25 pm PST #5757 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Sean, two things. One...mind if I tag your last line?
Two...Malcolm Gladwell tells a great story in his new book "Blink" about the retired general who used low tech methods to wipe up the floor with the opposition in the 2002 war games. (500 million dollar systems brought down by couriers on motorcycles and flashlights on runways. Hooyah!)