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.
There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.
Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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.
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
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!)
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2005 4:41:32 pm PST #5758 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Teppy's tag made me blanch, then laugh like a drain.
Heh. I *adore* Adam, and he's mineminemine, no matter what Ginger says!
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.
Okay, I kind of understand that. At least, a little more than I had before. I feel that's progress.
Sean K - Mar 10, 2005 4:49:21 pm PST #5759 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
One...mind if I tag your last line?
Sure, but....
I didn't actually make that up. I'm pretty sure I got it from some other philospher or writer. I don't remember who, but somebody else said it.
So, tag away, just don't credit me for saying it.
Okay, I kind of understand that. At least, a little more than I had before. I feel that's progress.
You know, I can recommend some excellent books....
Ginger - Mar 10, 2005 4:50:23 pm PST #5760 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I *adore* Adam, and he's mineminemine, no matter what Ginger says!
He's mine, I tell you. Mine mine mine.
-t - Mar 10, 2005 4:53:17 pm PST #5761 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Woo-hoo, Nora! That's wonderful!
My brother gave DH a beanie baby elephant ('cu they never forget) that shares my birthday (it's on the tag). It works.
Deena - Mar 10, 2005 4:54:39 pm PST #5762 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Hey! I got into Boston College for grad school!
WHEEEEE! Yay for Nora. I knew you would. Your grandma is a smart cookie.
SailAweigh - Mar 10, 2005 4:59:07 pm PST #5763 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Go, Nora! Very good news.
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2005 5:03:45 pm PST #5764 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay, I kind of understand that. At least, a little more than I had before. I feel that's progress.
You know, I can recommend some excellent books....
What would you recommend as a Cyberpunk Starter Set For Someone Who Hasn't Read Anything Particularly Technology-Related, Not Even Asimov, In Over 20 Years?
Say, 2 or 3 books, please, not 14?
I *adore* Adam, and he's mineminemine, no matter what Ginger says!
He's mine, I tell you. Mine mine mine.
Bring it, babycakes. I'll fight you for him....