Ah, I had the ocular migraines years ago. Very odd experience. Spent a fortune to assure I wasn't going blind.
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems. Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
'Safe'
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.
Laura - Mar 11, 2005 3:33:49 am PST #5812 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
vw bug - Mar 11, 2005 3:36:25 am PST #5813 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Oh, poor sj! Glad it was something fairly easily fixable.
DEENA! Did you get my message? I'll try to call during my break today. Mwah!
brenda m - Mar 11, 2005 3:36:36 am PST #5814 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Oh, that's a relief.
Deena - Mar 11, 2005 3:39:23 am PST #5815 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
One of Aidan's therapists had one come on while he was there at the sight center. It seemed very strange.
I bought a new cordless telephone so I could use a headset when I'm talking to a client and have my hands free. I hate the stupid thing. You can't control the volume of the ring or the voices, and when someone leaves a message it sounds an ear-piercing beep every 3 minutes or so.
I think I'm going to kill it today, right after I plug the old phone back in.
eta: erm, yes. I got your message. What a funny x-post.
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2005 3:41:50 am PST #5816 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Glad sj is all good.
Beej has a new tag.
Gris - Mar 11, 2005 3:50:29 am PST #5817 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Does Snow Crash count as cyber-punk? It's very cyber, and a bit punk. And definitely a fantastic read.
I think it counts as cyber-punk, on 1.7 seconds of reflection.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 11, 2005 3:58:59 am PST #5818 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Nora, you made me want my Nana back, not that I ever don't, but grandmothers totally get it. Your grandmother is wise, discerning, completely right, and rocks.
Amen!
She knows...God only knows how she knows, but she knows.
Well, when Tom and I moved in together (not married), there was a bit of a wonder about what to say to Grandma about it. The sex before marriage thing, or co-habitation, is not really her reality. I just figured that she'd ignore what she needed to ignore, and denial is a wonderful thing. It turnded out, my dad came up to Tom at some family function we'd gone to CT for, and said all covert, "Grandma knows... and she's OK with it!"
Cute!
Grandmas know all!
Polter-Cow - Mar 11, 2005 4:18:57 am PST #5819 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The hell?
Of course Snow Crash is cyberpunk.
The question is whether Cryptonomicon is cyberpunk.
Gris - Mar 11, 2005 4:21:04 am PST #5820 of 10001
Hey. New board.
Oh dear. By the time you get to Cryptonomicon, classifying Stephensen's stuff as ANYTHING, even Science Fiction, is hard. It's historical-science-drama-action-fiction. That holds even more for Quicksilver et al.
But I'd say that Cryptonomicon is definitely not cyberpunk. Not enough punk. Not enough cyber in the sense of the metaverse-style cyber, either.
Steph L. - Mar 11, 2005 4:35:36 am PST #5821 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is something of a precursor to the genre, and is otherwise an excellent book.
I actually read that in college, for my Sci-Fi Cinema class. (Seriously.)