Jesse is a super trooper for even trying.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Feb 06, 2006 7:47:31 am PST #5292 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2006 7:52:22 am PST #5293 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse is a good friend.
Extra terrestrial art. How irritating. Like conceptual art, some of it based on science, is a new thing, and no one spends time thinking about what it could be like out there, except for this one chick.
Jesse - Feb 06, 2006 7:53:56 am PST #5294 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Eh. At least I got a nice walk out of it.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2006 8:00:14 am PST #5295 of 10002
Er, what's irritating? The tone of the article or the fact she got a book out of it?
An old professor of mine used to hire himself out as a consultant to science fiction writers who wanted to get the science as accurate as possible. He used to do visualizations for them as well. They were pretty neat.
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2006 8:03:09 am PST #5296 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The tone of the article
That. She's not special--anyone with either an imagination or a history of reading SF (OR, not XOR). In fact, there are big floaty gas giant aliens in the book I'm reading right now. So hers have polka dots. Whatever.
As for her getting a book--power to her.
Gudanov - Feb 06, 2006 8:13:11 am PST #5297 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
I've read a book with big floaty gas giant aliens too.
le nubian - Feb 06, 2006 8:13:16 am PST #5298 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
from lifehacker:
A University of Chicago study shows that people overestimate their ability to convey tone in email messages.
Study participants recorded messages vocally and wrote them in email messages. The message recipients’ success rate at understanding the tone of the message was significantly higher verbally than via email.
"The reason for this communication disconnect, the researchers find, is egocentrism–the well-established social psychological phenomenon whereby people have a difficult time detaching themselves from their own perspectives and understanding how other people will interpret them."
Ginger - Feb 06, 2006 8:14:26 am PST #5299 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
She's not special--anyone with either an imagination or a history of reading SF
That article is written as if Chesley Bonestell [link] never lived, not to mention any number of other space artists.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2006 8:14:28 am PST #5300 of 10002
It was framed oddly (it took me a moment to figure out why this was particularly noteworthy, and then OH! she has a book out.. on the second read.)
We hire people to do what she does all the time, including, I suspect, her.
Jars - Feb 06, 2006 8:18:12 am PST #5301 of 10002
Stupid wisdom teeth are stupid.
Also, my batfact's at number one! Yay me.