Actually, from Lithos' map it appears the only parts of Australia worth visiting are Sydney and the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme. And fair enough too.

WG to his agent: "Adaminaby???"

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Originally posted by colin:


Teacher: "Look kids! Look at the leopard!"

colin: "Uh. That's a jaguar. Says so right here."

Teacher: "Look, Kangaroos!"

colin: "They're wallabies."

Teacher: "Look at the cute monkeys!"

colin: "Lemurs! Fucking lemurs already!"

This should have been in the Short Short Stories thread. Haven't laughed like that in ages! You make us all real proud!

Mmmmm, leeee-murs.... Crispy, fried leeee-murs...

I'll take the credit for the return to blogging, under Murphy's Law: I just removed my bookmark for the blog because it was looking moribund, so of course it restarted!

Edit: In case it's not clear, dis bist ein Jöke.

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Strange happenings in the sea. State keeps winking at the Church. Apple gives in and delivers a two-button mouse.
And, new blog entries.

Repent now. Want more signs of the end times?

/fuldog gets restrained and taken away from keyboard

The mouse signals end-times alright. Of that I'm certain.

Hey Mr. G., whenever anyone at Epic is asked when the new version of Unreal Tournament is coming out, they always respond "Two weeks!"

'Twas good to read the blog again. And Colin's short story contribution to this thread was hilarious!

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Repent now. Want more signs of the end times?

/fuldog gets restrained and taken away from keyboard

By Men in black suits,escorted by lemures and rats, always the rats.The church winks back.

Hey, whaddya know? I go away for a couple days and The Man comes back. Welcome back!

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State keeps winking at the Church.

There is, of course, more than one theory in Intelligent Design.

Note that link is slightly pirate-related.

It's a relief to hear a novel is in preparation. Having read all the books twice at least, I've been reduced to re-reading his articles like the one where he confesses being hooked on eBay, and the "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" feature.

gil, I would love to read that e-Bay addiction article, if you have a link. I am just getting over a year's addiction to e-Bay myself.

I remember the D-land w Death Penalty article. "Zero tolerance."

For tigerstripes, and anyone else who hasn't read it, WG on his e-bay obsession/addiction.

Enjoy.

Enjoy? Indeed.

From that article:

"In Istanbul, one chill misty morning in 1970, I stood in Kapali Carsi, the grand bazaar, under a Sony sign bristling with alien futurity, and stared deep into a cube of plate glass filled with tiny, ancient, fascinating things.

Hanging in that ancient venue, a place whose on-site café, I was told, had been open, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, literally for centuries, the Sony sign - very large, very proto-Blade Runner, illuminated in some way I hadn't seen before - made a deep impression. I'd been living on a Greek island, an archaeological protectorate where cars were prohibited, vacationing in the past.

The glass cube was one man's shop. He was a dealer in curios, and from within it he would reluctantly fetch, like the human equivalent of those robotic cranes in amusement arcades, objects I indicated that I wished to examine. He used a long pair of spring-loaded faux-ivory chopsticks, antiques themselves, their warped tips lent traction by wrappings of rubber bands.

And with these he plucked up, and I purchased, a single stone bead of great beauty, the color of apricot, with bright mineral blood at its core, to make a necklace for the girl I'd later marry, and an excessively mechanical Swiss cigarette lighter, circa 1911 or so, broken, its hallmarked silver case crudely soldered with strange, Eastern, aftermarket sigils."

That prose is definitively WG, I think.

Thanks so much, hsuan!

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Thanks so much, hsuan!

My pleasure.

Hot off the RSS wire, the Wired article by The Man is now online.

Thanks for the heads up.

even after all his books, i can't get over the sense of wonder he infuses into technology descriptions. it doesn't feel as if he's describing today's gadgets, it still feels like science fiction.

i don't like the frase "the future is now", since it so obviously isn't, but if anybody can make it sound like it, it's mr. gibson.

Aah. Like a good kick of oxygen.

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"... but part of the deal would be that subscribers could only watch us if we can watch them, through their home webcams, and then we'd all get to watch those images"

That would be fun. And scary. "This concert brought to you courtesy of Panopticon, Inc."