grew up in the american south and have hunted since i was able to keep my.410 single-shot from dragging the ground, under the very watchful eyes of father, uncles, and grandfathers.
since then, have _always_ owned pistols and/or shotguns and/or rifles, including, most importantly, the ones i inherited from my grandfathers.
i can still tell you the exact time and place i picked up my first sci-fi read.
i was thirteen, in junior high school, and it was Heinlein's "The Star Beast". that was decades ago.
been hooked ever since. don't always have time for it, but always come back to it.
don't live in the parent's basement or fit any other definitions of hardcore nerd- or geek-dom, but picking up that first sci-fi book (and i subsequently read _all_ of heinlein, hebert, asimov, campbell, pournelle, niven and the rest) definitely started me on a path to looking at the world with different eyes.
the guys that write sci-fi (especially in the "golden age") are/were genuine pioneers of thought. fuck disney; they're the _real_ imagineers.
i can't recommend more highly turning your kids on to a "thinking out of the box" genre like sci-fi.
as to which first? don't know; times change, but you see where i started, for better or worse.
hell, i'm just glad someone wants their kids to actually read.
God, apparently, is not dead; he has sent/.er's Dvorak to replace Jon Katz as the silly-assed guy running around out there with the target painted neatly on his back.
For those of you thinking "Jon who?"...
You're new here, aren't you?
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landlines are completely optional if and when cell phones will work reliably in a blackout or a hurricane (been there, done both). so you're okay 99% of the time, but how incrementally does the value of an intact communications link rise during such crises? more to the point, what incentive does the cell service provider community have to provision such reliability? apparently very little, thus far.
and i'll confess i haven't the foggiest idea of the tech impediments to their doing so, and therefore i'm just randomly whining with no offer of solution.
I'm also in Manhattan. Would I abandon my overpriced one-bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen for my three-bedroom lakeside cabin in the Adirondacks (okay, so I either thought ahead or I'm just plain lucky) to do more or less the same work with insanely less expense? Well, yeah.
Of course, I'd miss the music and preaching and human urine on the subways as much as the next guy, but you can't have everything.
That said, yeah, I actually _like_ The City, with all its good and bad, even though I'm a native Southerner. However, last time I checked, you really don't tumble off the end of the earth at the municipal border.
Hell, from what I hear, they've even got broadband outside major metro areas now. Go figure.
given the current state of high tech movie design, and the very visual nature of the ringworld, do we foresee a chance at a movie? certainly, there are many financial questions involved, but it seems a likely artistic candidate, from the unitiated viewer's view.
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warms my heart to see the classic /.-isms kept alive. or at least kept as zombies.
bingo.
grew up in the american south and have hunted since i was able to keep my .410 single-shot from dragging the ground, under the very watchful eyes of father, uncles, and grandfathers.
since then, have _always_ owned pistols and/or shotguns and/or rifles, including, most importantly, the ones i inherited from my grandfathers.
haven't shot anyone yet.
then again, i haven't been to europe. ;)
you are obviously one of my former executive bosses.
and as i recall from my mba-garnering days:
q: what do you get if you lay every economist in the world head to toe in a line snaking, it would seem, around the globe?
a: nothing....they'd never reach a conclusion.
now i will duck as you throw things in my general direction. ;)
hell, has everyone forgotten that any spare cd/dvd player _is_ a handy-dandy retractable cup holder?
oh...my...god...i'm not the only one surviving, then.
and look at us now, out here on the interweb tubes with all these young yahoos (no pun intended).
BOFH, obviously. duh. and quite cleverly disguised.
i can still tell you the exact time and place i picked up my first sci-fi read.
i was thirteen, in junior high school, and it was Heinlein's "The Star Beast". that was decades ago.
been hooked ever since. don't always have time for it, but always come back to it.
don't live in the parent's basement or fit any other definitions of hardcore nerd- or geek-dom, but picking up that first sci-fi book (and i subsequently read _all_ of heinlein, hebert, asimov, campbell, pournelle, niven and the rest) definitely started me on a path to looking at the world with different eyes.
the guys that write sci-fi (especially in the "golden age") are/were genuine pioneers of thought. fuck disney; they're the _real_ imagineers.
i can't recommend more highly turning your kids on to a "thinking out of the box" genre like sci-fi.
as to which first? don't know; times change, but you see where i started, for better or worse.
hell, i'm just glad someone wants their kids to actually read.
John Dvorak.
Duh.
God, apparently, is not dead; he has sent /.er's Dvorak to replace Jon Katz as the silly-assed guy running around out there with the target painted neatly on his back.
For those of you thinking "Jon who?"...
You're new here, aren't you?
landlines are completely optional if and when cell phones will work reliably in a blackout or a hurricane (been there, done both). so you're okay 99% of the time, but how incrementally does the value of an intact communications link rise during such crises? more to the point, what incentive does the cell service provider community have to provision such reliability? apparently very little, thus far.
and i'll confess i haven't the foggiest idea of the tech impediments to their doing so, and therefore i'm just randomly whining with no offer of solution.
suggestions?
I'm also in Manhattan. Would I abandon my overpriced one-bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen for my three-bedroom lakeside cabin in the Adirondacks (okay, so I either thought ahead or I'm just plain lucky) to do more or less the same work with insanely less expense? Well, yeah.
Of course, I'd miss the music and preaching and human urine on the subways as much as the next guy, but you can't have everything.
That said, yeah, I actually _like_ The City, with all its good and bad, even though I'm a native Southerner. However, last time I checked, you really don't tumble off the end of the earth at the municipal border.
Hell, from what I hear, they've even got broadband outside major metro areas now. Go figure.
campus servers. bofh. ring a bell?
Hell's Kitchen. Figures.
looking for a change?
Design for the Lord!
Time Travel Testing
V.P. Ops Afghanistan
given the current state of high tech movie design, and the very visual nature of the ringworld, do we foresee a chance at a movie? certainly, there are many financial questions involved, but it seems a likely artistic candidate, from the unitiated viewer's view.