I've kept up with your humour books for some time (I started with Dave Barry Slept Here). Out of the blue I find myself with a copy of Tricky Business this past Christmas. I looked at my girlfriend and said "You're kidding right?" I mean... Dave Barry... write serious fiction? C'mon! (I didn't know about Big Trouble until I read TB's introduction)
But, I was pleasantly surprised. I plowed right through it. Good (if somewhat light) book.
Do you have any plans to keep up with more titles in this genre? Any currently in the works?
As I read it, I couldn't help thinking that Tricky Business would make a pretty good made-for-TV movie. Any plans to push this to the small screen?
When I first got Black & White, I was up late... say 2 or 3 AM, procrastinating for an exam... I was happily watering trees & keeping villagers happy. I had shut off the CD music, and a few other things, so depending on where in the map I was, there wouldn't be much sound.
"Peeeeteeerrrrr....."
Huh? Who said that?..... go back to watering trees.
A few minutes later:
"Peeeettteeeerrr...." in this etheral breathless woman's whisper.
I bang on the wall to get my roomate (who is also playing). "SAM! DID YOU HEAR THAT?" "No. what?" "Someone is saying my name. Sounds like its coming from just inside my door....." "Dude, you're on crack. Go to bed."
Needless to say it kept going on... say every 3-4 minutes. I was getting rather distressed.
Turns out, after posting this to the B&W forums... the damn game reads your Windows login from the registry and whispers it to you every now and then.
Isn't this what the alberta supernet is about? Albeit, to government, and public facilities (and not to home... yet, although thats a viable future) - This being extended to the home I think is definately forseeable since while the Alberta government is footing a big chunk of the initial tab, its Bell Intrigna that will take it over - and the Alberta government has promised revenue streams to Bell for the next 10 yrs or so.
Theres been much speculation on the skill of the pilots involved in yesterday's horrible attack. Or on passengers on the PA flight overpowering the hijackers. Etc. We may yet find out about the flight in PA and possibly the one in DC at the Pentagon, but it is unlikely that the two jets in NY will bear many results - the black boxes are unlikely to survive.
I dug into airliner black boxes last year after the Concorde disaster and I found some interesting stuff:
called FDR - flight data recorders
they're not black - orange or red.. easier to find in the debris.
withstand an impact of 270 kts (3,400 G decceleration) - from the videos, those airliners were doing 350-400+ knots easy (but Im only an armchair pilot - what do I know)
withstand 1,100 deg. C fire for up to 60 min. Much analysis was done on the structural failure of the WTC - 1,500+ deg. fires caused that steel to buckle. Does not bode well for the FDRs.
That, and now they lay under tons of rubble. Or, they could have been vapourized. Then again, I don't think I really want to know about the last terrified moments of those poor souls (unless the terrorists were discussing bin Laden's address and phone number before they died)
Here's a bit about these amazing little boxes: Whups... some of these appear to be stale - but you could probably still google them.
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I've kept up with your humour books for some time (I started with Dave Barry Slept Here). Out of the blue I find myself with a copy of Tricky Business this past Christmas. I looked at my girlfriend and said "You're kidding right?" I mean... Dave Barry... write serious fiction? C'mon! (I didn't know about Big Trouble until I read TB's introduction)
But, I was pleasantly surprised. I plowed right through it. Good (if somewhat light) book.
Do you have any plans to keep up with more titles in this genre? Any currently in the works? As I read it, I couldn't help thinking that Tricky Business would make a pretty good made-for-TV movie. Any plans to push this to the small screen?
"Peeeeteeerrrrr....."
Huh? Who said that?..... go back to watering trees.
A few minutes later:
"Peeeettteeeerrr...." in this etheral breathless woman's whisper.
I bang on the wall to get my roomate (who is also playing). "SAM! DID YOU HEAR THAT?" "No. what?" "Someone is saying my name. Sounds like its coming from just inside my door....." "Dude, you're on crack. Go to bed."
Needless to say it kept going on... say every 3-4 minutes. I was getting rather distressed.
Turns out, after posting this to the B&W forums... the damn game reads your Windows login from the registry and whispers it to you every now and then.
Isn't this what the alberta supernet is about? Albeit, to government, and public facilities (and not to home... yet, although thats a viable future) - This being extended to the home I think is definately forseeable since while the Alberta government is footing a big chunk of the initial tab, its Bell Intrigna that will take it over - and the Alberta government has promised revenue streams to Bell for the next 10 yrs or so.
I dug into airliner black boxes last year after the Concorde disaster and I found some interesting stuff:
That, and now they lay under tons of rubble. Or, they could have been vapourized. Then again, I don't think I really want to know about the last terrified moments of those poor souls (unless the terrorists were discussing bin Laden's address and phone number before they died)
Here's a bit about these amazing little boxes: Whups... some of these appear to be stale - but you could probably still google them.