So, yeah. The real world's been a callin', and this eljay thing's getting old.

Ta.

30,000. This is the number of Iraqi casualties that George W. Bush will admit to.

For a perspective, go here. Scroll down...and keep going.

Break-nose street-fight at the edge of town.

Any takers?

Dark Matter exists, people.

The science-nerd in me is going *glee*.

Tinman, one of my characters, jumped out and knocked me to the ground with a kick to the jaw.

"Stop being a pansy and start writing!"

Someone fetch me hands from half-life places!

I need to work before the others follow Tinman's lead.

Seo é an deireadh scéal an domhain.

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From a neuroscience take/review of A Scanner DarklyThink about it this way. Everything that you have ever been or ever will be, everything you have loved, every preference, every joy, every sweet or sordid memory is contained in a squishy mass of about 1.5 kg. That squishy mass is so fragile that whiplash can mortally wound it and so demanding that ( Read more... )

Now, it seems to me that you do less harm by dropping bombs on people than by calling them ‘Huns’. Obviously one does not want to inflict death and wounds if it can he avoided, but I cannot feel that mere killing is all-important. We shall all be dead in less than a hundred years, and most of us by the sordid horror known as ‘natural death’. The ( Read more... )

That N. Korea is testing missiles is no suprise, and brought this to mind for some reason, can't imagine why:


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