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This is from Kim Stanley Robinson's Sixty Days and Counting
The Bank guy was going on about differential costs, "and that's why it's going to be oil for the next twenty, thirty, maybe even fifty years," he concluded. "None of the alternatives are competitive ( Read more... ) -
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Reading the rest of Kim Stanley Robinson's 40-50-60 trilogy right now. It's slow going, especially since I read "Forty Signs of Rain" a while ago; these aren't quite page-turners, so it took some persistence to get back into it. But I'm halfway through "Sixty Days and Counting" now, so I think I'll finish it all ( Read more... ) -
Gears
Imagine doing a Tom Kundig-style 'gizmo' for an operable building component (like the crank to open the window from the Chicken Point Cabin - see below), but instead of just having an exposed mechanism, add to that using the oddly shaped and improbable gears from "Quilty1987" from BoingBoing. That could be quite something.
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OQAS
I read almost exactly half of "Surface Detail," Iain M. Banks' latest Culture novel while I was traveling to take care of my brother's affairs. And it was, in part, almost eerily appropriate:
"There had always been specialist sub-divisions within the organisational behemoth that was Contact. Special Circumstances was only the most obvious and, ( Read more... ) -
My Country Song
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Lamps of Parts
Over the years, I've built a couple of lamps using EMT (metal conduit), electrical boxes, plain ceramic socket, and assorted fittings and pieces. The first one I built when I was out in LA, and was a tall-ish (maybe 4' tall) reading light kind of fixture. (I'm not sure whatever happened to it, but I don't think it came back from the West Coast ( Read more... ) -
Game of Thrones Trailer
George R R Martin (grrm) posted a clip of the Game of Thrones trailer:
http://grrm.livejournal.com/178461.html
It's going to be a series on HBO in 2011. I don't have cable, so I'm not going to get to see it directly, but maybe I can find someone who has HBO and find a way to watch it.
