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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Meme Dump...9 minutes ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
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Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
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- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
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- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
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- Hey, Look--
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- Dear People Inside My TV
- They'll Be Nailing Shut The Front Door
- Overheard In The Office
- I (Still) Aten't Ded
- And The Verdict Is...
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- "And When You Come Out Of That Coma, It's A Whole ...
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- Commander In What?
- So, I Asked Tam
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What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
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"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
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--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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8 comments:
Good morning, Ms. X.
Here's hoping the symptoms continue to abate, and that you feel much better today.
How about a total change of subject? I just finished re-reading an old favorite, Harry Harrison's "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah". He manages to throw in a few other SF authors as characters (Brian Aldis, Arthur C. Clarke) and includes the direct descendant of one of my favorite Empire-era engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. My copy is a first paperback edition from 1972, and the acid-filled paper is starting to get a little crisp.
I read this because I picked up a beautifully-bound hard-cover (with box-cover) edition of "The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft" and plowed through the whole thing. I needed some lighter reading after nothing but eldritch horror stories, most of which I'd never read before.
I'm not sure, but I'm wondering if Harrison's novel isn't the genesis of the entire steampunk genre. Nuclear reactors and rocket ships in the British Empire, yay!
Good idea, working on it.
Harrison's novel is the way it is not for Steampunk reasons but in order to facilitate the circumstances that make the construction of the tunnel sociopolitically feasible: steampunk almost by accident, and not all that much steam by the time of the novel, save for steam created by atomic energy. Here's some background.
K. W. Jeter may have written the first intentional Steampunk with Morelock Night. His later Infernal Devices is more steampunk than most steampunk: lots of clockwork and actual reasons (at least for some values of "reason") for all of it.
Earl: "Working on it" is about as good as I ever get at it. It's a noble aspiration!
Roberta:
Thank you so much for that link to Harrison's essay. That's why I love dropping an occasional comment here, I always learn something I'd never have known.
Regards,
Blackwing1
Morons gonna moor and idiots gonna id.
I also work on it but I admit there are times my ability suffer fools lightly wears perilously thin.
If we could figure a way to hedge the market betting on morons being morons we would all be rich until hyperinflation struck or the banks changed the rules and got themselves bailed out by the government.
Have you seen "The Big Short"?
JayNola, I have not -- but it looks interesting. I'll check it out.
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