Not quite a meme
May. 17th, 2017 08:22 amI was just reading an interview with John Waters in the NYT that was linked to by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thesarahscope, and they asked him the following question:
You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?
It's a question I've seen in one form or another many times, but never really thought about, much less answered. So I'd have to say: Isaac Newton, Jane Austen, and Isaac Asimov.
How about you?
thesarahscope, and they asked him the following question: You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite?
It's a question I've seen in one form or another many times, but never really thought about, much less answered. So I'd have to say: Isaac Newton, Jane Austen, and Isaac Asimov.
How about you?
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Feb. 23rd, 2017 08:23 amReading discussions about yesterday's news from NASA yielded numerous bon mots, but this one was the best by far:
"Well, someone with the last name Cochrane needs to take one for the team and name their child Zefram."
We're still here.
"Well, someone with the last name Cochrane needs to take one for the team and name their child Zefram."
We're still here.
Release the hounds!
Feb. 13th, 2017 08:11 pmIt's night #1 of the Westminster Doggie Show. Fun and games abound.
Mary Tyler Moore
Jan. 26th, 2017 07:30 amI was too young to really know Laura Petrie; I only saw her in reruns. But Mary Richards ... she arrived at just the right time to be a big influence on the young women of my age group. She was the best example we had seen yet of how to turn the rhetoric into every day life.
Rest in peace, Mary.
Rest in peace, Mary.
CBS Sunday Morning just did a feature piece on virtual reality headsets, which were apparently the big seller this holiday season. Based on what they showed of the typical experience, I'd say that they are much improved over the ones that were first introduced in the nineties, but can't begin to compare with even the most rudimentary holodecks.
Carrie Fisher
Dec. 27th, 2016 02:24 pmI really don't have anything to add to everything that will be written about her over the next few days except this, as per her stated wishes:
"She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."
Rest in peace, Carrie; I always liked you so much more than I liked Leia.
"She drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra."
Rest in peace, Carrie; I always liked you so much more than I liked Leia.
Honest to God, I think the only people whose stupidity irritates me more than the Trumpsters are the ones who continue to insist (despite all the evidence to the contrary) that "Bernie would have won!"
Please stop waving your ignorance in public.
Please stop waving your ignorance in public.
Meanwhile on Vulcan ...
Nov. 14th, 2016 10:51 pmTonight, the Friday Night Dinner Group went to see the restored/reimagined/animated Second Doctor series "The Power of the Daleks". This series is important to Doctor Who because it was the first one starring Patrick Troughton, and the first time regeneration was used to change actors in the role. The actual tapes of the series had been lost but there were still photos and, thanks to the fans, complete audio tapes of the entire six episodes in the series. It was originally broadcast in 1966, so the BBC decided to bring it back as an animated series for the fiftieth anniversary.
It was shown on the big screen tonight, all two hours and forty-five minutes of it, and it was great. Original Who had a certain je ne sais quoi that New Who is sorely lacking, and which I often miss. Plus it was a Dalek series, and how could that be a bad thing? As I said, the Daleks throw a great party, so who cares if it's always the same one?
Best of all, the action takes place in the Human colony on the planet Vulcan. NBC and the BBC, perfect together in 1966. :)
It was shown on the big screen tonight, all two hours and forty-five minutes of it, and it was great. Original Who had a certain je ne sais quoi that New Who is sorely lacking, and which I often miss. Plus it was a Dalek series, and how could that be a bad thing? As I said, the Daleks throw a great party, so who cares if it's always the same one?
Best of all, the action takes place in the Human colony on the planet Vulcan. NBC and the BBC, perfect together in 1966. :)
