Girl Genius 6/25
Dorothy J Heydt
The scene changes again:
Not up on the main site yet, but visible here.
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20080625.jpg
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djh...@kithrup.com
Quadibloc
> The scene changes again:
>
> Not up on the main site yet, but visible here.
>
> http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20080625.jpg
Ah, yes. I've been looking for old GG discussions, and I saw the one
that mentioned "cheating".
This _is_ an unexpected pleasure, as I had feared that it might be
necessary to keep us in the dark over how much progress Agatha was
making, so that the Castle could surprise everyone in the nick of
time.
John Savard
Quadibloc
>
> Not up on the main site yet, but visible here.
>
> http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20080625.jpg
Just picked up the TPB of volume 6 today, as my comic store got some
in.
From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
http://project-apollo.net/mos/
A world of mad scientists again, but this one is a romance with
adventure instead of an adventure with romance - and it is more
serious, although not without humor.
This saga probably has a few years to go before Agatha and Gil
infiltrate the Geisterdamen, and finally end the threat of the Other
once and for all; the current stage in the plot might well be the
*halfway* point in Agatha's initial adventure.
John Savard
Bengt Larsson
>On Jun 24, 9:06 pm, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>> The scene changes again:
>>
>> Not up on the main site yet, but visible here.
>>
>> http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20080625.jpg
>
>Just picked up the TPB of volume 6 today, as my comic store got some
>in.
>
>From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
>
>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
David DeLaney
>Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
>>
>>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
>
>Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
A Miracle of Science? Oh yes, seconding the recommendation. Mad science as
a _syndrome_...
Dave "and a detective who's recovered from it" DeLaney
--
\/David DeLaney posting from d...@vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower
It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
Wim Lewis
David DeLaney <d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote:
>A Miracle of Science? Oh yes, seconding the recommendation. Mad science as
>a _syndrome_...
"Narbonic" (another webcomic) also has Madness as a recognizable syndrome
(but with pretty different epidemiology than the MoS syndrome --- is
"epidemiology" the word I'm looking for here? the statistics of its
occurrence.) Anyway, I quite enjoyed it.
--
Wim Lewis <wi...@hhhh.org>, Seattle, WA, USA. PGP keyID 27F772C1
Wayne Throop
:: Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
: A Miracle of Science? Oh yes, seconding the recommendation.
: Mad science as a _syndrome_...
Well... "disorder" not "syndrome", to pick a small nit.
Science Related Memetic Disorder, SRMD.
Today's (uh, friday's) Questionable Content
might be considered a GG reference...
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1173
Come take a ride in my beautiful baloon
We'll use the deathray to burn our names into the moon
Hold London to ransom, turn Paris into a crater
We'll land at the Acropolis for tea and crumpets later
--- Society for Creative Rock Anachronism
"It's like steampunk rock"
"And then their melodithurge plays
a totally bitchin' steam-whistle solo."
Wayne Throop thr...@sheol.org http://sheol.org/throopw
Mike Van Pelt
>>
>>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
>
>Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
And best of all (or, perhaps, worst of all) it is
*completed*. The whole story is there. No nail-biting
cliffhangers until the next update.
--
Mike Van Pelt | Wikipedia. The roulette wheel of knowledge.
mvp at calweb.com | --Blair P. Houghton
KE6BVH
Dorothy J Heydt
Mike Van Pelt <m...@web1.calweb.com> wrote:
>In article <sno564l8igp0c9hhd...@4ax.com>,
>Bengt Larsson <bengt...@telia.NOSPAMcom> wrote:
>>Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>>>From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
>>>
>>>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
>>
>>Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
>
>And best of all (or, perhaps, worst of all) it is
>*completed*. The whole story is there. No nail-biting
>cliffhangers until the next update.
Except for the wait that's been going on howevermany months for
"Afterlife Blues" to get started.
Mark_R...@hotmail.com
> Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> wrote:
> >Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >>From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
>
> >>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
>
> >Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
>
> A Miracle of Science? Oh yes, seconding the recommendation. Mad science as
> a _syndrome_...
Which reminds me: is there a way of rating or ranking mad scientists
and where does Syndrome place?<g>
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
Syndrome is a gadget-oriented supervillain. He's not a mad scientist.
--
Sea Wasp
/^\
;;;
Live Journal: http://seawasp.livejournal.com
Quadibloc
> Which reminds me: is there a way of rating or ranking mad scientists
> and where does Syndrome place?
Place or show at best, if Eclipse is running.
John Savard
Wayne Throop
: Syndrome is a gadget-oriented supervillain. He's not a mad scientist.
What's the diagnostic differential for that?
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
Mad scientists do what they do because ... well, it's SCIENCE! MAD
SCIENCE! They can't really help it, whether it's because they have SRMD,
the Spark, or because they've been bitterly wounded by the fools at the
Academy and have to Show Them All that they were Wrong.
Syndrome does what he does specifically because he wants to be a
superhero. The super-inventions are purely a side-issue; it's part of
his tragedy that he doesn't realize that he could be lionized and
admired for his amazing abilities, just not as a costumed do-gooder.
Even being a supervillain is a stopgap, from HIS point of view, to
becoming a superhero (and then, eventually, eliminating
superhero-concept from the picture by giving everyone superpowers
through technology).
He has a touch of the Fools at the Academy business about him, but
really it's much more personal than that, and much more self-hating than
that.
Mike Van Pelt
My impression was that was going to be a new, unrelated story.
I do check every now and then to see if they've started
posting it, though. No luck yet.
"Miracle of Science" had an ending that I found satisfying.
It could possibly have a sequel. I would love to see a
sequel, actually. But it doesn't need one.
Quadibloc
> The scene changes again:
And what with today's page, the second at the new scene, what are the
odds that Omar von Zinzer will (unintentionally) fail to abide by
Agatha's last instructions to him?
John Savard
William George Ferguson
wrote:
How likely is it that the Pope would be a member of the Catholic Church?
Von Zinzer's primary job in the story is 'hurt yourself'.
I do think Agatha could use another pair of (non-dingbot) hands in a
miniony way. She should pull in Wilhelm (and I would imagine that Wilhelm
would be willing, I mean, which would you rather minion for, that pink
creature, who shoots her own minions, or Agatha, who manages to keep von
Zinzer alive in the most dangerous parts of the castle).
--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
(Bene Gesserit)
Quadibloc
wrote:
> How likely is it that the Pope would be a member of the Catholic Church?
I believe that in the universe in question, the probability is equal
to 1/7.
John Savard
Quadibloc
wrote:
> I do think Agatha could use another pair of (non-dingbot) hands in a
> miniony way. She should pull in Wilhelm (and I would imagine that Wilhelm
> would be willing, I mean, which would you rather minion for, that pink
> creature, who shoots her own minions, or Agatha, who manages to keep von
> Zinzer alive in the most dangerous parts of the castle).
I rather suspect we will eventually be seeing more of Wilhelm soon
enough, but Agatha may have to defeat the pink creature first for her
to be in a position to switch allegiances.
I noted that the time portal Agatha saw showed a creature whose hands,
at least, reminded me of von Pinn's, but who didn't seem to resemble
von Pinn in any other way. The figure was linked to the castle
somewhat as Carson von Mekkan was, but without her eyes being covered
by a helmet - so, rather than von Pinn doing a Carson von Mekkan,
another possibility has occured.
If the Heterodyne boys had a nursemaid in fetish gear, perhaps - tied
in to some sort of spark/gaslight-era information system - beyond the
door marked Biblioteca is a construct constructed in accordance with
the "sexy librarian" meme. It is not actually all that likely we will
meet the being seen through that portal as soon as next week, but as
it is at least a slim possibility, I thought I'd go on record.
John Savard
Wayne Throop
: I rather suspect we will eventually be seeing more of Wilhelm soon
: enough, but Agatha may have to defeat the pink creature first for her
: to be in a position to switch allegiances.
As long as he doesn't scream.
William George Ferguson
'
ITYM 'she' (in this case)
Quadibloc
wrote:
> ITYM 'she' (in this case)
And eventually we might find out if Wilhelm is some sort of construct,
resulting from a fiendish experiment, or if the name is just a
shortened form of Wilhelmina (the alternative, Wilma, being avoided
because of certain associations for typical Americans that would be
distracting).
John Savard
Dorothy J Heydt
I'm missing something. The only Wilma I can think of (other than
a very dumb young woman I went to school with) is Wilma Shiras,
who got an 'r' tacked to the end of her name by the typesetter
because he couldn't believe that a woman would be writing stories
for _Astounding._ What am I overlooking?
Stewart Robert Hinsley
<djh...@kithrup.com> writes
Wilma Flintstone, I suspect, but Colonel Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers
is another possibility. (Wikipedia is our friend.)
>
>Dorothy J. Heydt
>Vallejo, California
>djh...@kithrup.com
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley
Wayne Throop
: I'm missing something. The only Wilma I can think of (other than
: a very dumb young woman I went to school with) is Wilma Shiras,
: who got an 'r' tacked to the end of her name by the typesetter
: because he couldn't believe that a woman would be writing stories
: for _Astounding._ What am I overlooking?
Flintstones. You're forgetting the Flintstones. They're a modern
stone-age family. From the town of Bedrock, they're a page right out
of history.
And by "right out", I mean Right Out.
http://images.google.com/images?q=wilma
Dorothy J Heydt
Ahhhhh yes. Thanks. Never watched the first, watched the second
a lot in the eighties.
Quadibloc
> In article <wQRrs5XXgkZIF...@meden.invalid>,
> Stewart Robert Hinsley <{$new...@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> >In message <K36E7n....@kithrup.com>, Dorothy J Heydt
> ><djhe...@kithrup.com> writes
> >>In article <e930f4c8-0db1-45a4-819a-ecf257806...@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
> >>Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >>>On Jun 28, 12:41 am, William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@newsguy.com>
> >>>wrote:
>
> >>>> ITYM 'she' (in this case)
>
> >>>And eventually we might find out if Wilhelm is some sort of construct,
> >>>resulting from a fiendish experiment, or if the name is just a
> >>>shortened form of Wilhelmina (the alternative, Wilma, being avoided
> >>>because of certain associations for typical Americans that would be
> >>>distracting).
>
> >>I'm missing something. The only Wilma I can think of (other than
> >>a very dumb young woman I went to school with) is Wilma Shiras,
> >>who got an 'r' tacked to the end of her name by the typesetter
> >>because he couldn't believe that a woman would be writing stories
> >>for _Astounding._ What am I overlooking?
>
> >Wilma Flintstone, I suspect, but Colonel Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers
> >is another possibility. (Wikipedia is our friend.)
>
> Ahhhhh yes. Thanks. Never watched the first, watched the second
> a lot in the eighties.
His suspicions were right; while Wilma Deering indeed is also a well-
known fictional character, the Flintstones, along with other popular
cartoon characters - Bugs Bunny, Huckleberry Hound, and so on... never
mind the *Disney* characters - are just about ubiquitous in popular
consciousness. So it was indeed Wilhelmina, the wife of Frederick, of
whom I thought.
John Savard
Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)
Wilma Flintstone would be my guess, the cartoon version of Alice from
The Honeymooners.
William George Ferguson
wrote:
>On Jun 28, 12:41 am, William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@newsguy.com>
If the Foglio's cast list
(http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/cast/cast07.php)
is counted as canon (or, this being usenet, cannon), then she is "Sanaa
Wilhelm: A prisoner within Castle Heterodyne".
Quadibloc
wrote:
> If the Foglio's cast list
> (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/info/cast/cast07.php)
> is counted as canon (or, this being usenet, cannon), then she is "Sanaa
> Wilhelm: A prisoner within Castle Heterodyne".
Ah, her *last* name. I remember noting in that the answer to another
mystery - that a certain member of the travelling Heterodyne show is
actually a nice Italian girl. So the spontaneous "Hoka Hey!" was just
her remaining profoundly in charcter, even at a very emotional
moment...
John Savard
Tim McCaffrey
<e930f4c8-0db1-45a4...@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
jsa...@ecn.ab.ca says...
Grandmother went by.
- Tim
Quadibloc
> In article
> <e930f4c8-0db1-45a4-819a-ecf257806...@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca says...
> >And eventually we might find out if Wilhelm is some sort of
> construct,
> >resulting from a fiendish experiment, or if the name is just a
> >shortened form of Wilhelmina (the alternative, Wilma, being avoided
> >because of certain associations for typical Americans that would be
> >distracting).
> The other alternative to Wilhelmina in Minnie, which is what my
> Grandmother went by.
Ah. I didn't know that; but, of course, that has even stronger
distracting associations of the same type. Of which I am reminded
whenever I move the cursor without using the keyboard.
John Savard
William George Ferguson
wrote:
>On Jun 30, 10:58 am, timcaff...@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) wrote:
Sorry, I'm not familiar with Wilhelmina Trackball (or was that
Touchscreen).
Of course, Minnie can also be short for Minerva, which leads us mercifullly
straight to Wonder Woman.
Quadibloc
wrote:
> >> The other alternative to Wilhelmina in Minnie, which is what my
> >> Grandmother went by.
> >Ah. I didn't know that; but, of course, that has even stronger
> >distracting associations of the same type. Of which I am reminded
> >whenever I move the cursor without using the keyboard.
> Sorry, I'm not familiar with Wilhelmina Trackball (or was that
> Touchscreen).
But who has not heard of Minnie Mouse? In all the United States, is
not her name inescapable?
Well, at least some people, in some parts of the world. Like those
who, according to videos on YouTube, are being told that Mickey Mouse,
under another name, was killed by the Israelis...
John Savard
Quadibloc
wrote:
> Of course, Minnie can also be short for Minerva, which leads us mercifullly
> straight to Wonder Woman.
On the other hand, if we want to suffer a roundabout path, we can end
up at Mytilene.
John Savard
P. Taine
<wmgf...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:46:37 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca>
>wrote:
>
>>On Jun 30, 10:58 am, timcaff...@aol.com (Tim McCaffrey) wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <e930f4c8-0db1-45a4-819a-ecf257806...@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>>> jsav...@ecn.ab.ca says...
>>
>>> >And eventually we might find out if Wilhelm is some sort of
>>> construct,
>>> >resulting from a fiendish experiment, or if the name is just a
>>> >shortened form of Wilhelmina (the alternative, Wilma, being avoided
>>> >because of certain associations for typical Americans that would be
>>> >distracting).
>>
>>> The other alternative to Wilhelmina in Minnie, which is what my
>>> Grandmother went by.
>>
>>Ah. I didn't know that; but, of course, that has even stronger
>>distracting associations of the same type. Of which I am reminded
>>whenever I move the cursor without using the keyboard.
>>
>>John Savard
>
>Sorry, I'm not familiar with Wilhelmina Trackball (or was that
>Touchscreen).
>
>Of course, Minnie can also be short for Minerva, which leads us mercifullly
>straight to Wonder Woman.
Not Minnie the Moocher?
Dimensional Traveler
>
> Well, at least some people, in some parts of the world. Like those
> who, according to videos on YouTube, are being told that Mickey Mouse,
> under another name, was killed by the Israelis...
>
--
History Channel is showing 'Ice Road Truckers' as part of their
"American Originals" brand of shows.
'Ice Road Truckers' is a show about Canadian truck drivers.
Dorothy J Heydt
Dimensional Traveler <dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:
>Quadibloc wrote:
>>
>> Well, at least some people, in some parts of the world. Like those
>> who, according to videos on YouTube, are being told that Mickey Mouse,
>> under another name, was killed by the Israelis...
>>
>I know I'm going to regret this but Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Interrogative.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6257594.stm
Quadibloc
Which reminds me; it's too bad that the residents of the island of
which Mytilene was the capital aren't Welshmen. Had that been the
case, they would have had a very simple remedy available for the
confusion engendered by the word for a resident of their island also
having another meaning.
One could even safely wager a silk pyjama that there would be no need
to further extend the principle in order to disambiguate a third
adjective.
John Savard
Dorothy J Heydt
Quadibloc
> Nice. Very subtle.
Why, thank you. I had thought that I was only being obscure (which,
although not a praiseworthy characteristic, served what I flattered
myself was the positive purpose of setting forth an amuzing little
puzzle) and had not at all reached the level of subtlety in that post.
John Savard
Derek Lyons
Actually, the first Minnie that came to my mind was a rather different
one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wOPt-2PeE
D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.
http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/
-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
Dorothy J Heydt
Derek Lyons <fair...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Actually, the first Minnie that came to my mind was a rather different
>one...
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wOPt-2PeE
To say nothing of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg&feature=related
and as an hommage, somewhat later,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyIiR3tTxDM
2bfjdsla52kztwe...@gmail.com
> In article <4863482c$0$21486$d36...@news.calweb.com>,
> Mike Van Pelt <m...@web1.calweb.com> wrote:
> >In article <sno564l8igp0c9hhd...@4ax.com>,
> >Bengt Larsson <bengt...@telia.NOSPAMcom> wrote:
> >>Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> >>>From a search back to previous GG discussions, I found out about this:
> >>>
> >>>http://project-apollo.net/mos/
> >>
> >>Oh, that one is really good. Recommended.
> >
> >And best of all (or, perhaps, worst of all) it is
> >*completed*. The whole story is there. No nail-biting
> >cliffhangers until the next update.
>
> Except for the wait that's been going on howevermany months for
> "Afterlife Blues" to get started.
The wait is over. Let the rejoicing commence!
/Bo Lindbergh
Dorothy J Heydt
<2bfjdsla52kztwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dorothy J Heydt skrev:
>> In article <4863482c$0$21486$d36...@news.calweb.com>,
>> Mike Van Pelt <m...@web1.calweb.com> wrote:
[A Miracle of Science]
>> >And best of all (or, perhaps, worst of all) it is
>> >*completed*. The whole story is there. No nail-biting
>> >cliffhangers until the next update.
>>
>> Except for the wait that's been going on howevermany months for
>> "Afterlife Blues" to get started.
>
>The wait is over. Let the rejoicing commence!
Holy adjectival noun! So it is!
/rejoices
(The "latest page" button doesn't work though ....)