Slow Saturday?
Peter D. Tillman
St. Paddy hangovers?
Cheers -- Pete Tillman
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James Nicoll
Peter D. Tillman <Til...@toast.net_DIESPAMMERSDIE> wrote:
>All of 21 posts since c. 7:30AM. Not a typical rasfw SAT!
>
>St. Paddy hangovers?
Saturday is when I buy groceries and today is when I get a sudden
flurry of phone calls/email from relatives, since it's One More Year Gone
Day for me (although not as important as Lived Longer than My Father Did
Day, which was back in February). Also, the lingering cough has got to the
point where I coughed a tooth* out, which I would have sworn was impossible.
For some reason, not being able to inhale or talk is really
eating into my ability to do anything. I've worked out a compressed
version of English that lets me get the basic points across, though.
ObSF: The last book I read wasn't SF but a short history of ice cream. The
one before _that_ was Dzur by Brust.
My reading list for the next week is:
ESCAPE FROM EARTH (Various): An SFBC original, whose central thesis is
that YA SF should be fun.
KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON (Carrie Vaughan): the next book in the Kitty series.
IN THE COMPANY OF OGRES (Lee Martinez): Comic horror?
THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Ellen Kushner): sequel to SWORDSPOINT.
THE VIRTU (Sarah Monette): No idea what this one is about.
STAR WARS: DARTH BANE: PATH OF DESTRUCTION (Drew Karpyshyn): I think
Karpyshyn's CV is mostly from the gaming side of things.
* Well, part of a tooth. It's pretty startling to see a piece of your
head fly off into the distance in mid-cough but I am happy it broke on
the exhale and not the inhale.
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Ilya the Recusant
Tillman" <Til...@toast.net_DIESPAMMERSDIE> wrote:
>All of 21 posts since c. 7:30AM. Not a typical rasfw SAT!
>
>St. Paddy hangovers?
Not even.
Though this does raise an interesting technical question:
I went to have a beer with a friend around 1 am. Did I drink on St.
Patrick's Day or the day after? (I only had 1 beer)
>Cheers -- Pete Tillman
Ilya the Recusant
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Gene Ward Smith
James Nicoll wrote:
> THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Ellen Kushner): sequel to SWORDSPOINT.
What's the conventional wisdom on what genre Swordspoint is? I bought
it at the Other Change of Hobbit when it first came out, and while it
seems to have been marketed as fantasy, and tickles the fantasy
palatte, I don't see it really *is* fantasy. But if not that, then
what?
Dorothy J Heydt
James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Saturday is when I buy groceries and today is when I get a sudden
>flurry of phone calls/email from relatives, since it's One More Year Gone
>Day for me (although not as important as Lived Longer than My Father Did
>Day, which was back in February). Also, the lingering cough has got to the
>point where I coughed a tooth* out, which I would have sworn was impossible.
>
> For some reason, not being able to inhale or talk is really
>eating into my ability to do anything. I've worked out a compressed
>version of English that lets me get the basic points across, though.
For Pete's sake. Have you seen a doctor?
>
>ObSF: The last book I read wasn't SF but a short history of ice cream. The
>one before _that_ was Dzur by Brust.
Oooh. I don't suppose you can review it for us at this point,
but can you give a publication date?
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djh...@kithrup.com
James Nicoll
Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>In article <dvhhu7$a4$1...@reader2.panix.com>,
>James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Saturday is when I buy groceries and today is when I get a sudden
>>flurry of phone calls/email from relatives, since it's One More Year Gone
>>Day for me (although not as important as Lived Longer than My Father Did
>>Day, which was back in February). Also, the lingering cough has got to the
>>point where I coughed a tooth* out, which I would have sworn was impossible.
>>
>> For some reason, not being able to inhale or talk is really
>>eating into my ability to do anything. I've worked out a compressed
>>version of English that lets me get the basic points across, though.
>
>For Pete's sake. Have you seen a doctor?
My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
After musing on the Lesson of the Foot, I have decided that I
would prefer this not be the one thing, so I will go waste my doctor's
time on Monday.
>>ObSF: The last book I read wasn't SF but a short history of ice cream. The
>>one before _that_ was Dzur by Brust.
>
>Oooh. I don't suppose you can review it for us at this point,
>but can you give a publication date?
August 2006.
David Cowie
> St. Paddy hangovers?
"Saint Patrick: patron saint of English drunks."
DJ Chris Moyles, on BBC Radio 1.
--
David Cowie
Containment Failure + 20523:46
Mike Schilling
"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
news:dvhlvh$ocj$1...@reader2.panix.com...
> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
> illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
>
> After musing on the Lesson of the Foot,
Out with it
James Nicoll
Mike Schilling <mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
>news:dvhlvh$ocj$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
>> illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
>>
>> After musing on the Lesson of the Foot,
>
>Out with it
>
Or, for that matter, a burst appendix.
trike
>illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
If the "Nicoll Accident Effect" is that thing, then how do you know
what form it will take? Could be a cough.
I once broke a molar on a piece of pizza. Kind of unexpected.
Doug
Mike Schilling
> In article <qm_Sf.1948$4L1....@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
> Mike Schilling <mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
>>news:dvhlvh$ocj$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>>> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
>>> illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
>>>
>>> After musing on the Lesson of the Foot,
>>
>>Out with it
>>
> My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.
You tempt me severely.
Tim McDaniel
AAIIIEEEEEE! *pant pant pant*
>My reading list for the next week is:
Are all of them for review? That is, not coming out for months and
months and MONTHS DAMMIT?
>KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON (Carrie Vaughan): the next book in the Kitty
>series.
Amazon.com says July 1.
>THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Ellen Kushner): sequel to SWORDSPOINT.
Amazon.com says July 25. -- Do you know how this book will fit in with
_The Fall of the Kings_, also a sequel to _Swordspoint_?
--
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tm...@panix.com
Howard Brazee
Nicoll) wrote:
>>For Pete's sake. Have you seen a doctor?
>
> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
>illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
My brother was in between jobs when he came down with a cough. By the
time he was employed and back under socialized medicine again, it was
too late - he died within the year of lung cancer.
Howard Brazee
imported from Ireland, but was made right here in Colorado. Still,
it's more Irish than a green colored lager!
Bill Snyder
<mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
>news:dvhsne$d0k$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>> In article <qm_Sf.1948$4L1....@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
>> Mike Schilling <mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
>>>news:dvhlvh$ocj$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>>>> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
>>>> illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
>>>>
>>>> After musing on the Lesson of the Foot,
>>>
>>>Out with it
>>>
>> My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.
>
>You tempt me severely.
Like the gangrenous appendage, if you can successfully ignore it long
enough, it will go away.
--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank.]
Ahasuerus
> James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote: [snip]
> > For some reason, not being able to inhale or talk is really
>
> For Pete's sake. Have you seen a doctor?
It's unlikely that mere inability to inhale could do much damage to
James, considering his track record.
--
Ahasuerus
Craig Richardson
Nicoll) wrote:
>In article <qm_Sf.1948$4L1....@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com>,
>Mike Schilling <mscotts...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>"James Nicoll" <jdni...@panix.com> wrote in message
>>news:dvhlvh$ocj$1...@reader2.panix.com...
>>> My philosophy is that only one thing can kill you, so all other
>>> illnesses and injuries can be ignored.
>>>
>>> After musing on the Lesson of the Foot,
>>
>>Out with it
>>
> My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.
>Or, for that matter, a burst appendix.
Over the holidays, my soccer league shut down, so I was doing my "off
day" light-barbell-and-core workout rather more than usual, including
back-to-back days, which I usually avoid by both necessity and choice.
One day, I felt some residual soreness right below my ribcage - albeit
fairly harsh - and thought "minor overuse problem, stretch out good
and it's always worked itself out before". So I went on and did a
full routine.
Torn abdominal muscles take a long time to heal. You can't really
rest or immobilize them.
--Craig
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"Then I heard the whirring of the motorized snowmen, sound[ing] like the
death rattle of very small robot lizards, and I left the seasonal aisle"
-- James Lileks, "The Bleat", 2005/10/10
David Goldfarb
Amazon says August 8. Same date as Jo Walton's _Farthing_, by the by.
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Robert A. Woodward
<Tillman-D132A4...@sn-radius.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
"Peter D. Tillman" <Til...@toast.net_DIESPAMMERSDIE> wrote:
> All of 21 posts since c. 7:30AM. Not a typical rasfw SAT!
>
> St. Paddy hangovers?
>
> Cheers -- Pete Tillman
I see 168 messages since last evening, which is a bit light. What I
find more disturbing is the fact that almost half of those messages
were cross-posted to 5 newsgroups.
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James Nicoll
David Goldfarb <gold...@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <IwC74...@kithrup.com>,
>Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>In article <dvhhu7$a4$1...@reader2.panix.com>,
>>James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>ObSF: The last book I read wasn't SF but a short history of ice cream. The
>>>one before _that_ was Dzur by Brust.
>>
>>Oooh. I don't suppose you can review it for us at this point,
>>but can you give a publication date?
>
>Amazon says August 8. Same date as Jo Walton's _Farthing_, by the by.
Also recommended.
James Nicoll
Tim McDaniel <tm...@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <dvhhu7$a4$1...@reader2.panix.com>,
>James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>Dzur by Brust.
>
>AAIIIEEEEEE! *pant pant pant*
>
>>My reading list for the next week is:
>
>Are all of them for review? That is, not coming out for months and
>months and MONTHS DAMMIT?
Pretty much. I live about six months in the future as far
as books are concerned.
>>KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON (Carrie Vaughan): the next book in the Kitty
>>series.
>
>Amazon.com says July 1.
>
>>THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Ellen Kushner): sequel to SWORDSPOINT.
>
>Amazon.com says July 25. -- Do you know how this book will fit in with
>_The Fall of the Kings_, also a sequel to _Swordspoint_?
No idea. I should probably admit at this point that SWORDSPOINT
is one of many, many books of which I have heard nothing but good things
while still not getting around to reading them.
David Goldfarb
James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <dviqgh$15vk$1...@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>David Goldfarb <gold...@OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>>In article <IwC74...@kithrup.com>,
>>Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>In article <dvhhu7$a4$1...@reader2.panix.com>,
>>>James Nicoll <jdni...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>ObSF: The last book I read wasn't SF but a short history of ice cream. The
>>>>one before _that_ was Dzur by Brust.
>>>
>>>Oooh. I don't suppose you can review it for us at this point,
>>>but can you give a publication date?
>>
>>Amazon says August 8. Same date as Jo Walton's _Farthing_, by the by.
>
> Also recommended.
For once I am able to concur. <grin>
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Joe Bernstein
Gene Ward Smith <genewa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> James Nicoll wrote:
> > THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD (Ellen Kushner): sequel to SWORDSPOINT.
Ooh. Fear and hope.
> What's the conventional wisdom on what genre Swordspoint is? I bought
> it at the Other Change of Hobbit when it first came out, and while it
> seems to have been marketed as fantasy, and tickles the fantasy
> palatte, I don't see it really *is* fantasy. But if not that, then
> what?
Um, doesn't it fit solidly in under the <Gormenghast> Exception?
(Books about nonexistent places not provably in our world are fantasy
even if they lack magic. Come to think, though, book 3 of Gormenghast
*is* in our world, or so I hear, so hmm.)
While I mean that seriously, it may not be enough for all. So let me
count the ways:
1) Author. Kushner had previously written fantasy and has since
written fantasy. If she's written in any genre other than
fantasy and [the genre of <Swordspoint>], it's news to me.
2) Series. There is a clearly-fantasy prequel.
3) Comment. I first heard about <Swordspoint> from Michael Swanwick's
"In the Tradition ..." list of non-derivative fantasies.
And I think there were more, but I've forgot 'em.
Joe Bernstein
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