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Re: Hackers and Hacking in Science Fiction

skottk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:36:19 -0000

I'm not in print yet, but you can get on panels by volunteering. I offered
to do a preso on real hacking for SF writers, and they gave me the panel in
lieu.
SK

Re: Hackers and Hacking in Science Fiction

skottk — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:37:30 -0000

Johnny! It's been so long!
There was no shortage of Star Trek talk at WorldCon, believe me. I don't
think that anyone brought Kirk up in my panel on malware, though.

SK

Re: Double negatives in Shakespeare

skottk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:02:10 -0000

Try the link - there are twenty examples of that one double-negative
construction.

Re: OK, can we stop blaming vaccines yet?

skottk — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:20:20 -0000

Thanks for stopping by!
On one level, I am completely prepared to believe what you say. I wrote
this more out of my long-time frustration with anti-vaccine idiocy than out
of any specific concern with mercury in HFCS.
However, I have to say - finding out that HFCS has measurable mercury is
kind of like finding out that some Ford Excursions are upholstered with baby
seal skins. We're talking about a high-calorie artificial sweetener made
with industrial chemical processes that's only economical because of
pointless and expensive agricultural subsidies, incidentally impoverishing
tropical island economies that would otherwise be able to sell us the cane
sugar that we'd really prefer.
As a sensible skeptic, you're probably aware of the corrosive and distorting
effects of agricultural subsidies that create artificially low prices for
commodities like corn.
Your particular skepticism of hippies probably inclines you against using
taxpayer dollars as welfare for specific industries and in favor of the
power of the market to determine what crops are grown and how they're
prepared, cooked, consumed, cracked with caustic chemicals, and contaminated
with heavy metals.
Your disdain for fluff and ideology probably leaves you nervous, however at
the prospect of the Schumpetrian creative distruction that would inevitably
accompany the elimination of agricultural subsidies. Many ideologues will
hasten to reassure you, though, that it's the kind of pain you forget.

SK

Re: So, you CAN cancel your Facebook account?

skottk — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:52:17 -0000

Cool!

Re: Meme

skottk — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:35:11 -0000

An Italian WWII vet. I spoke French, Latin, music, and food, he spoke
Italian. He was in the Navy, served on a small ship with 20 other
men. The youth hostel we were looking for was not far, he would be
happy to walk us there.
All that took about an hour.
That was 1988-just occurred to me he's probably not around any more.

Re: Party of five: Death, Killers, and King

skottk — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:21:37 -0000

No probs, man.

Hey, I think I hear a Kindle calling your name. Tobias! To-BI-as!

SK

Re: http://textiplication.com/2008/08/24/now-posting-from-my-iphone/

skottk — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:38:08 -0000

It was - believe it or not - Honey I Shrunk the Kids. There's a giant
scorpion scene that terrified the little guy.

One boy or another has been terrified of movies that you'd never
expect. Finding Nemo? Never saw anything after the sharks.
Enchanted? Last hour the little guy was on my lap facing backwards.

SK

Re: If there’s a new Raiders of the Lost Ark movie…

skottk — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:42:25 -0000

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