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Thigmotaxic: A pair of punks -- cyber, that is

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Thigmotaxic: Moves in response to touch. Doesn't mean much huh? I'll write whatever moves me when I'm touched by the muse. Pop culture, not-so-pop culture, opinions, gripes. Wednesday, January 06, 2010. A pair of punks - cyber, that is. Over a recent business trip, I read two books that fit the post-cyberpunk model well, and perhaps even good ol' cyberpunk:. Following the band "Snake Vendor," the book features excerpts of lyrics from that band, plus "Sex Lethal" and a couple others. Jarpe. Is a bit less ...

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The Stars my Destination: October 2014

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The Stars my Destination. Friday, October 10, 2014. What do "liberal" Islam-haters actually want from us? Imagine a moment that, as a liberal, I'm trying to say something that will make Sam Harris and Bill Maher really happy (assuming they cared what I thought about anything). So let me make the following argument, all of which I believe:. I believe that all the gods that people worship, including Allah, are fictional beings that don't exist. ( 1. Would Harris and Maher be happy? No, of course not. I...

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The Stars my Destination: May 2014

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The Stars my Destination. Monday, May 19, 2014. The Master: Most Pathetic Big Bad Ever? While I'm on the subject, it is also more ridiculous than ever at my age that a 240-year-old Angel would fall madly in love with a 16 year old Buffy. Although this led to a pretty funny conversation with Jeff, in which he said that Angel looked like a teenager. I said that he looked almost thirty, at which he pointed out that so did all the other "teenagers" in the show. Links to this post. Friday, May 9, 2014. Oh, I ...

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The Stars my Destination: January 2014

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The Stars my Destination. Saturday, January 25, 2014. A song in the style of 90s-era Tom Waits. A conversation with Traci Paris reminded me I wrote this and totally forgotten about it. Since otherwise it will just collect digital dust on my hard drive, I'll present it here. No title yet. Hetta Rose doesn’t like this water in her hair. And we’ve been in Sausalito half a week. We need to find the kerchief with the green and yellow squares. To tie the two by seven hose that has a leak. You couldn’t ge...

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The Stars my Destination: September 2013

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The Stars my Destination. Sunday, September 1, 2013. Why we should prosecute Al-Assad instead of bombing Syria: a follow up. Well, I started this. So I'll follow through. Whenever I come up with an idea that sounds really smart to me, I tend to come up with potential arguments against it. So here's a few I've considered:. Q) Why even bother? ICC prosecutions take forever. Launching a few random cruise missiles or drone strikes? What alternative will have an impact on what's happening right now? A) No And...

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The Stars my Destination: April 2014

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The Stars my Destination. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Westeritis: A dangerous new epidemic in fantasy fiction? Anyone who's either read the Game of Thrones books or watched the TV series knows that you practically need a spreadsheet to keep track of all the characters. If you've read the books and you watch the show with someone who hasn't, you'll find they keep asking you, "wait, who is that again? Is it fair to say that Bear is imitating Martin in trying to balance all these storylines? His most recent o...

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The Stars my Destination: Time to say goodbye to "Hello World"

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The Stars my Destination. Monday, August 25, 2014. Time to say goodbye to "Hello World". If you have taken any programming class in your life, you've probably written a "Hello World" program. When I first learned BASIC, it looked like:. 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD! In a modern programming language like Python things often start out pretty much the same. At the code.org "Eliza" lesson, the first program is a "Hello World" program. Most intro programming books still start out with a HW program. Though we couldn'...

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The Stars my Destination: April 2015

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The Stars my Destination. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Conservatives Say Always Protest Peacefully, Unless You're White. Fox News is filled with people deploring the violence that's happened in Baltimore. More than a few. Were eager to remind Baltimore protestors about Martin Luther King's nonviolent methods. The way that conservatives praise MLK today would have shocked conservatives of his time, such as William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. What does that mean? It means that if the gover...