shawn_w

Serial Expirementd Lain is basically the Ulysses of anime. Super dense and cryptic by design.

A gold tag badge lets you do some things like closing a question with a single vote.

The people with the gun fetish are largely on the side of the fascists.

Do you have a hankering for antique furniture?

The LEDs themselves also produce heat.

I miss phones with real keyboards so much.

My EMT cert is old enough to buy booze.

Lost a programming job in the dot com bust, couldn't land another one, eventually ended up in an EMT class and worked a series of traditional ambulance jobs and other health care positions since. Not really using it for anything but some volunteer stuff these days though.

From everything I hear about what programming jobs have become I don't really mind the career change, but man oh man do I miss the pay that comes with tech jobs.

Tigana is my favorite GGK book.

Should have screamed instead of laughing.

That's a different, older collection.

Like half the people here I'm in the middle of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Finished Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia yesterday, and also have been reading Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mysteries - currently on The Haunted Monastery.

>whatever one it is with the cloud-seeding gun in West Texas

Termination Shock

I think Zodiac would be the easiest book of his to make a movie version of.

Anathem is written in English. There's just some made up words that are generally easy to figure out the meaning of.