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Black Friday is now a thing in Britain, even though we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. This morning I've had spam emails urging me to go out and buy, buy, buy... and been asked- in a newspaper article I didn't read beyond the headline- how we can avoid being caught up in the madness. Well, the last one's easy. You get your rowers to stop their ears with beeswax and have yourself tied to the mast.
Nov. 25th, 2016
It's going to happen- and it may not happen much like this- but when it does it's going to take a crowbar to everything we think we know.
This is cerebral SF- more Tarkovsky that Lucas. There's an explosion- but only the one. The alien ships come and plonk themselves down on humanity's lawns and humanity goes, "Erm..."
We're mostly in rural Montana. It's cold and comfortless out here. The little humans with their piddling little weapons and jeeps and tents- looking very temporary, very provisional- are dwarfed by the alien ship- like a huge nut set on end- with a hard shell of who knows what exactly- windowless- hundreds of feet from end to end.
The aliens have a language and a linguist is brought in to learn it. But language encodes consciousness and what happens to your mind when you learn a language that encodes a consciousness that is so much greater than your own?
This is cerebral SF- more Tarkovsky that Lucas. There's an explosion- but only the one. The alien ships come and plonk themselves down on humanity's lawns and humanity goes, "Erm..."
We're mostly in rural Montana. It's cold and comfortless out here. The little humans with their piddling little weapons and jeeps and tents- looking very temporary, very provisional- are dwarfed by the alien ship- like a huge nut set on end- with a hard shell of who knows what exactly- windowless- hundreds of feet from end to end.
The aliens have a language and a linguist is brought in to learn it. But language encodes consciousness and what happens to your mind when you learn a language that encodes a consciousness that is so much greater than your own?
Learning All About Horses
Nov. 25th, 2016 04:56 pmThe owner of the ponies came and fed them sliced white bread. Horses like sliced white bread, who knew?
Earlier Ailz had given them carrots. We discovered that all you have to do is call, "Come over here," and they come. I hadn't realised they were quite so tame. The owner has an even simpler method of summoning them. He shakes his bags of Wonderloaf- and they hear it from a field away.
Three of the ponies are cobs. The third is part cob, part Dartmoor and stands a little higher.
Earlier Ailz had given them carrots. We discovered that all you have to do is call, "Come over here," and they come. I hadn't realised they were quite so tame. The owner has an even simpler method of summoning them. He shakes his bags of Wonderloaf- and they hear it from a field away.
Three of the ponies are cobs. The third is part cob, part Dartmoor and stands a little higher.