Anybody intelligent and without some ghastly painful disease should be able to figure out how to be happy.
I've seen lots of dumb and spastic people who were very unhappy.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Slowman.
Krw projecting his own problems. The facts that I'm not dumb, not subject to muscular spasms and not unhappy means that he's scored a trifecta, not that he'll notice - he'll just claim that I'm lying, which is krw-speak for "krw got it wrong again".
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Jane Austen was pretty good.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
And Virginia Woolf. Mary Anne Evans, who wrote under the name of George Elliot, is also highly thought of, and while Mary Shelley was something of a one-book wonder, "Frankenstein" isn't the only thing she wrote.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Utterly *ghastly* dear boy. Frightful bloody woman.
I'm a visual person, and I like authors who paint pictures. Jane Austen, PG Wodehouse, and now Laurie King. I can't read stuff like Henry James, where the author drones on about peoples' internal states.
Jane was cool.
My favorite movie might be the 2007 version of Persuasion:
or maybe 12th night
I think that Shakespeare was male.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Shakespeare done by Hollywood?? Urgh! I mean feel free to defile Austin all you please; just leave the Bard alone!
Shakespeare's plays don't read well: they have to be acted and spoken. Which means there is enormous latitude for interpretation and variations. That makes Shakespeare fun, because different casts make different versions on different stages.
If you're ever around here, go to a Tahoe Shakespeare show.
These are presented by traveling troops, not the most seasoned actors but young, enthusiastic, and athletic. The setting is spectacular, a Nevada state park that juts out into the lake. If you get the good seats, you get an adirondac chair and your own waiter, so you can have food and wine before the play starts. Bring a blanket.
I was exploring America for a new start. I was in San Francisco and decided to tale a look at UC Berkeley. Walking across campus, I stumbled into a bunch of people in line, so I got in line with them. It was the Oxford Shakespeare company doing a pretty kinky version of Midsummer's Night.
So I moved to San Francisco.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
I couldn't do Frisco. Too many weirdos. So it looks like I'll never get to collect that burger and fries you still owe me from about 17 years ago. :(
You mention weirdos as if they are a bad thing.
Pity. There are some amazing burgers and fries around here lately.
I could send you a McDonalds gift certificate.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Huh, Well in the sci fi genre Bujold is perhaps my current favorite author. (though I understand her health is not all that good.) Also Atwood, Butler, LeGuin...
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There are good weirdos and bad weirdos. Good weirdos are awesome people. Bad weirdos are well worth avoiding. SF seems to have far too many of the latter variety for my liking. Don't send the gift certificate. I'll get that burger (and fries) off you one day. AISTR there was a beer included in the deal, too. But I'm guessing you've forgotten about that.
Beer too? Oh, all right.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
That was the deal. But not in Frisco. Oakland's classier, I hear. That'll do. The Hells Angels have a bar there so the atmosphere should be great. ;-)
Consider Zeitgeist, also a biker bar. Joerg likes it. Free matches.
Or for serious meat, Absinthe or Trick Dog.
Oakland is not classy; it's dangerous.
And don't call it Frisco.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
Bujold is excellent, and has a sense of humour. LeGuin is more serious, and probably even better. I've got reservations about Atwood, and can't be bothered with Butler.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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othe modern era, quite a lot of it is funded by abject trash with an agenda . And don't tell me you're buying printed matter, an even greater waste! Pr int books, magazines and newspapers should be outlawed immediately.
We know your enthusiasm for denialist web sites. Few exercises in fantasy a re less constrained by the real world, so they are about as fictional as fi ction comes, even if they aren't "good" in any moral sense.
It clearly sends you off to sleep before any of the factual content can be absorbed. Perhaps your brain gets over-worked trying to reconcile the infor mation you don't process with the misinformation already in place.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
But SF is dangerous to your butt. I call it "Fagville." ;->
Julian Barnes would. He likes Trump too.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
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