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The problem with a time machine is your future self keeps coming back and warning you not to do something you want to do 'cause it was a disaster.
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Ah the existential beauty of XKCD. I built a time machine at first though I could only get it to go forward in time, then I called it a recliner and made a bunch of money. Then I had enough to build a real time machine. I toured the whole of human history, who was the first female president of the USA? Abraham Lincoln and I'm very sorry.
Wow random musings for a year? this recliner thing really works.
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I haven't been to the dentist in almost thirty years. Most of those teeth I've still got also hurt.
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man, I can't wait until they find a way grow teeth in a lab (using a mold cast of the bad tooth, of course) - i want teeth implants when i'm 60! Hah! no dentures for me...I hope.
Sigh. you know you're getting old when you start daydreaming of cool dental advances.
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I've been piggibacking a temporary filling for the past month or so. It only hurts every couple of days, I really need to get into a dentist, I just freeze up when I try to call for an appointment. I have a resistance to pain medications, so no matter how much they pump in it wears off way too fast and the pain is nearly unbearable.
On a lighter note the other day I saw a engineer's walk of shame. I was cleaning the halls and this guy came past with a cart jam packed with cables of some sort, it was so heavy he was struggling to push it, and he was a bigger guy than me, and I'm a big guy. Then about an hour later I saw him walking the same direction with two or three cables, his head hanging down.
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Well, these musings aren't random, or mine, but...
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” – Groucho Marx
"Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world." --Tom Clancy
“From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.” --Isaac Asimov
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." --Franklin Jones
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." --Elbert Hubbard
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Heinlein's The Door Into Summer had a way of "reworking" teeth---in the years 2000 / 2001. Another thing SF prediction of 2001 has let me down on. Look what well-known work had happening in 2001...look what didn't happen...look what did...
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No, my cloth-related arts & crafts were limited to hook rugs and batik. And since then the attraction of wasting time on the internet makes it hard enough to sit still and write, let alone do all the other arts that I used to so enjoy. (I wonder, were I a teenager today, whether I would have still do those oil paintings, or paint those model planes, or do all those drawings or write all those stories...)
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I remember working on a hook rug when I was in grade school...seemed relaxing enough, but it seemed too much of a collaborative effort for my tastes. I never pursued the matter further after that. But I liked the way it looked and felt afterwards. (Didn't take much in those days to satisfy me, just a rug and the occasional SF magazine or book.)
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Only crafts I remember doing was when I had to make a paper mouchee of an animal in the 9th grade. And...I remember someone had glued my textbook to the table. The entire front cover was lost. And *I* had to pay for the damages at the end of the year.
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Loved that show. It was one of the best - that was a show you actually sat back and admired how good it was. I think it inspired storytellers to what was still possible with writing as well as with TV.
Hope they make a movie to finish off the story. They should have been given that chance, at least.
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You know Chi Mcbride is on Human Target now? That too is a really well developed well-written show. It has Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach in Watchmen) in an awesome role!
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I haven't caught much in primetime in years...working the night shift kills "just catching something"...I spend a lot of time looking at cartoons, the newer variety that pop up on the Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Discovery Kids, and their associated networks. (There's been a lack of anything really good---or anything appealing to me, which isn't necessarily the same thing.)
Of course there's video releases. You've heard me mention "my latest timewaster"---"Star Trek: The Original Series," Seasons One and Two, on Blu-Ray. (They were on sale at Best Buy two weeks ago.) I've been kind of off "Star Trek" for some time---haven't seen the new movie yet, and the rest of it kind of wore out its welcome---but going through these reminded me just how much fun the Original Series was.
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I remember working with clay a lot at our school. Must've done somebody some good---one of my classmates heads up the Congressional Budget Office right now. (Yeah, I've mentioned it before...I'm torn between letting myself be eaten up with jealousy and envy, and being grateful it's him and not me.)
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I do seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about my former classmate, come to think of it...
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Never cared much for it. I suppose it's a good entry into showbiz (like WoTF is for SF writing)...but I thought it put a lot of talented people through the wringer by making them work with material and musical genres when their talents lay elsewhere. Play to your strengths, plaster over your weaknesses.
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Well, "due" may be too strong a word...but you gotta know who's living where on April First, 2010, and you can't know that for sure until today. You can mail it in any time before the end of April...
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But if they know where I was on the first of April 2010 then they will know where to find me when they build that time machine.
Of course the time machine will turn (has turned) out to be like the flying saucer or Bigfoot. It seemed like a good idea in the planning stages but upon execution it turns out to be an embarrassingly silly waste of materials and time. Our only hope afterward is for most people to not believe it so the few who do are seen as the embarrassingly silly ones. I win!
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Remember back in September when I spent a week lamenting that I didn't get paid when I was supposed to...damned if they didn't do it again today!
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Didn't get paid again today. Even if I got the check (or a money order cut to order), I couldn't do anything with it until Monday morning. I was told someone would be in to cut fresh money orders, but also that that person wouldn't be in until nine---I leave work at six-thirty and there's no way I'd either (a) hang around that long, or (b) make a special trip out there. It's their screw-up---they can accomodate me.
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No check today either, and a two-day layoff, my weekend on Tuesday and Wednesday, before I go in again. Also no explanation---but last time they told us what amounted to a big heaping pile of lies.
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I should be vacuuming right now. There is still Easter basket grass on the floor and Thursday is my vacumming day.
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quote:Thanx, snapper! I've got two stories that fit that word count range
Go for it! Hope you do better than I. My 14000 word masterpiece got a rejection 3 hours after I sent it. I thanked her for her promptness and promised more from me in the future.
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Thought I'd scared off people with my financial woes...didn't last time, but you never know...
By the way, another Friday has rolled around---no check, no word, no money have I none. A promise of a money order fell through, though I'm promised it for tomorrow.