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Kapea · 20 May 2019 09:10PM

I'm a big fan of short story science fiction and "alternative" history, e.g. Inglorious Basterds. Love, Death and Robots is a wide open short story format. I've been reading science fiction since I started with the Tom Swift jr. series in third grade in 1963.

Kinda reminds me of the original Aeon Flux series on MTV, and the Story of O-ren Ishi'i in Kill Bill.

zymurgybob · 20 May 2019 11:30PM

You got good taste. For a lot of decades I was rilly rilly big on good science fiction, but I haven't read much for years. In some sort of old-guy regression, when I yearn for SF, I often go back to Sturgeon, Clarke, or Bradbury. I had the wonderful luck to live on the same island as Robert Forward, but the awful luck not to know it until after he died.

I'm always just a bit late.

I've still got a copy of Tom Swift and his Giant Magnet. "I'll never pet an alligator again", Tom said off-handedly.

Kapea · 21 May 2019 01:15AM

I started reading The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (aka F&SF) when 2001 A Space Odyssey came out in 1968. My junior HS teacher told me if I liked the movie I should read the short story it came from. I read it while following Apollo 8's journey that December. It was published in F&SF. In 1971 I got a subscription to F&SF as a Christmas present. I have been a subscriber ever since. Some of the best fiction (and science fact too) ever written has been published in that magazine.

Kapea · 21 May 2019 08:02AM

Arthur C. Clarke - The Sentinel (PDF)

grim · 21 May 2019 10:56AM

Big William Gibson fan.

Smaug · 21 May 2019 11:37AM

@grim said: Big William Gibson fan.

Kill the sugar and get to the gym at least 3 days a week and you should be back in shape in no time.

Kapea · 21 May 2019 06:07PM

@Smaug said: Kill the sugar and get to the gym...

Sugar and carbs (sugar polymers)

Smaug · 21 May 2019 09:27PM

@Kapea said: Sugar and carbs (sugar polymers)

Meat and vegetables make your dreams come true.

zymurgybob · 22 May 2019 10:57PM

@Kapea said: Arthur C. Clarke - The Sentinel (PDF)

The title rang like an old bell but my lame-ass memory couldn't put the story behind it. I had to look it up. You're right, of course, but The Star gets me so deep that I can't re-tell the story without clouding up.

And then there's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." To me that speaks way more to the viewer than the technology. Oh yeah, and Forward wrote a book with that title.

@grim -Damn straight on Gibson.

Kapea · 23 May 2019 08:34AM

Clarke's Childhood's End is my all time favorite.
The movie Independence Day ripped off the spaceships arriving scene from that book.

punkin · 24 May 2019 08:56AM

And then there's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Transformers, The Dark Night. 1h.14m.20s

Kapea · 24 May 2019 05:15PM

Yes, blatant, shameless, plagiarism is rampant in the current pap being sold as science fiction in the cinema.

punkin · 24 May 2019 06:19PM

@Kapea said: Yes, blatant, shameless, plagiarism is rampant in the current pap being sold as science fiction in the cinema.

God you are opinionated. It was an accredited quote.

Kapea · 25 May 2019 05:42AM

Accredited?
By the Australian Board of Plagerized Quotes? :))

Clarke's Three Laws

punkin · 6 June 2019 08:42PM

Furry convention @ Wikipedia

Abandon all positive belief in the world.

crozdog · 7 June 2019 12:25AM

furry's are weird

punkin · 7 June 2019 12:45AM

I had no idea that was even something in the world.

Was bad enough when i found out about jugaloos.

No, hang on.....jugaloos are worse.

dad · 7 June 2019 01:37AM

1986, I was traveling to Virginia Beach on business and stayed at a hotel hosting a FURY convention.

Everyone not there as a Fury was stunned. It was one giant freak orgy. Odd critters fondling and humping everything/everywhere.

Kind of like the anonymity of wearing a mask for Mardis Gra or Fashing.

punkin · 7 June 2019 01:49AM

It's been a thing since then? Wow.

Moonshine · 7 June 2019 06:54AM

@punkin said: It's been a thing since then? Wow.

1986, the year of the Chernobyl disaster, could explain some things... b-(

punkin · 21 June 2019 06:39PM

Kapea · 22 June 2019 07:09PM

Says the snake, "Electronic mousetrap? Hah! I got your mobile app right here pal!"

@Moonshine said:

punkin · 24 June 2019 09:37PM

Second mouse didn't slow him down. Greedy guts he is.

Saw this on a drive yesterday, wish it was at my place.

Kapea · 5 July 2019 07:11PM

It's always something out here...

crozdog · 14 July 2019 01:40AM

why is it when you really really need to find the lid to your GB4 you can't find it?

punkin · 14 July 2019 02:21AM

4" end cap will fit, or a 4x2 reducer and a 2" end cap, 2" valve....or any other of a hundred combo's. You just won't have the handle.

Kapea · 14 July 2019 04:31AM

MacGyver says, "A little aluminum foil and a 4" hose clamp, and Bob's your uncle."

crozdog · 14 July 2019 11:15AM

@punkin's on the money, I used a 4-2 reducer & a 2" endcap before seeing his reply. top idea re the valve - get a handle that way :)

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CothermanDistilling · 14 July 2019 10:27PM

make sure yer not sitting on it =))

crozdog · 15 July 2019 11:35AM

haha i reckon I'd notice that... lol

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