Posts by Sam F
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On the topic of LeGuin, does anyone know where I might beg or borrow a copy of The Word for World is Forest, referenced in this superb blog post? It isn't in Auckland City Libraries (probably long since pruned and sold off) and I would quite like to have a look at a copy.
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What is a step-change when it's at home?
It used to answer to "quantum leap", in the days of an earlier strain of copier-salesmanese.
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Hope nobody minds if I relieve a bleak news week with some escapist thread necromancy.
The recent sci-fi genre bunfight here has finally led me to Joe Haldeman's classic The Forever War - got it today and can't wait to get started. Apparently Ridley Scott is filming an adaptation in 3D right now as well.
And, this just in, for Auckland-based Pratchett devotees who like a bargain, the secondhand bookshop in St Kevin's Arcade presently has a fair whack of the Discworld series available in almost-mint paperbacks for $10 each (I think Truckers and Diggers are there as well). These don't even look secondhand - they're very recent reprint editions, with the original Josh Kirby artwork for bonus points.
Might be a nice way to complete a collection, or if you prefer to buy new or already have the whole series in first-edition hardbacks, you could pick up one or two as gifts and pass the Pratchett addiction onto new fans-to-be...
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You know the main effect of this thread has been to give me an overwhelming urge to go out and get a cheap netbook with a solid state drive and a mobile broadband adapter...
Me too... The iPad is pretty, but I am pretty much Not The Target Market - case in point, our old laptop finally died, we have had a new computer running for a month now, and I still haven't had the heart to reconnect my iPod nano and have to rebuild my iTunes playlists from scratch...
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In closing, I wanted to ever-so-casually point out that earlier today I was quoted by squids-in-space writer William Gibson, so I might just take the rest of the year off. Somebody feed me grapes.
Nicely done! Linkage?
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Can I just second Stephen Judd's excellent post above? Especially the strategies for being seen, and for preempting the unexpected - eye contact, assuming everyone will pull out, and so on.
Along with judicious use of hi-viz clothing these and other strategies have made my daily ride into town (to Albert Street via New North Road/K Road/Vincent Street) a lot less scary.
Also, this.
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probably something cool like marketing or something with computers
Actually I'm going with "high-flying senior copy editor", since apart from meetings and lunch, Steinlager Man's workday consists of circling part of a document and then knocking off for evening golf and a beer.
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The simpler explanation (everywhere online, of course, but I found it here): Chow Yun-Fat's state-backed film about the life of Confucius launches on Friday, and the government is keen for it to be seen, given its timeless moral lessons about the importance of respect and the maintenance of a harmonious society.
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This has been a bit of a bumper month for high-temperature PAS threads, no?
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It's like "Public Address has gone completely fucking mad" bingo.
PAS Masterpiece Theatre? (Advice on correct timing of "theatre" call appreciated...)