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  • The Sands Of Time

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    Update on the Civilization 3: Culture Game – we now have seven confirmed players, and will be starting as soon as our last player receives his copy of Civ3 and PTW, eighth player or no eighth player. Here is a revised version of a recruiting email I sent out yesterday: To those who are wavering:…

  • Pride and Extreme Prejudice

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    Pride and Extreme Prejudice – possibly the funniest thing I have read this year. A couple of SF authors have come up with the idea of a Terminator/Pride and Prejudice crossover on rec.arts.sf.written and are current writing it piecemeal, to the delight of the newsgroup regulars. It should, nay, must be published as a full…

  • Think Difference

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    Men and Women think differently – another gem from the Best of Craigslist.

  • Life in the Lab

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    Scene: A moderately untidy lab in a university with stacks of papers on tables and computers humming away to themselves. One person, G, is building a couple of computers and taking apart two others. S watches by. Another, R, is working on a paper. G holds up a dusty-looking computer card. G: R, what should…

  • Worth trying

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    I spent part of yesterday afternoon engaged in playing games on a friend’s computer; very productive. When I fired up Age of Mythology, the volume on the speakers was off since I’d been having a chat. Just as it was getting into the nice intro sequence, I thought, maybe this would make more sense if…

  • Ingenious

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    While reading Roger Ebert’s review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, I came across this wonderful paragraph that I had to share: “It’s at about this point that the script conferences must have really taken off. See if you can follow this: The Enterprise crew determines that the probe is zeroing in on Earth,…

  • Wishlist for Mars

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    The Speaker Wishlist for the Mars Society 2003 Convention – Chris Isaak? ‘Any of the cast of Survivor’? Arnold Schwarzennager? (sic) Any female astronauts? I hate to think of who made this list, and how they did it. And in any case, isn’t it a bit late to be signing up speakers for a date…

  • Marmite

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    There’s no doubt that there are many who love Marmite, but personally speaking, I can’t stand the thing. Clearly MetaFilterites don’t agree with me though: “The marmite is not too strong for us. It is we who are too weak for the marmite,” and “Bow before the Gods of Yeast Extract! Bow damn you!”

  • Fun New Words

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    New words and terms I’ve heard at my lab: Fiascotorial, adj.: combinations or permutations of fiasco-like situations. e.g., “And then the squirrel fell into the bowl! Just imagine the fiascotorial possibilites!” Gene-jockey, n.: derogatory term for a geneticist or molecular biology. e.g., “Those gene-jockeys working on the squirrel genome project, they don’t understand that the…

  • Cereal

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    Turning books into cereals – who knew it could be so fun? Witness ‘Consider Breakfast’ by Iain Banks, ‘Chomsky’s Universal Grahams’ and Stephen Hawking’s ‘Universes in Nutshells’.