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Dec. 19th, 2005 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6Just noticed that LJ gave us free users an extra 3 userpics (apparently since I had 7 from when I was a paid account holder, I wasn't able to use them until I deleted one, so I didn't notice until now even though they gave them a few days ago). Yay LJ anyway.
So the other day I was hanging out on a dead MU* (one I still
frequent to chat with someone). Another person who I occasionally
see online there (presumably for the same reason) but have never
really talked to paged me out of the blue, apparently bored. We
talked briefly but I was just heading to bed, so that was that.
Then, a couple days later, they paged me again and it was all
pouncy and nuzzling and I'm a little WTF? I don't mean to be
rude but we've said like less than 20 words to each other and
suddenly you're nuzzling me? I have trouble knowing how to react to online 'nuzzles' and such even from good friends, much less from someone who's all but a stranger.
XET looks like it's temporarily down again.
Book Foo: Recently finished: Brothers-In-Arms and Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Started: The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel Delany
Minor spoilers beyond the cut.
I wasn't sold on it initially, but with these books I've decided that I rather like that universe Bujold sets up for her Vorkosigan books. The cultures are interesting and she manages to make both the regular Miles and his clone distinctive characters, similar but different. Before I only planned on reading a few of the books because they'd won Hugo or Nebula awards, but they interest me enough that I'll pick up all of them, eventually. They're rather fun.
TEI is sort of about humans living after some kind of nuclear holocaust, where being born normal is a mark of distinction when many people are born so mutated they're not even functional, and the main character is functional but 'different' like a number of people. Except it's not quite about that at all, there's other stuff going on that I won't spoil in case you're interested in reading it. The main character goes on a quest to among other things bring back his dead love. It's okay, but it's really not for me. Just reading it because it won a Nebula, so after I'm done I'll have read every novel winning a Nebula in the 60s... and have already read every Hugo in the 60s, 70s, and 90s, and a good proportion of the rest)
Am I the only one that thinks 'trust us, we're the government' is better as a punchline to a joke rather than official government policy?
Philosophical Question of the Moment: You've just died, but just before that happened, the entire contents of your brain were downloaded into a new supercomputer. The computer has all the memories you did, and behaves in a way consistent with your personality. Is the computer 'you'? Or is it a copy/imitation?
So the other day I was hanging out on a dead MU* (one I still
frequent to chat with someone). Another person who I occasionally
see online there (presumably for the same reason) but have never
really talked to paged me out of the blue, apparently bored. We
talked briefly but I was just heading to bed, so that was that.
Then, a couple days later, they paged me again and it was all
pouncy and nuzzling and I'm a little WTF? I don't mean to be
rude but we've said like less than 20 words to each other and
suddenly you're nuzzling me? I have trouble knowing how to react to online 'nuzzles' and such even from good friends, much less from someone who's all but a stranger.
XET looks like it's temporarily down again.
Book Foo: Recently finished: Brothers-In-Arms and Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold
Started: The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel Delany
Minor spoilers beyond the cut.
I wasn't sold on it initially, but with these books I've decided that I rather like that universe Bujold sets up for her Vorkosigan books. The cultures are interesting and she manages to make both the regular Miles and his clone distinctive characters, similar but different. Before I only planned on reading a few of the books because they'd won Hugo or Nebula awards, but they interest me enough that I'll pick up all of them, eventually. They're rather fun.
TEI is sort of about humans living after some kind of nuclear holocaust, where being born normal is a mark of distinction when many people are born so mutated they're not even functional, and the main character is functional but 'different' like a number of people. Except it's not quite about that at all, there's other stuff going on that I won't spoil in case you're interested in reading it. The main character goes on a quest to among other things bring back his dead love. It's okay, but it's really not for me. Just reading it because it won a Nebula, so after I'm done I'll have read every novel winning a Nebula in the 60s... and have already read every Hugo in the 60s, 70s, and 90s, and a good proportion of the rest)
Am I the only one that thinks 'trust us, we're the government' is better as a punchline to a joke rather than official government policy?
Philosophical Question of the Moment: You've just died, but just before that happened, the entire contents of your brain were downloaded into a new supercomputer. The computer has all the memories you did, and behaves in a way consistent with your personality. Is the computer 'you'? Or is it a copy/imitation?
