Posted on 12/28/2009 9:44:19 AM PST by asimshah
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No. Not even the most hardcore of seaman are out on the fantail smoking in high seas at midnight, usually. Unless they just got off/are about to go on watch.
The previously linked ship heavily damaged and slowly rotating in space to the following tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbTviFhHI4
Unless ...
heh
I have to change Frank again. I’ll tell Bill you’re on; he’s probably playing Neverwinter Nights again.
over here.
Not for that much longer. I plan to start back toward the ship in a half hour or so.
Well, maybe he’ll turn up. If not, we’ll see you eventually ... have a good evening!
Whew! Letters for the bills coming up Tuesday written, printed and signed. LoM will deliver to the state senators tomorrow. Feels odd to be solidly 100% behind one bill and 90% the other, when I’m usually trying to get entire bills killed.
For the sake of those who are into visual art, I'll try to provide an opportunity with my Dragon story.
Let's see:
Dragons (Fire-breathing, of course)
Swordsmen
Castles
Magnificent vistas and mountain scenery
Cataracts and waterfalls
Dragon Battles
Spaceships
Pirates
Space Battles
Princesses
Bad Guys
Black Holes
Galactic Vistas
Humor
...
Anything I left out?
Oh, yeah! Robots
There you go!
They breathe fire? I always thought they exhaled fire!!
Maybe your legislature is getting better!
I wish we lived nearer the Capital to have more involvement at the state level. I’m friends with my state rep and state senator, and generally back them 100%, though.
Not even that.
They spit or use reverse peristalsis to eject a gelled alcohol, which can be ignited by an electric-eel-like spark.
This thickened fluid is somewhat different from what they use in the fire-lung to combust with air. That is more pure, and therefor explosive.
The leathery fire-lung expands with the combustion to pull energetically on sinews attached to their leathery wings, providing a powerful downstroke to lift their tremendous bodies.
Having gained altitude, they take advantage of thermals for long-duration flight, marshalling their on-board fuel for emergencies.
That'll be the day!!! Don't really want to sound cynical, but the measures we like are being driven by the fact that the state is running a $2+ billion deficit and they can't afford to keep doing some of the the bad things they've been doing.
OTOH, one of the bills we like is being driven by "It isn't working."
Unfortunately the one that REALLY needs to die looks good because it appears to raise money for the state. But on anything beyond the 3-second analysis it will be costly. My letter shows three ways in which it will hurt. We'll see if they listen -- sometimes they do.
I(t really helps to be near enough to be directly involved. LoM sometimes advises me on what motivates whom, based on her attendance at meetings and hearings there.
Anoreth should be tuned into 91.3 KBCS right now (or online at http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=listenlive). Old Norwegian music on “Mostly Medieval.”
I have an acquaintance here - I worked on his unsuccessful campaign for County Commissioner - who attends all the meetings and knows all the dirt in the area. He’s announced that he’s running for the State Rep seat this fall, but I think the current one is a better choice, so I’ll have to turn the second man down.
It’s probably suppertime on the boat, and she cares about meals!
I’m headed back to “Literary Biography of Ronald Knox.” He was an Anglican priest, son of a bishop, who became a Catholic ;-) around the time of World War I.
I am perusing my paperback collection for a book to take on the upcoming trip. A visit to the bookstore was very disappointing; the only book I would consider purchasing
1) is trade paper out for a LONG time now without going to paperback (trade paper is much more expensive), and
2) has a wretched (to me) cover that looks sort of like Gandalf (it's sort of fantasy).
Somewhat wish I still had my old 3000+ volume SF collection, but oh well.
I sold most of my sf collection over the years, too. Are you going to be gone too long to take a library book? There’s always the Bible!
Um. Does it refer to semi-modern capabilities executed with older technologies based in the Age of Steam? Babbage's Difference Engine carried forward, some SF works by William Gibson (I know, "cyberpunk", moved back into Sherlock Holmes-era)?
I mean, we don't use steam so very much more as a means of mechanical energy transference, mostly just heat transfer -- and not even that as much as before, even in my lifetime.
(I still have my primary college slide-rule, Napier's Bones having recently been superseded.)
Just went through my library and found a couple of candidate scrolls paperbacks for the trip. The newer one is dated 1985.
Can’t beat the Dictionary!
The pictures Anoreth, Bob, and Darksheare have put up seem to have a lot of gears. I’m not sure what the steam is doing except providing driving obscurity.
As far as I’m concerned, Steampunk is neat for all the wrong reasons.
How could I not like it?
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