I tried really hard to do this book but it beat me. It’s a dnf on my list this year. The radio play is pretty good too.

We watched Pontypool when we read Snow Crash. There’s a scene where Snow Crash is placed really obviously if your looking fot it and the themes mesh really nicely.

Dude had built in shades and didn’t know it.

Alien is my favorite horror movie by far. I really dig Hellraiser too. I watched Pontypool recently and was surprised how good it was. And The Shining is fab.

Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.

I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that’s been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I’d say it was adjacent.

“Caught on camera” like some soccer mom was in a mall parking lot with her camera out.

A million seconds is about 11 days. A billion seconds is about 32 years. A trillion seconds is about 31,000 years. 7 trillion seconds is about 222,000 years.

Not quite on topic but what kind of projector is this?

And for a couple of hours, they smelled nice.

I’m not sure but we have a Next Door. I quit that after a couple of weeks because it was just a bunch of people bitching about homeless people being around but not wanting to help or understanding they’re still neighbors.

“He’s one of the good ones. Well spoken and would own slaves”.

In any other timeline I’d think he would have no chance. But really, how many of is would be really and truly shocked if he won anyway? Surprised? Sure. But actually shocked?

My folks were hippies. Did the woodstock thing and all. I grew up around them smoking pot at parties and stuff. When Nancy Reagan told us all it was bad my parents told me she was full of shit, that smoking dope sometimes was as ok as drinking a few beers and that when I moved out of the house I was free to do what I wanted.

As for swx, pretty much the same thing. Wrap your willie, wait till you’re abdcadult, and don’t do it here.

I’m as honest with my kids about drugs now.

Yes he did. I’d lay a hefty bet that he rehearsed it. Immigrant and the n-word aren’t close enough to flub. Impregnate and Immigrant? Sure. And you can see him smirk. He’s wanted to say this for a long, long time.

Lace codes (and brace or strap codes I’m reminded above) are largely dead now. It started letting up when it was discovered how dope blue Docs looked with red laces.

See? The system works!

Hitting a guy with an ax handle. There’s not a lot of nuance or grace in it.

Back a few lifetimes ago in this area it was anti-gay.

Yeah, absolutely. It’s’s an old Skinhead/Bonehead thing. You’d rock different colors to say what you sort of believed. Red was neo-nazi, white was klan or white power, blue I think was pro cop, yellow was anti-gay, green was something bad but I don’t remember what, may be you robbed everyone. This was kind of nationwide but varied by area somewhat. Like blue could mean pro cop or anticop. This was way before think blue line stuff.

So growing up you’d see a bunch of bone heads strutting around with white laces and you’d know they were all racist shiteaters.

Mostly I think it was a way for skins to decide who to fight. Like I say, I was a punk, so not as much into fighting for fun like most skins were. I just ran with some because being a skater and a punk then was a little harder if you got caught alone. And having friends that liked to fight was just good sense.