Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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And Robin, read Neal Stephenson, the story might be made up, but the facts are true. You'll learn at least as much about nanotech from Diamond Age as you would from any non-fiction available on the topic.
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I got 30 pages into American Gods and bought another book. Neverwhere was ok though
See, I'd put that the other way around, I found Neverwhere an inferior ripoff of Roofworld and at least one other novel I can't quite recall right now, but quite enjoyed American Gods (and Anansi Boys). Coraline and The Wolves In The Walls are cool as well, especially if you have kids to share them with.
Buy Snow Crash, go to a decent second-hand bookshop (Browsers if you're up this way) and just buy it. You'll be reading it more than once anyway. Ditto Diamond Age and Crytonomicon. Just for any lurking download nazis - I read Snow Crash as a scanned e-book, then promptly went out and bought it.
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We're all persons here ;-)
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I shall avoid any mustard-like food groups until Bob is out of nappies.
You can relax, you don't need to wait til he's out of nappies - just til he starts on (semi-)solids. After that the colour & texture will no longer resemble mustard, and will take any number of other hues. Especially if, for his second birthday, you get him a Thomas The Tank Engine cake with lots of very, very blue icing. That one I can speak from experience on.
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Good point, Emma, I should have mentioned - YMMV, plus I am unqualified to speak from experience.
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Sure speed might have mattered little at the time, but at least it was only a little time - I sat next to my wife during the 16 hours of the first labour and the 8 hours and caesarian of the second. I'm very sure she would have appreciated a bit more speed.
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I've found the larger the company/organisation, the larger the bureaucracy, the more people who aren't directly connected to the customer/money source, the more it all starts to resemble a Dilbert cartoon.
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in palmerston north.
nobody envy me...
I'm sure John Cleese is turning green as we speak.
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I would not be surprised if washing your hands, arms & even faces in a mix of turpentine, nail polish remover & sundry other solvents each day for years, was harmful to your health.
Speaking as someone who used to work handling hazardous waste for the local council, in my no-longer-professional opinion:
Yes, that's not a recommended practise these days.
You are definitely gonna die.
Sometime in the next 80 years or so.
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Plus Shia Lebouf - they were lucky to get him now while he's cheap - his price is bound to go up fast.
Oh, and Megan Fox is well named.