“What is it?” the pilot said to the miner, in the cramped, instrument-lit confines of the harvesting vessel’s cabin. “An antique,” the miner replied, having returned from the holding bay where the newest find had been salvaged from permanent obscurity in space. “A kind of space probe … outfitted with a primitive nuclear fission engine. [...]
I’ve never claimed to be creative with titles. Titus Pullo of Legio XIII Gemina stomps everyone’s ass until Patrick Stewart comes in to fuck him up. Then Lucius Vorenus, Titus’ centurio, has a rare pang of pity and destroys Patrick Stewart with his own ugly fantasy mace. Science Officer Ash of the Nostromo, now exposed [...]
Since the other Chris is gone, the junior writer, elfasbrynja, would like to step in. I voted for Obama last year and I appreciate how he has already rolled back a lot of stupid Bush administration policies. In terms of social and scientific policy, at least, he’s doing markedly better than what I would have [...]
Since almost everyone I know can’t stand black metal, I’d like to post a (slightly) more conventional offering than Burzum’s seminal self-titled release. I first heard Walter (now Wendy) Carlos’ Switched-On Bach when I was maybe eleven or twelve in its right vinyl EP form and it was the shit. He (now she’s) the guy [...]
Strip Generator is the shit. Here’s an example I made for the Unilang website forum. Cool that they use PNG images, as they are standard and unencumbered by patents. Sorry, it’s inside humor, but you get the idea: [click to enlarge]
I toyed with the idea of learning a functional programming language before. It’s good to see that toying often eventually leads to doing, as has been the case with Swedish. Some things that eventually prompted me to pursue FP more were an excellent article on the subject and personal experience with tedious maintenance of state [...]
The troll formerly known as hanumizzle now posts as elfasbrynja (Elven coat of mail) on dumpendebat.net.
