Comment Algol (Score 1) 633
Unless you want to count various HP programmable calculator keystrokes as being a language. After Algol it was Fortran, some assemblers, snobol, lisp, bliss-10, and others.
Comment Re:Plus the obvious one (Score 1) 104
As defined here, a fixup combines multiple short stories into an interlinked longer work. One short story as inspiration for a film and a later novel definitely is not a fixup.
Comment Another three fixup novels (Score 1) 104
Joe Haldeman's excellent "The Forever War" was (is) a fixup. There was even a story left out of the novel because it was 'too depressing.' I was reading these as they came out, and remember that story. Yeah, depressing.
Similarly, Stephen King's first Dark Tower book had a number of sections first appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction.
F&SF also published "The Forvelaka" (title?) and a few other stories that became the core of Glen Cooks first Black Company novel.
Comment Re:I think I'll pass (Score 1) 141
Not an actual paywall, they only ask for your email address. Not even a password.
This strikes me as a fine way to subscribe strangers to mailing lists, sigh.
Journal Journal: Saturday Night is for Fighting 1
Or something like that... Could be for just sitting on your couch and drinking expensive beer. Maybe. It's, just that, well things are funky all over.
New job.
Was supposed to kick start my ass to do more. More adult shit. But, well that hasn't worked out at all. Though, now that my garage doesn't resemble Sanford and Sons, I think I can light up my heavy bag come morning.
Journal Journal: Please... no more conference calls 1
Just like it says. Please do not include me on your conference cal. Do not. Ever.
That is all.
Journal Journal: Friday is for directions, don't go off map
I watched Tron, again. And... it sucked again.
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Guild Rule #12 in effect.
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And... that's all.
Journal Journal: Tuesday is for cassettes and VWs
On tap is The Cure - The Head on the Door. Takes me back to my '69 Red VW Bug and the Alpine with 6x9s (straight from Pep Boys) I put in my junior year. I had three tapes: The Cure, Rush, and George Thorogood and played the hell out of all of 'em.
Journal Journal: Thursday is for Klytus 1
Do me a favor... put your makeup on in your home, not your car. Not on the 55 Freeway. Not in the fast lane. Thank you.
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Tomorrow is Friday.
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I got the cardboard and tape deck... you name the place and time. Poppin' Taco and Boogaloo Shrimp forever!
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The number of Americans claiming jobless benefits fell last week and factory employment in the U.S. Midwest hit a 27-year high in March, more signs that an improvement in the labor market is under way...
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Journal Journal: Wednesd@y is for R0ad Tr1ps 2
Poway. Really?
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Tomorrow is Opening Day 2011! While I am not as hopeful about the Angels this season as I was... say two years ago... I am excited to get back to Baseball!
Journal Journal: Tuesday: retcon 11
Oh, I wish I had a Holy Hand Grenade.
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I am hopeful (but realistic) that Sensation will come to the West Coast in 2012. When it does the kids go to Grannie's house and the wife and me are off!
The realist in me knows that Sensation won't work in the States... but I can dream!
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Baseball in 2 days...
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If I had a Holy Hand Grenade, then all of my problems could be solved - rather quickly and with a loud bang!
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This is from my "holy shit, he's a com
Journal Journal: Monday is for Truth, Justice, and the American Way 3
"Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"
We're close to adding the 51st State... Libya. Personally, I can't wait to add Tripoli to my Spring Break destination!
Comment Re:i'll bite (Score 1) 4
Was posted without want of philosophical/religious discussion. I was simply posting about a co-workers over-zealous pseudo-rant about a former evangelical minister who was fired by his flock because he agreed with a recent book - by another evangelical minister - that floats the idea of No Hell. I thought "Gandhi is in Hell" is just plain silly... that's all.
It would have read better if I posted:
I missed Thursday... but, (according to my Evangelical Co-Worker) Gandhi (yes, THAT Gandhi) is still basking in the warm glow of eternal hell-fire.
I don't take things too seriously (on
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Journal Journal: Friday is for Jumping The Shark 1
Do you think John Travolta will ever make Battlefield Earth 2?
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An update to Moonpie's nemesis, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher: his podcasts are ok. Some parts are genius, laugh out loud funny, while other parts are clumsy and sometimes uncomfortably not-funny. Since they are free and IF you have the free time, I say download them and give them a listen.
Journal Journal: Thursday and Gandhi is still in Hell. 4
I missed Thursday... but, (according to my Evangelical Co-Worker) Gandhi (yes, THAT Gandhi) is basking in the eternal hell-fire glow.
Oh, how I love Orange County.
