Shim consists mostly of hair, and has a secondary stomach to help digest dense texts. Despite allegations, he does not speak 'every language' and is not a hardened criminal. His tastes are eclectic, which is an excellent word.
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2013-12-09 23:30 - Anxiety, Anger, and Porn -
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This does sound ... pretty remarkable actually. Uncomfortable as hell, but pretty remarkable.
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2013-12-08 22:08 - Ferretbrain Presents: Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 1 -
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I thought you already used preferential voting, actually. I had never looked it up and for some reason I had the impression that no one seriously uses first-past-the-post.
You'd think, wouldn't you? But no, we've be... - 2013-11-06 19:33 - Gilded Curlicues - link So I bought this a couple of years ago after reading this review, and just got round to reading it. Or rather, reading the first 80 pages of it and giving up :( For some reason I just could not get into this. I didn't have any obvious problem wi...
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2013-10-30 22:21 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five -
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Shimmin: I don't think I could give the beginning of either Fallen or Morganville a fair shake, knowing that massive bait-and-switches will rapidly render the first tedious to me and the second revolting
Robinson: I...
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2013-10-29 07:45 - For the Love of God, Tim Powers, I Thought I Could Expect Better of You -
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I can't actually think of a single memorable female character in any of his books.
The Anubis Gates, which I just finished, does feature one female character who isn't just in passing. She spends most of the novel ... - 2013-10-01 22:32 - Ferretbrain Presents Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 2 - link Just been relistening to these, prompted by enormously fun expedition into Firetop Mountain with my folks which they're extremely keen to carry on next visit, and it's as much fun as I remembered it being. We should do more!
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2013-09-12 23:10 - City of Celluloid -
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Three Swedes walk into a schwa?
...and say "əw!"? - 2013-09-03 07:58 - Fists of Beauty - link A recording from Eastercon (available here, this isn't the recording I heard but should of course be identical) sheds some interesting and fairly definitive ...
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2013-08-25 19:04 - 9^3.96 words about Nine Worlds -
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I thought it was something out of some fantasy novel.
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2013-08-24 23:05 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Halloween Special Girl Books for Girls: Episode/Phase/Part Five -
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Of course, when that happens, you know there'll only be one thing to do: get the original TeXt Factor Halloween crew together for a weekend with all the adaptations on DVD, watch the first ~10 minutes of each, check which ones are better than/w...
- 2013-08-13 15:35 - Rethinking Prometheus - link So this was a really interesting counterpoint to those other folks on Prometheus. Probably even more so if only I'd actually seen any of the Alien films! But there we are. I have se...
- 2013-07-31 21:54 - Always There Are Two: A Retrospective on the Ninth Season of the Apprentice - link I feel highly vindicated in not watching this. I am 99% sure you're right that, while the show presents it as candidates making daft choices, they are actually highly constrained in their choices and approaches to problems. TV really hates things...
- 2013-07-31 20:16 - "Furthermore, I consider that London must be destroyed." - link Also: sorry Alasdair, none of that has anything to do with your article, which I thought was really good - you have thoroughly convinced me not to touch these things with the proverbial.
- 2013-07-29 12:30 - "Furthermore, I consider that London must be destroyed." - link Yeah, it's just... ack. I was expecting either Lovecraft pastiche or some kind of misguided romp, not... that.
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2013-07-29 07:55 - "Furthermore, I consider that London must be destroyed." -
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I was vaguely fascinated by the first link, and then:
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2013-07-02 22:44 - It’s Guys Like You Mickey -
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Dan: Similarly, it is wholly impossible for a person with no teaching experience to decide whether a lesson causes students to learn effectively merely by focusing on superficial details of the way the lesson is structured. mir-x01: On...
