commentary on my life?
Dec. 20th, 2006 07:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanAlmost everyone has a change jar, right? I have two. One has a bunch of quarters, dimes, and pennies in it (no nickels, interestingly enough). The other?
Two 1000 lire coins. A .20 franc coin. A Loonie. Two Cayman island nickels. Six Russian cents, whatever they're actually called. Two pounds 47 pence in various denominations. Four euros in coins, and a five euro bill. I used to have a couple of Israeli coins, too, but they seem to have gone walkabout.
I need some pocket change from South America next, I think...
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I ran across this quote while backtracking on something, and love it so much I just want to post it for folk to admire. And remember.
"Writing a science fiction story is fun, not work. ... the fun... lies in treating the whole thing as a game. ... the rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict with the facts as science currently understands them. For the author, the rule is to make as few such slips as he possibly can ... Certain exceptions are made [e.g., to allow travel faster than the speed of light], but fair play demands that all such matters be mentioned as early as possible in the story..."
(anyone able to identify the author?)
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No writing of note accomplished last night. I was pinned on the sofa by two felines, and forced to nap. And watch a Travel Network special on aquamarines. Oh, the trauma. Okay, I'm not a hug fan of aquamarines, per se. But they're still pretty rocks.
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Um. Today is Wednesday, right? The 20th? Of December? Just checking.
Two 1000 lire coins. A .20 franc coin. A Loonie. Two Cayman island nickels. Six Russian cents, whatever they're actually called. Two pounds 47 pence in various denominations. Four euros in coins, and a five euro bill. I used to have a couple of Israeli coins, too, but they seem to have gone walkabout.
I need some pocket change from South America next, I think...
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I ran across this quote while backtracking on something, and love it so much I just want to post it for folk to admire. And remember.
"Writing a science fiction story is fun, not work. ... the fun... lies in treating the whole thing as a game. ... the rules must be quite simple. They are; for the reader of a science-fiction story, they consist of finding as many as possible of the author's statements or implications which conflict with the facts as science currently understands them. For the author, the rule is to make as few such slips as he possibly can ... Certain exceptions are made [e.g., to allow travel faster than the speed of light], but fair play demands that all such matters be mentioned as early as possible in the story..."
(anyone able to identify the author?)
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No writing of note accomplished last night. I was pinned on the sofa by two felines, and forced to nap. And watch a Travel Network special on aquamarines. Oh, the trauma. Okay, I'm not a hug fan of aquamarines, per se. But they're still pretty rocks.
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Um. Today is Wednesday, right? The 20th? Of December? Just checking.
