I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me

[sovay]

Clearly our species does not deserve spaceflight.

At least the triumph of our cephalopod overlords is not far off.

I survived the lawn. Tonight, I am going to see Up (2009). And then I am tired of not writing a particular story; I think it is time to start researching again. No con report yet, but have a photograph: courtesy of ellen_datlow, me and greygirlbeast, amazingly still conscious (though a bit overexposed) on Sunday afternoon.



I have no clever caption. I'm just impressed I could still make eye contact. greygirlbeast looks good.

Comments

[timesygn.livejournal.com]

I like the photograph. I could imagine your faces and postures transposed into costumes and settings of almost any period, from Classical Greece to the Antebellum South. (Although the part of Scarlett O'Hara would definitely not be played by greygirlbeast, you'd make a dashing Ashley Wilkes).

As for those who erased the moon-tapes: squid bait.

[humglum.livejournal.com]

The squid, they know it's all our fault.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

The animals taste with their tentacles, he said, and seemed to be touching him and his wet suit to determine if he was edible.

I'm amused by the idea of someone trying to scuba dive (scuba-walk?) while wearing chainmail. But it might be a good idea.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

That's a good picture of both of you.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I want to see A Midsummer Night's Dream with greygirlbeast as Oberon; and maybe Nalo Hopkinson as Titania?

Nine

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"We all wish that somebody had said 'those tapes are special, let's pull them aside'," he said.

As if that weren't amazingly, searingly obvious!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The animals taste with their tentacles, he said, and seemed to be touching him and his wet suit to determine if he was edible.

I wonder what the squid decided?

...seriously, that story is amazing. Did you click on the video link "Trouble in Paradise"? You can see them actually swimming at the diver. (And when they're swimming in the distance, they look like strange space birds flying among the stars.)

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars ..."

[ri-whittlesey.livejournal.com]

Nasa probably taped over its only high-resolution images of the first moon walk

It's heart-sickeningly sloppy. I was brought up by an archival librarian; imagine how I wince.

I don't know whether we deserve space flight. But it sure looks like we don't deserve our own cultural heritage, if we don't bother spending, say .0001% of the cost an effort on keeping it intact.

And, archiving electronic media! Don't get me started. Or do get one of the archivists started, who are really anguished about it. How long can a book last? We don't know; the first book ever printed hasn't worn out yet. For electronic media, ten years seems half of eternity. If the bit-rot don't get you, the obsolescence will.

Then, of course, we throw away the only helium we'll ever have into natural-gas pipelines ...

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

You both look good. Can't wait to see you next year!