Space is quite inhospitable. We have developed here with minimal resistance to ionizing radiation. That means that there are very few places in the universe where our bodies would survive. Anywhere nearer the galactic core, or any semi-dense cluster of stars, or anyplace without a really powerful magnetic shield, or…

You guys are going to get your internet membership cards taken away!

Not just Carrie, which was the first thing that sold (as a movie!), but he said that way before that he had a nail on the wall that he would hang all his rejection letters on…and then he had to add another nail. The guy wrote tons of stuff before he ever sold the first thing. Funny that the first thing he sold was…

My mother (GRHS) used to call me up every other week and ask me how to cut and paste again. It became a family catch-phrase.

Did you know that gullible isn't a word in the dictionary?

"I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."

My favorite time-honored technique is to find some way to delay. The impatient ones then have to try and figure it out, and they do most of the time, surprisingly enough. Taking care of them at the drop of a hat makes them lazy and co-dependent. ::-(

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Saw this for the first time yesterday: Seinfeld answers question about writer's block, "Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work." Oops.

You need to read Stephen King's "On Writing." That's about the most inspirational writing book I ever read. Talk about rejection: Probably no writer in history has been rejected as much as Stephen King!

Sarcasm is a foreign language to you isn't it?

Godwin's, um, corollary?

Whoa, what a daytime drama THAT would be!

I've been reading a certain "holy book" of a certain non-western religion lately and it's full of little statements like that: "They know we are right but they are too stubborn to admit it," kind of stuff. It says that a lot. Methinks it doth protest too much.

Ah, like caning! Good point. I just thought of spanking when I saw the word—which set off a humorous vision—but you're right, it is more than that.

Corporal punishment?!?! They should SPANK them?

So they can sell it anywhere. You just need a cord with your local mains plug on one end and a "Mickey Mouse" plug on the other. It does come with a power supply, just not the last few feet to the electrical outlet.

NASA did get a better shot of it and it does have writing on it. It says, "To Russia, with love."

I was going to post this if no one else did.

Wow, LH is a GAWKER site?!?! But, but, it actually GOOD! Must have been a fluke.