Yeah, but I'd have to be a character from the Walking Dead per the request, and they're not so fabulously post-apocalyptic, at least not from season one, anyway. But I don't feel like shelling out sixty bucks for a She-Ra costume that will fall apart on the first wear, and not in the good way. Hrm.

Hubcaps are great! Shield shaped, and we can still find them along a motorway/highway for free! People want to junk them, but why? Steam punk and post apocalyptic gear, free at the side of the road! :)

How do I get to be part of such a cool family? That's awesome. It makes me want to rummage and build armor and make zombie hunter Halloween costumes! Too bad the party I'm going to is popular TV characters. Sigh.

Well said and well met, Hofnarr! Write it from closer to the character's eyes and not the omniscient narrator. Or more swords and dirty peasants. come on, weekend! I am feeling inspired!

Too bad it's tricky to write books by committee! Maybe one day I'll dabble, and the fine visitors to io9 will provide me the answers to my tricky questions and fill in the gaps of spotty science knowledge. :)

I've tried to write the light stuff and I can't get my brin past the why, end up mired in the heavy and hard SF stuff and then I go back to writing about things I know, like swords and dirty peasants and concepts of belief in the supernatural in ancient cultures. Gee, I am not selling myself on SF writing when I put…

Maybe the neutrinos are alive. But then, I am in communications, I deal with words, lovely words, and avoid math and physics and formulas and the like. And maybe I'm starting to understand why I can't write science fiction.

Uncontrolled induction can harm people if the circumstances are right. If the wireless effect is not controlled, meaning, the field comes off of something and energizes a good conductor sitting on the ground, and you touch said conductor, you can ground out the charge through your body. yes, the charge might be in the…

The Planets win every single one that comes along if you ask me. From the way Mercury flutters about to Jupiter's Triumphant nobility to, ah heck it's all magic! :)

Well, The test is this: if you can listen to the arrack and create your own story to fit the music, and thus somehow replace the movie memories with your own, then there we go. But as much as I am not impressed with much of Star Wars, I do have to say that Empire is fabulous, so influences aside, Williams really gets…

If you have trouble deciding, go and give a listen to Gustav Holst's the Planets and then re-listen to some of these. You might go from "great movie score composer" to "hey that doesn't sound original anymore." yes great composers build on the work of others, but still. Holst's piece for Mars is so familiar and used…

James Corden back on Doctor Who again? Fab! And that could mean more Stormageddon! Best name ever! Okay, calming down. :)

Excellent, then I look forward to devouring it! And I suppose I can handle the tree stumps if they're not too big a part of things. But just the tight of, well, the torment! But, moving on! Thanks Annalee!

The writing in The Steel Remains is great, though of course there are things that might make a person uncomfortable. What creeped me out involved tree stumps, and I won't say anything else. Will I read the new one? Yes. Will it creep me out? Probably. But if it didn't it would not be such an interesting read! Nd…

I was using an app and saw an article saying that Neutrinos moving faster than light wouldn't violate Relativity because the theories and laws for that are about something accelerating to the speed of light. You can't quite get there because of the energy required. But light photons start at the speed of light, so no…

I can see the reasoning. Need food. Eat radioactive horse, become strong like horse. Maybe make Centaur baby, create new type of Cossak!

Simulations. Bah! I read recently that an actual experiment involving monkeys and typewriters produced nothing that was coherent, typewriters was smashed, and of coursed, used as urinals. Is that part of the simulation? Personally, as a writer, I think someone is just out to say that a monkey could do my job, so I am…

@ishbar nothing wrong, no, nothing that a sword through the heart can't fix. :)

Dead Like Me came along a few years (and a few more) before Pushing Daisies, and was a cable show as far as I remember. Ellen Munth (not that forgettable) was fine but the show was made by the supporting cast of characters and the zany issues around the reaping of the souls. Plus the waffle house diner was recycled…

An article I read did say that they, the researchers, were not sure and wanted to present the details so others could check it. But even an anomaly is something interesting. Whatever the result, it gets people talking about physics and possibilities and that's the real victory at the moment.