Federal incentives will now vanish very quickly. If you don’t do it in the next six months or so, you won’t get anything from the feds.

The Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

And who shall I say is calling?

I’ve watched the recent movie twice. It is its own thing, capturing nothing of the spirit of the original. Which, if it were called “The Men from K.A.T.M.A.N.D.U.” and the characters were named differently, I could have accepted far more easily.

That’s what you think—now.

We used to be able to use Coke bottles to chip, but they’re far too deep in the landfill for that now.

Sounds great. Now if you want to see how that future will play out, read Gibson’s “The Peripheral.” As of Tuesday, that’s our future.

Have you read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? Have you ever played the question game?

So I’m thinking: a fictional country with a #1 military and a third-world living situation? Nothing real about that, in a couple of years.

You want moral ambiguity, we got a ton of American wars for you. Every g.d. war *except* for WWII, in fact. Have her show up in the Mexican-American War. Or maybe the latest round of ME conflicts; what would the Justice League do with Syria?

In discussing obstacles, a thought for today:

Why World War One?

Anything by Charles Stross or Ken MacLeod. They each have series that will challenge, illuminate, and thrill you.

Can’t I just have a Diet Coke?

First, rich fat boy looks none too nimble.

Still not sure what the SW universe is all about....is the New Order ideological? Is this about good versus evil, old versus young....every dad in the SW universe is just awful....is that it?

How is the game restarted?

One of my favorite books as a kid was “Tunnel in the Sky,” in which a bunch of teenagers get stuck on a distant habitable planet with only the tech they carried on them, expecting a two-week stay.

Loved Bobbi, had no feelings for Hunter, couldn’t figure out why she had either, no chemistry between the leads, no interesting stories, no wonder it tanked.

What’s really exciting about this, for me, aside from the obvious, is that we get to see Science at work. The back-and-forth, the continuous peer review, the spinning and testing of different hypotheses, the never-ending skepticism about a claim—in this day and age when we threaten to re-embrace medievalism and…