So I said basically this in response to malcontent on twitter, who asked what I thought of The Last Jedi discarding both the Jedi and the Sith and the fake nerd boys blathering on about it, but I thought I’d collect this nerd rant a bit here.

I recall an essay (or maybe a blog post) written by someone (possibly Charles Stross?) about how difficult it would be to keep control of space based colonies, particularly from the bottom of a gravity well?

Here's something both horrible and wonderful. Cedar Fort Publishing reneged on it's agreement because the bio for one co-author had this line in his bio: "He lives in Salt Lake City with his partner and their four dogs."

It's assets have been bought, and there's going to be a web publication, Omni Reboot, funded to continue it's legacy.

Would someone smack this with the invisible banhammer?

As some of you might know, my Dad isn't doing so well. His liver isn't going to last very long, and while we can get him any care he might need up here in Soviet Canuckistan, a new liver itself is kind of hard to source. They only get about one a year in his blood type up here, and he doesn't have a great chance of…

I don't know whether to dismiss this or leave it as a warning to others.

But thank you for all the adventures, Mr. Banks:

I've started documenting my various foodcraft projects in character as Professor Snuggles T. Heartcraft, Gentleman Scientician, and I've just made my first post on the Doom Press and the manufactory of cheese.

RC cars with guns. Someone will hook this up to Watson and then we'll have to phrase everything as a question or our machine overlords will get us.

In case anyone doesn't know, there's a thriving community of niners on G+, including lots of folks who wandered off after the first upgrade.

Ugh, bigot alert.

Mods, can this not be a thing, plskthx?