I appreciate the lack of gravitas in your username! Also I agree phlebas is probably the weakest book.

I must rewatch this, its been a long time.

Don't worry, they rebuilt the tether! KSR's Mars series is great I heartily recommend it.

Now I'm imagining what it would look like wrapping itself around the planet after the Counterweight is removed.

Lovely soundtrack for a weirdly lovely film.

When I was a kid one of my dad's old national geographic magazines had a feature on this guy and his experiments. I re read that one so many times , was one of my favorites! Come to think of it, all those hundreds of national geographics are probably the basis for most of my pre internet autodidacticism

My head, what...stupid monkey brain.

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson matched with Marconi Union's album Different Colors , thats a particularly strong connection. I often listen to a single album on repeat when reading a new book that I think will match the tone or the setting. I like mixing the memories together, getting flashbacks of music from…

I want space jodhpurs like the ones he's got.

Dear god, looks about 3 feet. I don't want to think about how much that cost. But I want it anyway, so jealous.

I quite like public speaking, im actually pretty good at it( the talking bit anyway) .the problem is my body doesn't seem to know it. Very annoying, sometimes its bad and sometimes its nonexistent. Never been able to work out a pattern though. I'll try this next time!

Never gets old.

Making me thirsty Dr

Wish I had the cash for a better scope right now! I've been looking at Jupiter a lot through my little refractor the last month or so, wishing for a slightly better view.

Screw that , I'm escaping to another universe thats less depressing

Much better!

First thing I think of whenever I hear the word sprinkler.thankyou!

I don't understand it. But I want to!

I'd do it, just that I'd only do it as an alternative to dying. I'm quite attached to my physical self, im quite sentimental about it.

Good follow up.