{"id":246,"date":"2009-04-11T19:54:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/04\/11\/on_and_on\/"},"modified":"2009-04-11T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:54:03","slug":"on_and_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/04\/11\/on_and_on\/","title":{"rendered":"On and on"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thinking earlier this week, mostly thanks to various happening things<\/a> (and the answer to the question posed therein, by the way, is only in physics but not often in biology\u2014evolution for example is often deeply misunderstood by SF writers) how much of what we have in our hands was science fiction only ten, maybe 15 years ago and yet we still haven’t got a moonbase, and how my MacBook Pro was still sitting at Jenny’s place<\/a> unloved, which is a real shame because it is a very lovely thing (and I’ve called her ‘Guinevere’, by the way, for reasons that don’t concern us) and how utterly cool it is that I am able to edit and produce a podcast using the software<\/a> that comes with it for LabLit<\/a> and who I could get to voice the intro (I have a candidate<\/a> but need to ask her at my birthday party on Tuesday) and then I started, this afternoon that is, not last week because in the meantime I’ve gone up to Lincoln to say hello to my girls<\/a> and then while I was thinking about the podcast Eva<\/a> gChatted me and we talked about how she guessed I’d be be going to SciFoo ’09 (which I am, if I can save enough geld<\/em> for the airfare); and then I was charging the first cool gadget<\/a> I got on returning to the UK (within 24 hours of landing, in fact), and suddenly was moved to ask the entire world<\/p>\n

\nWhy is bluetooth on the iPhone so shit?<\/code><\/p>\n


\nHappy Easter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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