There’s a very loud noise in my ear, not unlike a cat sneezing, if the cat is the size of the Great Sphinx of Giza and it’s just inhaled three tons of snuff.
Superman, Iron Man, Batman—Flyaway Hair winces visibly—you name it. Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes, his grandmother replies bleakly. Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part of a larger pattern of life.
So once again Janice proves that not only is she a nerd, she’s a useful nerd who gets to stay on the team.
She extends a fingertip. After a moment's hesitation, Manfred extends a fingertip of his own. They touch, exchanging vCards and instant-messaging handles. She stands and stalks from the breakfast room...
Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:
Just solving certain theorems makes waves in the Platonic over-space. Pump lots of power through a grid tuned carefully in accordance with the right parameters—which fall naturally out of the geometry...
First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for co...
After a few seconds to savor his self-derailment, Derek gets back on course.
What band does the necromancer dance to? Boney M.)
If he’s serious about turning, I can probably walk him through the process using the tablet as a teaching tool: damn Alex for inventing such an easy-to-understand visualization. If you could broadcast...
★ ★★What is this eigenplot you keep talking about?★★ I ask. I’m dangerously close to whining. I really hate it when everyone else around me seems to know more about what’s going on than I do. ★★The ge...
Over-endowed with WOMBATs. (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it’s...
Let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar
Friend of mine who was turned down
There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.
Then the red light comes on above the camera, and I’m live on a Monday evening special crisis edition of Newsnight.
The first law of Bureaucracy is, show no curiosity outside your cubicle. It’s like the first rule of every army that’s ever bashed a square: never volunteer.If you ask questions (or volunteer) it will...
Some invasions barely warrant the name.
She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.