IF ONE WISHES to live to a ripe old age, there are certain activities one should avoid. Chief among these is eating anything larger than one’s own head—but not so very far down the list is any activit...
History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliabi...
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
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...
If you want to work on data covering more than about one month you’re supposed to phone Mr. Jobsworth at BT and whine for help.
They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.
The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can’t say no.
Stuff that really will improve my survival prospects when the tentacles hit the pentacle.
Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).
So Ah’m no evil, Ah’m just plain bad.
Rich, powerful, white alpha males who dress up in gimp suits and beat up ethnically diverse lower-class criminals.
La culpa es mía por ser el informático del departamento: cuando las máquinas se estropean, agito mi pollo muerto y escribo encantamientos vudú en los teclados hasta que vuelven a funcionar.
Just as individuals age and die, so do lineages: Only debt is forever.
I’ve met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I’ve even survived the...
It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut the fuck up—the moment of silence when they have no comeback...
I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess.
You young ones . . . ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you?
When you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error.
Yes, Derek, I tell him, we hauled you four thousand miles out of your comfort zone just so you could make a saving throw vs. Cthulhu. Happy now?
We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activit...