February 23, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Lynn Pettis (2/23/2009)
Battlestar Gallactica is definately on my want list for DVD's. It may take a while, but then it took 3 years for my wife to finally buy my the 10 season edition of Stargate SG-1. Now if I could just get her to by Babylon 5.
I just saw the B5 dvd collections at Best Buy for $20/season. Unfortunately I'd already picked them up (and the Lost Tales, Tales of the Rangers, the Movies, Crusade... I can quit any time I want to... I just don't want to).
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February 23, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Hey Bruce, my son in Dunedin runs a WoW clan.
(He is also insanely good at Starcraft. I've watched him beat two opponents at once so badly they thought he was using a hack. I keep urging him to move to South Korea where he can make a living by turning pro.)
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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February 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Very prescient about the modern age, if a bit depressing.
How can they be prescient and NOT be depressing?
Fast Forward: Who else reads William Gibson and Neal Stephenson?
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February 23, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
Kit G (2/23/2009)
But then, most of the time, movies made from book suck. Unless we are talking about Phillip K Dick stories, then it is the other way around, the books suck, but the movies are great.BLASPHEMER!
Talking down PKD is just not allowed.
[font="Verdana"]Do you read Michael Moorcock by any chance? Another "whacked out of his brain" author.
I've read everything Philip K Dick published (including the short stories), but some of it is a brains-leaking-out-ears struggle, particularly VALIS. I mean, when the protagonist of the novel is a pseudonym for the author? Sheesh.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
Kit G (2/23/2009)
But then, most of the time, movies made from book suck. Unless we are talking about Phillip K Dick stories, then it is the other way around, the books suck, but the movies are great.BLASPHEMER!
Talking down PKD is just not allowed.
[font="Verdana"]Do you read Michael Moorcock by any chance? Another "whacked out of his brain" author.
I've read everything Philip K Dick published (including the short stories), but some of it is a brains-leaking-out-ears struggle, particularly VALIS. I mean, when the protagonist of the novel is a pseudonym for the author? Sheesh.
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Horse lover Fat was an interesting character, wasn't he?
February 23, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
How can they be prescient and NOT be depressing?
[font="Verdana"]Read some Heinlein. Generally prescient and not depressing. Friday's a good example.
Yeah... WoW is a phenomenon. More people play that game than the entire population of my country!
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February 23, 2009 at 12:45 pm
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
GSquared (2/23/2009)
I'd go with renting, if that's an option for you.I haven't seen it in any of the local video stores. I'll check around when I have a day free.
Not sure if Netflix or its equivalent is available for you.
Nope, and even if it was I don't have the bandwidth to handle downloading videos (1 GB takes around 22 hours to download, on a good day), plus I've got a 5GB monthly download limit
Netflix does most of its business through mailing DVDs back and forth, not through download. But that's irrelevant if you don't have something comparable available there.
E-mail me an address and I can ship you copies of the first season. I have that and don't want it. It'll be slow shipping, but you could get them that way if it's convenient for you.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
[font="Verdana"]Firefly/Serenity. sigh
Definitely awesome.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
[font="Verdana"]Do you read Michael Moorcock by any chance? Another "whacked out of his brain" author.I've read everything Philip K Dick published (including the short stories), but some of it is a brains-leaking-out-ears struggle, particularly VALIS. I mean, when the protagonist of the novel is a pseudonym for the author? Sheesh.
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Actually, yeah, I read some Michael Moorcock. Some of was extremely fun. Some wasn't.
If you really want go on a really bad trip, read the PKD's Exegesis. It was published a while back. I read it while I was working in London for a few weeks. I basically went to work and then to a pub where I sat reading the exegesis for hours. Messed up my head but good for a bit. No illegal drugs involved.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Bob Hovious (2/23/2009)
Fast Forward: Who else reads William Gibson and Neal Stephenson?
[font="Verdana"]Not Gibson: see your comment about depressing. But Stephenson, oh yeah. His latest (Anathema) is a fun read. 🙂 I still don't have a copy of his first book (Zodiac) which is a conspicuous lack on my bookshelf.[/font]
February 23, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Steve Jones - Editor (2/23/2009)
Gail, I smell a business opportunity in SA...
Not with the bandwidth the way it is. What I have is towards the top end of what's available for individuals. Anything over a 1Mb/s ADSL (shaped) with a 5GB cap is prohibitively expensive. Would you believe I pay $60 a month for 256kb/s with a 5GB cap?
Problem is, as a result of a historical telco monopoly, all of the internet backbone in the country is owned by one partially state-owned company.
Someone calculated a couple years back that is was cheaper and faster to fly to Hong Kong, download 20GB at an internet cafe, burn that to DVDs and fly back than it was to download 20 GB here.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:51 pm
GilaMonster (2/23/2009)
Steve Jones - Editor (2/23/2009)
Gail, I smell a business opportunity in SA...Not with the bandwidth the way it is. What I have is towards the top end of what's available for individuals. Anything over a 1Mb/s ADSL (shaped) with a 5GB cap is prohibitively expensive. Would you believe I pay $60 a month for 256kb/s with a 5GB cap?
Problem is, as a result of a historical telco monopoly, all of the internet backbone in the country is owned by one partially state-owned company.
Someone calculated a couple years back that is was cheaper and faster to fly to Hong Kong, download 20GB at an internet cafe, burn that to DVDs and fly back than it was to download 20 GB here.
Ouch!
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February 23, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Grant Fritchey (2/23/2009)
If you really want go on a really bad trip, read the PKD's Exegesis. It was published a while back. I read it while I was working in London for a few weeks. I basically went to work and then to a pub where I sat reading the exegesis for hours. Messed up my head but good for a bit. No illegal drugs involved.
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You don't need the illegal drugs: Philip K Dick did them for you! 😀
Read Exegesis years ago. I don't think I would go back to re-read it.
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February 23, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Bruce: I finally got my wife to read "Zodiac", she's enjoying it. It's not sci-fi, but it doesn't have to be. Anathema was a bit disappointing to me. Probably my least favorite of his works.
I don't find Gibson depressing, although the background world to his novels is. (One of the more recent ones, "Pattern Recognition" was set in the present and not sci-fi at all.) His novels are about people and being human, in a society where life is cheap. I admire the thought.
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich Schiller
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February 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Bruce W Cassidy (2/23/2009)
[font="Verdana"]You don't need the illegal drugs: Philip K Dick did them for you! 😀
Read Exegesis years ago. I don't think I would go back to re-read it.
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Yeah, but you'd think a contact hight would require, you know, contact, not simply reading.
I won't be rereading it either.
Another head trip book, Dhalgren by Samuel Delany. Read that while hanging out in bars on the lower east side of Manhattan, where he wrote it. Walking home at night got decidedly creepy (er).
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