Agreed. I do intend to do a reread focused on harvesting all the relative geography clues in the cycle of The Great God's War based on the methods I learned from Atlas of the Land , and to share my (likely very rudimentary) model of world where this series takes place. That's an aspiration, not a co...

Good to see you back on the Watch, SB.

Perhaps the suggested rule needs more specificity? Or does that just open another rabbit hole of hairsplitting? As has been mentioned, a potential case for a New Tank is the commonality of Watchers as SRD fans (or at least SRD-aware enough to pass the new member signup ...back when that worked.) I l...

[expletive] Page Breaks... So… is the Bing Chatbot… an actual strong AI or just a machine mimicing human speach patterns? The buzz makes one wonder. There are multiple stories in the media of extended conversations that veer into territory beyond chatbot expectations...and of corporate responses...

HLT, that strikes me as Idle speculation.

It is indeed good to see you back on the Watch, SerScot! You vanished right after the 2016 election; your views on what has transpired since would have been of interest. Hope all is well with you. Jay, and Jay alone is responsible for excising the Tank. I can't speak to his reasoning, but while I mi...

[pedant] Was it not Jake who wanted four whole fried chickens and a Coke, with Elwood ordering dry white toast? [/pedant]

Nevertheless, yay to repartee.

For a take on where genetic recreation of dodoes might lead, consider the dodoes in Bill Holbrook's Safe Havens.

"If I'd wanted chicken, I would have ordered chicken!"
~ Bobcat Goldthwait

Dam-et was implanted in 1994 at about 15 months. He was one of the first three children implanted in the US, with a specialist from the UK doing all three children on the same day.

It has worked very well for him.

This software will either be a great lawyer or need a great lawyer.

Yes, CH.

Your turn.

Yes, Al Stewart...specifically Al Stewart – Almost Lucy Well played, using my clue as a seed for Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al I went to school in hand-washed shirts with neatly ordered hair And the school was big and newly built and filled with light and air And the teachers taught us values ...

Again, no.

A clue: In the mid-'60s our artist shared a flat in London with Paul Simon...and, yes, Paul called him Al.

IrrationalSanity wrote:Yeah, the whole bit about thinking up a question Let me get back to you on that.

Understood.

In early December, Savor Dam wrote:I've put myself on the hook for another question. Shazbot...

...and it was another month before I was nudged into posting a follow-up question.

Thank you for the answer.

Nope.

IrrationalSanity is correct. The fulcrum of Davies' decision to go to Calm Horizons was learning Warden, not Min (or anyone else), had authored the message that had ordered Angus to show Nick the message (thereby giving Nick the priority codes to control Angus)...but had contained machine language t...

Sly and the Family Stone – Everyday People

Lucy worked a different club every day
And though she put her mind to it
Her heart was never in it

Earlier this week, Forestal posted a PDF version of Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of The Land . There is a lot of material at the back of the book that sheds light on her methodology and how the bulk of the detail she put into her maps and drawings was based on textual analysis. I haven't the cartograp...

It isn't.

I need to flip the classic SRD reference "Give him something broken" on its head. Yesterday's PDF was huge gift, and I honor the giver. I binged half the book that day. Today, to have the so-much-better-resolution version was a "wait, there's more!" for the ages. Not only is the ...