Comments on: Silly Thought

By: An Eric

An Eric — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:38:30 +0000

Bensdad00: that’s it! We have a winner!

By: Aelf'en

Aelf'en — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:37:51 +0000

I just love that picture. Ohio’s one of those places I’ve only ever been *through*, on a train, in the middle of the night. But I grew up a stone’s throw from Lancaster, PA so I feel ya on the clopping of Amish buggies. :)

By: Shrike58

Shrike58 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:50:36 +0000

Maybe it’s time to write that Clifford D. Simak homage?

By: bensdad00

bensdad00 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:50:36 +0000

An Eric @40

How about using pneumatic tubes powered by giant hand-pushed bellows – all the moving parts are visible with none of that ‘electricity’ magic.

By: Soni

Soni — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:27:47 +0000

Your lifestyle is just one step closer to the Tatooine ideal of technologically supported, isolated self-sustainability, you see.

By: dance

dance — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:36:31 +0000

Awesome shot. Were you standing in the middle of the road to get it? (I can’t say how much hard drive space I’ve wasted on trying to get a shot like that while actually driving, with a dirty windshield, yet.)

re 30: I don’t understand why it takes me months to get to the post office, but it does.

By: Andrea from SF

Andrea from SF — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:06:06 +0000

Well, you needed somewhere to live while waiting for our Computer Overlords to take over the world and enslave us all. Why not somewhere pretty?

By: An Eric

An Eric — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:43:04 +0000

Aha! Then that’s the way for him to do it, Bensdad00! He needs to insist on telegrams to the point that he starts his own telegraph service.

Better yet, since copper wiring is expensive: he can set up a private telephone service using Dixie Cups and miles of string. Gives him a nice Howard Hughes angle, especially if he answers every “phone” call with, “Ha, you can’t steal my brains because there’s no copper in this line, you brain-stealing commie bastard!”

I can imagine the talk at cons: “Hey, what’s wrong with Scalzi, you talked to him lately?” “No, he still hasn’t given me cup. You?”

By: Rick York

Rick York — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:41:10 +0000

My equivalent irony to that is that when I use the computer, I wear eyeglasses which were worn by my great-great-grandfather. They were sent home with his other effects when he was killed during the Civil War.

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:22:27 +0000

Currently writing this in my dining room, between checking on news, and dinner. Wireless laptop, over a Hughes satellite.

Can we all pray that Sen. Stevens does not gain re-election.

How about we all agree that anyone who’s been in office more then 2 decades, should consider being retired.

Anyway, we’ve got farms land all around us, and only 40 minutes from downtown Indy. Currently only have 2 acres, but hoping to buy more later. Prices should have stabilized now that ethanol is less popular (yeah low oil prices.)