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I breathe farts and drink recycled urine. I don't think wearing a bit of hippo sweat is going to bother me too much.

I heard on the Skepticality podcast that in the state of New Mexico, Pluto has been legislated to remain a planet. Apparently Pluto was discovered by a New Mexican (New Mexicanian, New Mexacanite?, New Mexicaner?) I thought it was the state of Illinois, and it was discovered by an Illinoisa... Illi...

Thanks for letting us know! As they've found on another podcast which shall remain nameless, listeners can cope with a week or two off if they know about it.

Have a good break.

Goal for the week: to use 'flugelhorn' and 'halibut' in conversation w/ someone. Hopefully wi/ the same sentence. I know I can do it if I find the right crowd. The flugel player in our band is a very keen fisherman. Doing it with class, there's the trick. (There's an idea for a Drabblecast forum ga...

It was Podcastle Episode 25, Anywhere there's a game.

Good story.

One thing I should have said before I got sidetracked with the identity of the instrument in the photo was that this was actually a really good story. It was pretty easy to get wrapped up with the great production and the overall absurdity of the piece. Apart from that, it's a solid piece of fiction...

http://www.imageposter.com/storage/t150/27007Cornet-Bb-large.jpg Not that I'd ever imply that Wikipedia could get something wrong, but that sure looks more like a Flugelhorn than a Cornet to me. (another brass guy... well at least I was in High School...) EDIT: Hmmm maybe not, it's hard to tell the...

deflective wrote:possibly the most disturbing thing to come out of australia yet

Hey! That's our church's ladies group! I thought last week's potluck seemed a little thrown together.

Just where did that picture come from? http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/collections/jazz.htm Holy haleakala! That's Louis Armstrong's cornet! I do stand corrected, although I will mutter something about Americans trying to make brass instruments look and sound like other instruments. If you want an instr...

How many takes did you need for the story? And what about the outro? I had to practice the line for about 45 minutes to say it fast, not easy. But now I can do it in my sleep. Motor-mouth memory maybe. Two points of order, both regarding cornets. First, the word 'cornet' is pronounced with the acce...

Wow, great story. This one was much easier to follow than the last Frank Key offering. It was suitably bizarre, but it was fairly obvious what was going on. I'm pretty impressed with that line, too Norm. How many takes did you need for the story? And what about the outro? Two points of order, both r...

I was okay with the restrictions, which permitted research on anything, but just limited federal funding. That seemed to me to respect the consciences of taxpayers who otherwise would see themselves as subsidizing the taking of human life. This is the thing I can't understand. Aren't the embryos in...

This is a really hard one. I hate slippery slope arguments, because they make ethical acts unethical by association. In this case though, I can see problems. Once the gate's open, you can't get the horse back. I don't have a problem with the technology. It's the consequences that bother me. Do I wan...

All this arguing over pies, and not one meat pie on the menu. Fruit pies make a great dessert (preferably with cream) but nothing says 'eat me' like a good steak pie dripping with sauce.

And that curry pie I had for lunch last week---now there's quarry worthy of a hunt.

Or, if you can't get anyone to hold the sign, you can always take the Chaser's approach.

delfedd wrote:They specifically said that the food processor didn't run off of electricity. It runs directly off the food that's put into the processor.

Ah.

That last post with reading the subject line makes sense. That last post without reading the subject line made me laugh out loud, following tweedy's post. I thought he was asking the big question hanging over the story. Those boys needed a jolly long extension cord to keep that food processor going...

I have followed boingboing for some time. Cory Doctorow mentioned Asimov's and Analog a few times, and I found them in my local newsagents. There was an article in one of those about sci-fi podcasts. I'd listened to a few novels from podiobooks, but I was looking for short fiction. EP seemed to fit ...

I didn't vote in the poll---it's missing the options 'bizarre,' 'strange' or 'downright weird.' Consider this a write-in. I really did like this one. It was a great exercise for understanding how we interpret the things we read and hear. Everything in the story seemed like a metaphor, but it didn't ...

Talking about canals and my Opa, he used to drive (?) barges on the canals. During WWII he smuggled resistance fighters around Holland. We're all glad he didn't get caught. I keep getting Benny Hill-like images of your Opa driving his boat through the canals, a few Germans chasing him on bikes all ...