Just to note...

I have a stuffed Cthulhu doll. This isn't the plush Cthulhu you get down at the stores, this is a hand-made stuffed Cthulhu that was made one at a time by this woman in the Midwest somewhere. I ordered a bunch for my college sci-fi group many years ago and it took months to get them all in.

Mine is blue paisely. It has evil eyes that follow you around.

I also got one for my nephew.

I have a lap top. It is how I get on this here Intarweb. Being a laptop, it gets warm after some use. It sits on a low chest next to my bed.

The cat likes warm things. It likes to sit on them. It likes to sit on my laptop. This is no good.

"Shoo! Cat! Shoo!"

But the cat, her English is not so good and she merely stares at me.

It is then that I hit upon an idea. If I put the Cthulhu doll down on the laptop, the cat cannot rest upon dread Cthulhu's non-Euclidan topology.

So my laptop is now the basalt slab upon which dread Cthulhu lies.

Ia! Ia!
Tom

Just to note...

I have a stuffed Cthulhu doll. This isn't the plush Cthulhu you get down at the stores, this is a hand-made stuffed Cthulhu that was made one at a time by this woman in the Midwest somewhere. I ordered a bunch for my college sci-fi group many years ago and it took months to get them all in.

Mine is blue paisely. It has evil eyes that follow you around.

I also got one for my nephew.

I have a lap top. It is how I get on this here Intarweb. Being a laptop, it gets warm after some use. It sits on a low chest next to my bed.

The cat likes warm things. It likes to sit on them. It likes to sit on my laptop. This is no good.

"Shoo! Cat! Shoo!"

But the cat, her English is not so good and she merely stares at me.

It is then that I hit upon an idea. If I put the Cthulhu doll down on the laptop, the cat cannot rest upon dread Cthulhu's non-Euclidan topology.

So my laptop is now the basalt slab upon which dread Cthulhu lies.

Ia! Ia!
Tom

Why am I marrying this woman?

Because when she wants to explain where I've gone wrong in the conversation/argument, she makes her hands into puppets and re-enacts the conversation.

My glee cannot be adequately described in words
Tom

Why am I marrying this woman?

Because when she wants to explain where I've gone wrong in the conversation/argument, she makes her hands into puppets and re-enacts the conversation.

My glee cannot be adequately described in words
Tom

A much better book to read...

So I really liked Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. It's a book from the 50's so the concerns of gender and race are interesting in retrospect. Also, atomic war in the 50's is a lot different than atomic war in the 80's or 90's and probably a lot more deadly (both in terms of weapons and in terms of our understanding about the after-effects of a massive nuclear war).

But when civiliation goes to hell in a handbasket, here's one way that it might come through. Perhaps a bit optimistic, but I do think it was a fairly realistic survey of what life would be like post-holocaust in areas not directly hit by bombs. The technical and practical information flowed through the narrative easily without being forced. So yeah, I liked it a lot.

later
Tom

A much better book to read...

So I really liked Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank. It's a book from the 50's so the concerns of gender and race are interesting in retrospect. Also, atomic war in the 50's is a lot different than atomic war in the 80's or 90's and probably a lot more deadly (both in terms of weapons and in terms of our understanding about the after-effects of a massive nuclear war).

But when civiliation goes to hell in a handbasket, here's one way that it might come through. Perhaps a bit optimistic, but I do think it was a fairly realistic survey of what life would be like post-holocaust in areas not directly hit by bombs. The technical and practical information flowed through the narrative easily without being forced. So yeah, I liked it a lot.

later
Tom