A cool story, i liked it.
I have to say i continue to love Norm Sherman as guest host, his intros and endings are so incredibly funny and awesome that i find myself relistening to those parts several times. With all due respect to Mur i kinda wish Norm was the host all the time ;D
A cool story, i liked it.
I have to say i continue to love Norm Sherman as guest host, his intros and endings are so incredibly funny and awesome that i find myself relistening to those parts several times. With all due respect to Mur i kinda wish Norm was the host all the time ;D
You should check out The Drabblecast. (http://web.me.com/normsherman/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html) The host there has a very similar style :P
a shout out to Kij Johnson for a fun reading.Yes, actually. Proper good reading. :)
I have to say i continue to love Norm Sherman as guest host
Thunder lizards aside, I liked this story better when the hero was a teddy bear.
I have to say i continue to love Norm Sherman as guest host
Sorry to nitpick, but Norm is a regular co-host. He hosts 50% of the time. I like the back and forth between them. I do think it's funny that Norm gets all of the giant lizard stories. Too funny.
Also, what kind of jaded jerk can't smile at the idea of the entire galaxy only being able to have interstellar travel due to a genetically engineered dinosaur teaching a non corporal pan-dimensional slave being the philosophy of selflessness as taught by Gautama Buddha?
though I think my favorite part was how the AI described her task to her: you're going to find a.... thingamajig. ...and you need to... jigger it. yeah. let's go with that. :D
I'm very much enjoying being on the monthly seesaw with Mur. As long as I get stories with parasites and dinosaurs and she gets stories that involve tact and wherewithal.
Pratchettian is an awesome word and I will try to use it in the next conversation I have.I'm very much enjoying being on the monthly seesaw with Mur. As long as I get stories with parasites and dinosaurs and she gets stories that involve tact and wherewithal.
Hehe, now I am picturing Norm and Mur on a seesaw (or teeter-totter if you prefer) on a children playground. Sharing Norm's side is this intelligent dino-mama with cowboy gun, which probably has had its tongue replaced by a creepy parasite. And on Mur's side, she is sharing it with Tact and Wherewithal, who I imagine to be Pratchettian anthropomorphic personifications. Tact has a waxed mustache, and Wherewithal is wearing a powdered wig. :)
Actually, I thought the gradual spread of Buddhism through the story's characters - the dinosaur, the gun, the thingamajig... it was hillarious. I kept on cracking up and slapping the steering while. Priceless.
RE: the reading - I personally would have been annoyed by such theatrics in this piece, so I'm rather glad they were understated. The gun's personality was such that, amplified, would have quite irritated me.
When Norm said "Steve Eley, wherever he is" was he being serious? Are they not still in contact? Norm and Mur are great. I love the Drabblecast. But I would still like to hear Steve's voice every now and then.
When Norm said "Steve Eley, wherever he is" was he being serious? Are they not still in contact? Norm and Mur are great. I love the Drabblecast. But I would still like to hear Steve's voice every now and then.Steve is still in the cloud. I follow his general movements on Twitter (http://twitter.com/sfeley (http://twitter.com/sfeley)), but we can probably kidnap him and make him read something if you need. I say that with Norm-level seriousness, of course.
we can probably kidnap him and make him read something if you need.
RE: the reading - I personally would have been annoyed by such theatrics in this piece, so I'm rather glad they were understated. The gun's personality was such that, amplified, would have quite irritated me.
And the EA forum's criminal element is born! :p
There are some problems with this story, as many have pointed out, and I'd love to list them, but my mind cannot move past sentient, Buddhist, passivist, vegetarian, fucking dinosaurs with sentient, smart-arse, insane, fucking guns. seriously.
I'm wondering how many creatures humanity had to uplift before they got to the Tyrannosaurus freakin Rex. I'm guessing all of them. Because isn't the thing that, without even seeing one, we call a "tyrant lizard king" the absolute last thing you want to make smart?I think it was last week, or perhaps the week before last, when scientists in Japan announced that they would clone a mammoth. Something to do with new techniques in repairing damaged chromosomes and gestating the baby mammoth in an elephant for two and a half years. One radio personality said "Well, we have finally found the only scientists on the planet who have not seen Jurassic Park."
I found it difficult to accept that the the galactic transporter authorities had no contingency plan other than wait 12 years.
(http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/01/06/calvin-trex.jpg)