There's a standup routine where some guy explains the differences between all three and then wraps up with "the reason most people don't explain this is because it makes you sound like a pedophile" and that's the only time I ever thought it worked.

I'm catching up on back issues of Uncanny while waiting for my Libby hold of Don Quixote to open up. (I couldn't get through it in one borrow, and had to request it a second time.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

The one that lives rent-free in my head is Miéville's The City & The City. Is it a social construct? Folded space? Both/and?

I recently flew into/out of LaGuardia and I felt like I was on the set of some made-for-AppleTV sci-fi series. I posit the only reason it hasn't been used as such is that it'd be impossible to shut down for the time it'd take to film.

And most if not all of them are under 18 too! Reported.

Heh, lucky you. For me, today is a day for IT ripping out my computer and dumping a new Win11-capable rig on my desk.

UPDATE: it turned out rather nice. Even the teens ate it, although, full disclosure, one of them pronounced it “bland.”

If you haven’t tried the audiobook version, you should. The author and her sister sing, as incidental music.

Speaking as a man with six cats: yes it is.

Oh man, you're in for a ride. I wish I had it all ahead of me again, to experience for the first time. Cheers!

AN ETHICAL GROOK

I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.

--Piet Hein