Comments for Musings of a Babylon Lurker

Comment on More Books I Intend to Read by lurker

lurker — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:54:00 +0000

Welcome CF, to my blog

You shall be welcome to comment on anything I wrote here

Comment on More Books I Intend to Read by Compound Fracture

Compound Fracture — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:02:37 +0000

Hey B-Lurk! Looking forward to that blogging we discussed over at the other place.

Comment on More Books I Intend to Read by lurker

lurker — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:05:52 +0000

Hi Hakan,

I think I will,.

Please don’t get me hooked on yet another podcast. Got too many already.

Comment on More Books I Intend to Read by Hakan

Hakan — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:06:52 +0000

Hi Jan, After you finish it, head over to good old Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas and listen to their first show ever!

http://www.kickassmysticninjas.com/2005/10/16/show-1-hyperion/

Comment on The YALID Syndrome by lurker

lurker — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:53:19 +0000

Well, Tim, the blog in question was a “community” of individual blogs, and I believe the individual blogger had no say in the policy, so I let him off that particular hook.

Comment on The YALID Syndrome by tim callender

tim callender — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:58:53 +0000

If I have to join in order to leave a comment, that tells me the person in charge of the blog (forum, board, whatever) really isn’t interested in what I have to say. So I just shrug and go on to the next thing.

Comment on The YALID Syndrome by lurker

lurker — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:51:08 +0000

Yes, that would be one way aroun it – I will have to see how that fits me, thanks for your consideration

Comment on The YALID Syndrome by RedEyeSky

RedEyeSky — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:28:08 +0000

My timesaver is to have a class of things that don’t require mega-secure logins, like the blogs etc you mentioned, is to use the first 5 letters in the name of the blog, site etc and then have a “PIN” – 4 letters/digits that are not a word, and are fairly random – which I append to my log-ins.

So, your would say be babyl5ttL, where 8GpL was my “PIN” – which it isn’t of course!

Not ideal, and agree they’re a faff, but a format like that can save time as you only need recall your “PIN”.

Comment on The Irony of Charles Stross’ Hatred of Space Opera by Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:54:58 +0000

I don’t really see “space opera” as a meaningful term, anyway. What’s it supposed to be? What common characteristics do BSG, B5 and TNG have? Trying to categorize fiction by genre tends to lead to superficial and often entirely inaccurate conclusions.

Comment on Charles Stross hates Star Trek and Babylon 5 etc. by lurker

lurker — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:34:46 +0000

Yes , he has done his bit to alienate potential readers, but that is his problem.

If you are familiar with the physicist Michio Kaku, you may know that he does not consider FTL travel physically impossible, though we may have a big problem generating and controlling the amount of energy necessary.

About the “modern audience” comment

“Wait …. I did not know I wanted squiiiiiids iiiiin spaaaaaace” !! … oh no, I don’t – maybe I am not modern enough …