Month: November 2004

I got turned on to Terry Pratchett‘s DiscWorld series by David Price and Lauren Holmes and their incessant quoting of him in their AIM away messages. I started reading the series last spring, and have thoroughly enjoyed them . Anyway, thought the following post from Boing Boing was therefore of interest.

Pratchett’s “Only You Can Save Mankind”: the musical – UPDATED
Cory Doctorow:
Terry Pratchett’s novel Only You Can Save Mankind is a charming and fine young adult novel about a kid who discovers that the Space Invaders he chases onscreen are a distant fleet who are being massacred by his hand. Like all Pratchett, it is funny as anything, and like all of Pratchett’s YA novels, it’s eminently suitable for grownups as well.

The book has been adapted for the stage and will run this summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Pratchett says, “If I’d known it was going to be so good I’d have written a better book.”

Link

(Thanks, Lynn!)

Update: Philip sez, “It’s currently being broadcast as a 3-part radio play on BBC 7 and can be found beginning here until next Monday (15th Nov).

[Boing Boing]

I kept waiting for one of the major networks to call it, but it hasn’t happened. But, given that several have called Ohio for Bush, and several others have called Nevada for Bush, and given the almost 4 million vote lead in the popular vote, I hereby declare Bush the winner, and now I can go to sleep.

ELECTION DAY REMINDERS

ELECTION DAY REMINDERS: Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before today’s votes are counted.

You have the right to vote. You do not have the right to see the man of your choice in the White House.

If George W. Bush wins the election, the world will still spin on its axis. Canada will not grant you asylum. If John Kerry wins the election, America will still be America. Australia will not grant you asylum.

People who vote for the other guy aren’t stupid, brainwashed, or evil. They are your friends and family. Someone you love will almost certainly cancel your vote. (My wife cancels out mine.)

If, by some chance, everyone you know votes for the loser it won’t mean the election was stolen. It will only show that you live in a bubble.

If this thing is close (the victor could easily win by 0.1 percent) try not to read too much into it. We’ll still be closely divided.

If the election doesn’t go your way, don’t pop off as though America were Guatemala under the generals. You’ll get lots of attention, but it won’t be the kind you want. People will laugh, not near you but at you.

[Instapundit.com]

Apparently not. This morning around a quarter to one, the storms that were moving through decided to take out the spanish willow tree in Tom and Misha’s back yard.

Although one limb did manage to break their bedroom window, the tree fell pretty much perfectly to avoid major damage. A little more to the left, and it would have crushed their bedroom.

A little more to the right, and it would have crushed my guestroom…and Jerome in it!