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This week’s Greasy Spoon Ernest Borgnines game will run in the next Deadpan episode.
And this week’s Greasy Jelly Bean winner is. . . .
Vanamonde! (he was the only one who sent in a guess). Congrats on the point, Van.
Imperial Earth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Earth
Rendezvous with Rama:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
2001 a Space Odyssey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28novel%29
I’ve lost count to how many times I’ve read this novel. Although I was interested in scifi shows like the Outer Limits, UFO and Space 1999 as a kid, didn’t start reading scifi till I was much older. Started off with novelizations of movies (like Alien and The Black Hole), then after reading 2001 started collecting other ACC novels and branched off into other other authors like Harry Harrison and Joe Haldeman.
Vanamonde Arthur C. Clarke asplosion!
Van, have you ever read Songs of Distant Earth? Or more specifically, have you ever heard the Mike Oldfield album, “Songs of Distant Earth”, based on the book? Excellent, if you dig Mike Oldfield-y type of stuff.
Mixed feelings about ACC:
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/feb/02clarke.htm
2010: Odyssey Two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
The sequel to 2001, and simple not as good. Didn’t think the movie adaption was that bad.
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The Songs of Distance Earth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Distant_Earth
Read both the novel and short story it was expanded from. Again I prefer the short story.
Right!
From the wiki entry:
On 26 May 2000 he was made a Knight Bachelor[18] “for services to literature” at a ceremony in Colombo.[19] The award of a knighthood had been announced in the 1998 New Year Honours,[20] but investiture of the award had been delayed, at Clarke’s request, because of an accusation, by the British tabloid The Sunday Mirror, of paedophilia, which was, however, found to be baseless by Sri Lankan police and retracted by the paper soon after.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
Of course wiki entries can be biased or inaccurate or sometimes the actual truth..
2061: Odyssey 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2061:_Odyssey_Three
I have a few more story collections and a couple of hardbacks but I can’t find them, so that’s the end of this ACC asplosion.
The first time I saw Loudon Wainwright III in concert, his daughter Martha Wainwright was the support singer:
http://www.marthawainwright.com/
Wanted to buy her CD, but she had sold out by the time I got to the front of the queue.
Aaaaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh, Jack had already mentioned Martha Wainwright.
lmao
Don’t hold back, Martha! Tell us how you REALLY feel. :)
Jack: I have the Oldfield album. Love it.
Well, with all the talk of this Obama speech yesterday, I figure I should at least listen to it to be informed.
I’ve dowloaded it from Youtube and converted and put it on my Ipod. I plan to watch/listen to it tonight while I workout at the gym tonight.
Multitasking is the way.
Ed: What do you use to download & convert?
ditto – awesome! I’ve never known of anyone else familiar with that Oldfield album. I almost forgot that I’d written a review of that book at SFReader.com: http://www.sfreader.com/read_review.asp?book=554
Who, ahem, also recently re-posted their Spherical Tomi review: http://sfreader.com/read_review.asp?book=1155
Ed: I consider you our resident intelligent Conservative, I’d love to get your take on the Obama speech.
I bought the album the same year the Shoemaker-Levy comet collided with Jupiter. I also was fortunate enough to meet Levy at the Ottawa observatory at that time. The album brings back fond memories.
It appears the speech wasn’t enough to get the talking heads to shut up, even though theres a lovely mortgage crisis with Government bailing out banks and weather destroying Atlanta that they can be covering. I feel an urge to fly to Atlanta and stab Amy Holmes with an ice pick. Unfortunately that would be a race crime.
The new speculation is that while McCain won’t touch the subject with a ten foot pole, there will be plenty of independent parties throwing ads on television attacking him over it in the general election.
I shall steal something for Jack and email before too much longer…
First, the technical. I used this site to pull down the video from Youtube
http://www.downloader9.com/
I can only do one link per post, can’t I?
**sorry, got interrupted**
Alright, after I got the file, I used this free program to convert it to an Ipod compatible format and save it to Itunes for sync up:
http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/iPod/
That part went quite well and it will be useful to remember this capability for the future.
As for the speech itself, overall, I thought it was quite good and I definitely recommend everyone give it a listen. It’s about 40 minutes, so you’ll need a good block of time.
This is the Youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU
I’ll need to give some more thought before I say anything more substantial. Plus, I need to get to sleep. See you guys on the flip side.
You can also use Miro to grab YouTube videos:
http://www.getmiro.com/
johnny cash leave your guns at home…
How do you come up with so much material to blog with?…