I have been, I guess, concentrating on aliens, implants, Lemmy, and other trivia for the last week or so, since in the real and deadly world, our elected representatives are so self-seeking scum-happy they devote time we don’t have to politically positioning themselves, via the minutiae of congressional procedure, and advancing their ’08 re-election agendas, while the killing and maiming goes on regardless, (and the mystery of the 363 tons of cash that went missing), and meanwhile we’re effectively distracted by pampered and possibly homicidal love-bugged astronauts. Aside from the horrendous civilian casualties, The New York Times suggests that the insurgents have evolved some painfully simple measures to take US military and contract merc choppers into Black Hawk Down reruns…
“Some aspects of the recent crashes indicate that insurgents have become smarter about anticipating American flight patterns and finding ways to use old weapons to down helicopters, according to military and witness reports. The aircraft, many of which are equipped with sophisticated antimissile technology, still can be vulnerable to more conventional weapons fired from the ground.”
And then Anna Nicole Smith drops dead as Elvis and I can’t help but wonder if one or more of her lawyer-manager-sleazeball-courtiers took a posture of by-any-means-necessary-with-extreme-prejudice and whacked the poor girl’s pathetic and confused ass. I mean, she’s stumbling Dairy Queen, OxyContin wreckage with a legal umbilical to around $100 million and – really – how hard would it be? You’d only have to leave enough dope in the plain sight and she’d do the rest herself. Right there in her suite at the Hardrock Casino. (And I’ve learned the hard way whereof I speak.)
All of which tends to push me in the direction of…
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8 comments:
Hi Mick, I am a really big fan.
The first book I ever read was Their Masters War, and I have recently found a copy of it on the internet which I was going to re-read. However I have just bought myself one of those snazzy Sony Readers and wonderd if there was any way to get an electronic copy of "Their Masters War". Just wondering..
JamesATjames-hall.org.uk
I regret there are no electronic versions of any of my older work, but right now I'm busily talking to see what the chances are for making it so. Must confess my mind kinda boggles that the first book you read should have been one of mine.
er, isn't "the tale of willy's rats" still downloadable from funtopia?
Indeed it is. But I have no idea of what software supports what, and I kinda doubt it would load into on of those snazzy Sony Readers. Maybe Funtopia Rich will come in on this.
I gotta confess I'm not up on all these new readers as I'd like to be, but having just had a cursory check of the Sony Reader's capabilities and spec. there shouldn't be any problem downloading the Tale of Willy's Rats on to it for reading, as it's in Adobe Acrobat pdf. Give it a go! Having said that I just looked at Willy's Rats for the first time in ages just now, and noticed that there may be a few typos that I didn't proof read out after coverting it from the original text into Word via an old version of an OCR software package I had at the time. Still it shouldn't spoil your enjoyment.
I didn't know it was online. Mick, I think you should do more BSP (Blatant Self Promotion) in your blog. Currently you don't do any at all. Too much could be irritating but I think *some* is in order.
Having said that, the Willy's Rats' page tells me it doesn't exist. That is to say, http://freespace.virgin.net/arsydd.funtopia gives a 404. (See, a perfect excuse to have that corrected and then post about your books.)
My friend Jake from Invisible Books (see link)says that the Sony Reader right now only accepts stuff supported by its own system, but, he figures, it will soon be ripped off and adapted to handle regular pdf files and such.
With the right software, I can get any content onto the sony reader I want.
Its a wonderfull little device.
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