The problem of the Randomly Generated Epic.

Ok. Here is a 'what if' scenario. If a person had created a program that contained demonstrations of artificial entities that were the sum of their attributes. Not physically, because that does not matter if the entities don't need a physical form. Kool.
Start with a certain number of attribute points. That would represent size. With each itteration of the entities in the program, a certain random change could alter an attribute or two. The goal would be to have food, shelter, love, happiness. Other attributes could easily be: speed,
Certainly would be something if we could live through to live on the tale.

Problem with Steam Powered Time Travel

The first person to try steam powered time travel did not think about the problem that the fire and steam would run out while he was gone. So the poor sotty bugger got left ahead in time.

That raises the question, that if you could choose to time travel, which way would you go? Forward or backward?

So the sotty bugger decided to invent the black box that ran forever, and so could be hooked up to the steam generator, and left to run so that the sotty fellow could return at will. But then someone stole the black box. And there are copies now. And they have a plan. But they don't have a clue.

Childe Roland Remix

Okay, so 2 heroes are about to jump into the final fray and fight the climactic battle against the foozle. They have outwitted the evil person following them.

They have a moment to reflect and say hero-typish things and then the evil person comes up behind them and gets inbetween them and the foozle. The evil man starts to fight the foozle which is a twist. Then the 2 heroes try to help the evil man, and he fights them and the foozle. They get confused. Then they think the evil guy is trying to steal their thunder, their story. They think he is proud, after fame.

Evil man fights them off and tells them to live.

The two heroes are confused and the evil man finds a way into the foozle and the evil man and the foozle self-anhiliate each other. The two heroes are left, alone, facing more questions than they thought they had answers for.

They turn to each other and realize they have to find out this evil guy's story.

That is for the second movie.
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Items from Craig Kellum

Here is what the phone conversation notes were after talking with Craig Kellum:

1. What is the idea?
2. Sell the story to the audience.
3. What is the logic that can sell the story to the audience?

Learn to do what you don't do best!

1. The biggest problem is to create credibility within the reality that is created.
2. The story needs to work.
3. Story must proceed in an orderly, cogent way.

Russ's script worked conceptually, but not internally. Viscerally.

Funny circle

A class is doing flash movies, the characters are circles.

Teacher tries to help one girl with sound. He tells her to try a different program. She says "Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?"

The teacher says " That's a no win question."

I says, "I just heard that 6 times in the last 2 days from 3 of my 4 daughters. "

The girl shakes her head like, "You don't get it, so don't bug me." or "You're pathetic."

The boy beside her needed help with running flash. Teacher says, " You're clicking around like a rat in a maze, trying to find your way out. "

The boy is laughing and nods his head. I laughed and said, "The teacher is sharp like a tack today."

The teacher says, "Like a razor. That's what. Like a razor." Turns to the boy, "Am I right." He is hamming things up a little. Turns to the girl. "Am I right?"

Without looking up she says, "Are you kidding me?" Shakes her head without looking at him.
"Are you kidding me?"

The class dissolved into laughter.

Michael Moorcock Lives !!

"What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa." - Michael Moorcock

I thought he was dead.

http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/

Fight Globalism -> Globally Globalizm Globalixm Axiom

Freedom from Efficiency !!

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March 17 -> Leprechaun Day

Link to Steam Powered Airplane

More about Besler Steam Engine here.

books to read

Top X favorite genre books read last year? (Where X is 5 or less)
1. Glasshouse by Charles Stross
2. The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi.
3. 1632 by Eric Flint.

Top X favorite genre books of all time? (Where X is 5 or less)
1. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
2. Accelerando by Charles Stross
3. Watchmen by Allen Moore.

X favorite genre series? (Where X is 5 or less)
1. Coyote by Allen Steele.
2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
3. Y: The Last Man by Bryan K. Vaughan.
4. Mad Scientists Club by Bertrand R. Brinley

Top X favorite genre short stories? (Where X is 5 or less)
1. "Veritas" by Robert Reed.
2. "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov.
3. "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
4. "Lobsters" by Charles Stross
5. "Across the Eastern Divide" by Allen Steele