Recent content by Cordwainer Fish

Hopefully you're at least on a weekly cadence. We're on every other week.

Cancelled for three times running.

Damning indictment of the month, and it's got a strong chance at taking the year.

From the subject line, I thought it would be a class action suit over 'somehow Palpatine came back' and wanted to know how to join the class.

According to their website, the only games that exist are the dragon game and that one card game. I have never felt the inclination to go there.

When i was going through my mother's things looking for the title to her car [1], I came across one of my first grade report cards. It had a handwritten note criticizing me for going to books to find information rather than asking someone. Today I'm a librarian and whoever wrote that note is...

EURISKO is extremely damned relevant to the topic.

The EURISKO source code is available, and there's a compatibility shim to get Interlisp running on Common Lisp (though it looks like it requires XQuartz, which I absolutely do not want to install).

Do not taunt Immersion Ball.

If you want immersion, go to a swimming pool.

You'll have to be a lot more specific.

Famous scene in Annie Hall; Woody is waiting in line forced to listen to some pseudointellectual blather about McLuhan until he can't stand to hear any more and pulls McLuhan himself out of hyperspace to set the guy straight.

I want to hook the setting up to wall current and see that only a little smoke comes out. I happen to have Marshall McLuhan right here and I don't want him to say that the authors know nothing of his work. I want the setting to reward thinking about, not punish it.

Billy the Kid Exactly what it says on the tin. Filmed in a part of Canada that looks nothing whatsoever like southeastern New Mexico, which is very jarring. Series finale does much violence to real history. I don't do stars. Belgravia Downtown Abbey with different characters and a few...