Not So Few Monstrosities » Uncategorized http://marclaidlaw.com "Mark How Far the Signal's Flung, Milady..." Sat, 05 May 2012 03:54:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Jimmy Carter of Mars http://marclaidlaw.com/2012/05/04/jimmy-carter-of-mars/ http://marclaidlaw.com/2012/05/04/jimmy-carter-of-mars/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 03:54:02 +0000 marc http://marclaidlaw.com/?p=608 “The truth is that the Thern have had — and still have — an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate the green-skinned Thark and copper-skinned humans of Helium. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of Thark and egg-bearing humans throughout the Martian world.”

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I owned this one. I may even still have it. I found it irresistible and intimidating in equal measure, so they achieved a sort of balance in which I occasionally looked at the cover but never actually managed to get closer to it than that.

 

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]]> http://marclaidlaw.com/2011/12/30/top-10-bags-of-fritos-i-ate-in-2011/feed/ 1 Poker-Cheating Ghost Systems: Theory and Application http://marclaidlaw.com/2011/12/08/poker-cheating-ghost-systems-theory-and-application/ http://marclaidlaw.com/2011/12/08/poker-cheating-ghost-systems-theory-and-application/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:38:43 +0000 marc http://marclaidlaw.com/?p=549 PCG is pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems: Theory and Application, edited by Professor Ghostmurderer (Institute for Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems Studies, Nanjing University of Eerionautics and Psionautics, China).

Poker-Cheating-Ghost Systems: Theory and Application is devoted to the international advancement of the theory and application of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems. It seeks to foster professional exchanges between scientists and practitioners who are interested in the foundations and applications of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems. Through the pioneering work on Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems completed during the past years, Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory has become an important ingredient in the development of information processing.

Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems-based techniques are powerful tools in addressing those systems in which information is partially known and partially unknown, by relying on ghosts willing to leak information to which only ghosts are privy. The theory of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems now encompasses a rich corpus including Poker-Cheating-Ghost programming, system analysis, Poker-Cheating-Ghost generating, Poker-Cheating-Ghost modelling, Poker-Cheating-Ghost prediction,Poker-Cheating-Ghost decision-making, and Poker-Cheating-Ghost control. Articles that appear in the journal will contain theory and applications of Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems as well as various contributions of hybrid approaches combining Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems with other theories for tackling uncertain information more effectively and efficiently.

The first issue contains eight excellent articles, written by some of the leading academics in the Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory and application field:

  • Novel models of Poker-Cheating-Ghost relational analysis based on visual angle of similarity and nearness (Liu Fantom, Xie Spooking, Scary Forrest)
  • Complete analysis of bankruptcy syndrome using Poker-Cheating-Ghost systems theory (Emil Scaredycat and Camelia Cardtrick)
  • Application of Poker-Cheating-Ghost theory approach to evaluation of organizational vision (Scariborz Rahimnia and Scaredi Moghadasian)
  • Poker-Cheating-Ghost system model with time lag and application to simulation of karst spring discharge (Boo Yonghong, Wang Nightcrie, Zhao Ghostjuan and Eeri Huamin)
  • Reliability of operations of Poker-Cheating-Ghost numbers using kernels (Yang Fright and Liu Haunt)
  • p-moment exponential robust stability of Poker-Cheating-Ghost neutral stochastic delay systems (Bu Chunhua)
  • Research on generalized non-equidistance GM (1,1) model based on matrix analysis (Xiao Chilz and Peng Terror)
  • Research on location-routing problem of reverse logistics with Poker-Cheating-Ghost recycling demand based on PCG (Var.)
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My story “Pokky Man, A Film by Vernor Hertzwig” is appearing in this collection, just announced for an October release.  Joe Lansdale’s novella, Dread Island, will be published first as a standalone book, available at Comic-Con.

Link to IDW’s press release.

]]> http://marclaidlaw.com/2010/07/17/classics-mutilated/feed/ 3 Bronzemurder vs. Oggez Rashas: An Illustrated Tale Out of Dwarf Fortress http://marclaidlaw.com/2010/04/20/bronzemurder-vs-oggez-rashas-an-illustrated-tale-out-of-dwarf-fortress/ http://marclaidlaw.com/2010/04/20/bronzemurder-vs-oggez-rashas-an-illustrated-tale-out-of-dwarf-fortress/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:31:43 +0000 marc http://marclaidlaw.com/?p=441 An amazing illustrated account of Dwarf Fortress.

Let me add that I have gotten partly through the detailed tutorial, may never actually play this game, but I still enjoy the stories it generates…and this is beautifully illustrated as well.

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Not a Hipstamatic shot.  Scan of an actual Lomograph, shot on actual film, a long time ago.


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Let me add, I hope you will be a good friend of the Chalupacabra.

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