Owl Pellets for July 27th
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Owl Pellets: My Undigested Internets.
- Fermi’s Paradox – The Last Challenge for Copernicanism? – I haven’t read this yet (going to save this baby for a relaxing day off — yes, I’m a nerd, or I would be if I was smarter) but it deals with Fermi’s Paradox. For those you who don’t know what that is, it’s basically like this — If there’s other intelligent life in the universe, we should know by now. That we haven’t been encountered by any proves there is not and that we truly are alone. It’s fun stuff and, though I have brush up on my Fermi before reading this, I remember his argument being pretty damn solid.
- Esmerel: Are You Gruntled Yet? – I have a long-standing fascination with orphaned words. It all started with some afternoon acid and some people watching. It’s surprising easy to tell the difference between people who are nonchalant and those who are chalant.
- Robots for Romantic Old Maids (1928) – The future of robotic gigolos as 1928 saw it.
- wheres-my-magazine-or-wheres-my-refund. – Just in case print magazines weren’t having enough trouble, now subscribing to them seems like playing an expensive lottery where you can only win what you already paid for.
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (bad science fiction), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap. He's a bit of a dick.
