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Yes. I used to be a wee nipper that'd lay in the bath looking up at our bathroom ceiling tiles. These small while Styrofoam geometric shapes in a mosaic. I used to see giant three dimensional scorpions and crazy shit like that.
This would be when I was about ten.
The wallpaper in the bathroom at the time was a green marbled effect that I used to be able to see elaborate characatures of eighteenth century aristocrats.
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No, not enough meat.
Unless you count lamb as being a baby sheep. Then I've eaten loads. Mmmm lamb is the best.
But in principle I oppose cannibalism on the basis that people apparently taste like pork and I'm not a fan of the flesh of swine. -
Depends. Right now I'm a bit annoyed with the world so I'd have to go with embrace evil and blow up a few coral reefs for the hell of it.
That's right I said hell of it.
If I was in a more benevolent mood* I'd totally try the vegetarian menu.
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Nothing. I don't even know what one is.
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It's all about clementines. My lust for clementines is obscene.
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Yes, but like freshly cut young ginger direct from the stem. Not like terrible powered ginger from a packet.
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I don't think we have more or less arrived at The Future; so I don't know. Maybe this is because I'm a bit of a die hard fan of the genre but I simply don't think that science fiction is ever going to stop being relevant.
An example of this can be seen if we look at the works of H.G. Wells which predicted aerial combat, nuclear weapons and tanks. When these parts of the future arrived science fiction didn't go away. It just looked at other parts of the human condition. Less Scientific Romance and more Space Opera.
And I'm not trying to suggest that the purpose of science fiction is to be predictive of The Future. Because "The War of the Worlds" is an anti-imperialist invasion story written in a time when it was a common plot device to have The Germans invade England.
The fact that when NASA sent 32 people to the Earth's Moon science fiction didn't blink too much. It just started to address different concerns. Moving from outer-space towards inner-space.
This thing called The Future isn't a fixed point in time that we will pass. Even if I joke that for me 2005 was The Future and really 2010 should be dated as "The Future + 5." The human situation can only get better. It can also get worse locally, but if you'll allow me some optimism I'm going to suggest that the state of mankind is better now than it was fifty, one hundred or one thousand years ago.
Countless people have said that, "Science Fiction is always about the present." So many people that I don't know who original said this. But the point still stands. Science Fiction, at its best, is always a mirror held up to the present. "War of the Worlds" like I said is about the rise of German militarism. "Starship Troopers" is a very gung-ho retelling of the Pacific campaign in World War 2. "The Forever War" is explicitly about the Vietnam war. "Neuromancer" is about the world seen from the early 1980s. A world of mega-corporations, brand named goods, urban sprawl and globalisation.
What will science fiction be like in the future? Don't know. Can't tell you right now. I'll tell you when I reach the future and am writing it.
If you want to take now as our nominal future I'm thinking about and want to tackle issues like: unemployment, recession, religious and ideological extremism on all sides, anthropogenic climate change, the failure of the science community to communicate clearly, maximum information availability, networked culture and my own shitty life.
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No. But I have got it caught in rope before while top roping. And it can be a pain in the while really pushing myself physically into exhaustion.
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I don't know. I know I thought about answering an email André sent me, and have been meaning to respond to for a few days, but then got distracted by footage of a cave of crystals deep in a Mexican mine.
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No. I'm terrible.
Although I've not danced for a few years. I might have gotten better. -
I'd rather get up early. I fail at this constantly. Probably due to badly learned habits in my teenage years. I'd rather get up early, even if this means going to bed early, because then I would actually do something with my day.
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Will Ellwood’s Bio
Climbing writing ginger sleeping person.
