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Coffee with one sugar and milk, tea with milk but no sugar. Regularly. Coffee AND tea in the morning, coffee at lunch, 2 cups of tea at night. I prefer Dilmah to Twinings.
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I would give up my left arm for a cyborg limb, and JESUS CRAP the attachments would be terrifying. I'd have a lighter in my thumb and a lock-drill in my index finger and little razors under all my fingernails ala Molly Millions. In my palm would be a gas-powered magnetic grappling hook, and my bicep would contain a miniature oven that produces a single double-choc cupcake every hour.
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I have many plans, but most of them rely on getting lucky. For example:
In five years time, I'm gonna be married. I'd like to have published a book. I'd like to have a regular job working in Industrial Design, or perhaps design consultancy, or even design writing. I'd like to be halfway to owning a house.
In ten years, I want to be living by St Kilda beach. I'd like a fat little baby. I'd like to be writing full-time, so I can spend days at home with my wonderful woman. I'd like enough savings that I'm earning a significant proportion of my income from the interest. Also, two cats.
But many of those things are really dependent on meeting the right person, sending the right letter, bumping heads with the right agents. Also, the baby part relies on my woman doing a complete 180 as regards spawnlings. -
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The only comics I keep up with at the moment are DMZ (which is so awesome), The Walking Dead (which had a short lame spell and has returned to being awesome) and Scott Pilgrim (which is awesome once every two years, but totally worth the wait).
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Only that, as much as I enjoyed Avatar, there's simply no reason for it to be placed in the same category of quality as The Hurt Locker. That's a goddamn travesty.
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I can only play instrumental pieces while I'm writing. Anything with lyrics becomes really distracting, and I find my output dropping to almost nothing. That being said, there's a LOT of great instrumental stuff I've used for inspiration, usually dependent on the genre. For example, Koh Ohtani's soundtrack to Shadow of the Colossus is one of the most beautiful orchestral works I know, and is perfect for putting me into a grand fantasy mindset. I also listened to a lot of instrumental Nine Inch Nails and Juno Reactor while writing Alpha Slip - I think the faster pace actually helped with keeping my writing style hard and clipped. I don't go so far as to find a sad song for a boohoo scene, but I have used slow songs to help me pace more lanquid scenes (BT's 'This Binary Universe' album is fantastic for that purpose).
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Iriah will kill me for this, but I'm gonna have to say the Shadow&Claw, Sword&Citadel Quadriology by Gene Wolfe. It was dense and confusing badly paced and totally unapologetic, but there were so many layers of narrative and so many clever ideas that the series would stand up to three or four re-readings with every time through still being full of surprises.
For something a bit less confusing, I'd say Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. A decade ahead of its time, full of exciting characters in a real dystopian suburbia. Plus, a pizza-delivering samurai. -
Considering some of the bullshit the scheme has already foisted upon us (pro-abortion sites being blacklisted, the banning of niche pornography such as, gasp, FEMALE EJACULATION, THINK OF THE CHILDREN) - I can envision a time in the future when the blacklist combines with sedition laws and allows the party in power to actively censor microblogging sites promoting opposition policies, or political rallies. Don't be surprised at all when your bookmarks disappear without warning.
God forbid Tony Abbot gets into power. The only porn you'll be able to look at will involve a man and a woman doing it missionary under the sheets because they really need to have a baby, right now. The porno will end with a frank discussion of family values. -
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My name is Christopher Ruz. My quest is to be radically awesome, all the time. My favourite colour is beige.
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I have an occasional diary where I write an update about life and such about every 12-18 months. It used to be a lot less occasional, but I got really lazy, really fast. I also have four or five little notebooks and moleskines that I use for writing, story planning and such when I'm on the train or stuck in queues. There's a lot of words packed into that stack of notebooks that I've never typed up or applied to anything... Might be time to go back and see what I can do with all those snippets.
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I don't think we're going to see many incredible advancements within 50 years. 100 years ago we were using rifles and we still are now because bullets are cheap and go through pretty much anything. We'll almost certainly begin using some sort of variable strength projectile - such as, a base substance that can be dialled in velocity or hardness between lethal or non-lethal - but the guns will still be held in two hands and shoot bullets.
The real change will be in defensive and supplementary systems. Human soldiers are required to hold territory, so I think we'll see the powered exoskeleton become standard issue equipment along with autonomous supply carriers (ala Bigdog), and infantry equipped with Joint-Strike-Fighter-esque helmets with strategic overlays. Essentially, the issues of fog-of-war and supply deployment should be alleviated, and as much effort will go into jamming those systems as does IEDs now.
So! Ground troops supported by anthromorphic supply dogs, with a network of information laid out courtesy of UAVs allowing them to see each other through walls and resupply on the run... but, in the end, the killing will be done with automatic rifles firing pieces of metal.
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Just finished The Yiddish Policeman's Union, which was both lovely and very very Jewish.
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Writer, designer, traceur.
