I had completely forgotten about filling in the form on the NASA site for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, but lo and behold there I am!
Myself and over 430,000 other names have been inscribed on a CD attached to the spacecraft, which is currently approaching Jupiter for a gravity assisted slingshot to the outer reaches of our Solar System. We’re due to arrive around July 2016.
Wow, this is great news.
Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV.
So lets see, we have the Sci-Fi channel who continue to keep me on the edge of my seat with Battlestar Galactica, George Clooney whose recent output behind the camera has been enthralling (Good Night, and Good Luck, Syriana), working with Neal Stephenson on an adaption of one of his books (which also happens to be one of my favourites) …
… pleasedon’tfuckitup pleasedon’tfuckitup!
Hat tip: Boingboing
Hmmmmmm… good idea this is, join in I will.… yeeesss…
(thog is one of our new machines)
Andrew: hrm, /etc/init.d/networking restart killed thog??? garrettc: glitch in the config maybe, so the network didn't come back up? Andrew: nope didn't :(( Andrew: wonder if a reboot will do it, if not we'll need hands on (:| garrettc: how can you reboot if it's not on the network? Andrew: we can request one garrettc: that's true garrettc: it's going to be the only course of action garrettc: unless you've got that telepathy/ip plugin working? garrettc: or would that be tcp/telepathy? *:) Andrew: toip :D garrettc: heh