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Everything Else / Re: Weird and Strange Habits
« on: January 11, 2006, 08:43:59 PM »
How long do you sleep when you do?
A lot of people describe Scalzi’s Old Man's War novels as military science fiction, but I would classify its sequel Zoë’s Tale as a space opera. It’s a story about, well, Zoë, a teenage girl whose parents are invited to take leadership roles in building a colony on a new planet. Zoë is an enthusiastic member of the group sent to colonize Roanoke, despite the risks—and the risks are considerable even before the political machinations of greater powers boil to the surface. Continue reading Zoë’s Tale
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I was about ready to pull out my international time zone chart, think about leap year, and the 'leap second' that just took palce, and figure out what was going on.
Thanks, e, for saving me all that work.
Yes, we should definitely fix that because the results of the polls are so freaking important. I mean, what would happen to the world if we let people mess with the poll results?
I am of the opinion that any wholesale change to our rating system would ideally involve dropping numbers altogether and substituting adjectives: Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent, Perfect, etc. (though of course we'd have more than that). That would make it obvious what we mean, without the need to quantify artistic expression.