Random Raves ΜΔ: Crate Expectations

[Ajidica]

Which compilation? (honestly, there are several)

If you have The Shield of Time, maybe you can explain to me what the soldier in Afghanistan story (that brackets the rest of the material) has to do with the other stories (Beringia and the Renaissance Italy ones). That's something I've never really figured out even though I must have read this book a dozen times.

The one I got was "Annals of the Time Patrol", so unfortunately I can't explain what the Afghanistan story has to do with the rest!

As the Cheezburger cats say: WANT!

Will you please ask her where she got that (I assume it's available online)?

I want that T-shirt too.

My sister got it from here:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/dune+t-shirts
The have a whole bunch of designs - some interesting, some not.

 

[Dachs]

I readily change my opinion about things through discussion. I don't know if it's something to take pride in, but I think that one of my redeeming qualities is that somebody else can change my mind about something through facts, argumentation, and so on. A lot of who I am right now is thanks to people talking to me and absorbing what they have to say, and I'm thankful for that. I was not even remotely the same person on CFC in 2008 as I am now.

In particular, @Farm Boy convinced me of something several years ago that I still hold to be one of the most important lessons I've ever learned. Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The one I got was "Annals of the Time Patrol", so unfortunately I can't explain what the Afghanistan story has to do with the rest!

A quick Google says:

Seven stories total, including: Time Patrol; Brave to be a King; Gibraltar Falls; The Only Game in Town; Delenda Est; Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks; and The Sorrow of Odin the Goth.

These are most of the core stories, though there are others. My collection includes these plus Star of the Sea and The Year of the Ransom (the latter introduces a new character, Wanda Tamberly).

Shield of Time has a story about a soldier in Afghanistan that brackets the stories of Wanda's field research in Beringia, and the one in which she and Manse Everard team up to solve a vexing history-gone-wrong situation in Renaissance Italy.

There are still a few other stories including Death and the Knight (which I read once and can't remember where), and there are three stories written by other SF authors as a tribute to Poul Anderson.

My sister got it from here:
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/dune+t-shirts
The have a whole bunch of designs - some interesting, some not.

I see they have other things besides t-shirts, which is intriguing.

 

[Takhisis]

I readily change my opinion about things through discussion. I don't know if it's something to take pride in, but I think that one of my redeeming qualities is that somebody else can change my mind about something through facts, argumentation, and so on. A lot of who I am right now is thanks to people talking to me and absorbing what they have to say, and I'm thankful for that. I was not even remotely the same person on CFC in 2008 as I am now.

In particular, @Farm Boy convinced me of something several years ago that I still hold to be one of the most important lessons I've ever learned. Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

Since I can say the same about myself, almost word for word, may I ask what this interaction with Farm Boy was?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Since I can say the same about myself, almost word for word, may I ask what this interaction with Farm Boy was?

He showed him how to fix tractors, obviously.

 

[Dachs]

Since I can say the same about myself, almost word for word, may I ask what this interaction with Farm Boy was?

It was about the cost of enforcing the laws.

He showed him how to fix tractors, obviously.

Ha. If only. They had plenty of more-qualified mechanics to deal with maintenance and repair. I was a laborer, so I knew enough to operate some of the tractors I had to use (usually old Farmall Ms that weren't much good for anything other than pulling wagons around; the newer Kubotas and whatnot were mostly for things they didn't need me for), but not enough to keep anything in running shape.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@Dachs It would appear that some life/work changing event has happened in your recent past that I missed.

 

[Dachs]

@Dachs It would appear that some life/work changing event has happened in your recent past that I missed.

Several years ago, I worked for a farm for about eighteen months.

 

[Phrossack]

I readily change my opinion about things through discussion. I don't know if it's something to take pride in, but I think that one of my redeeming qualities is that somebody else can change my mind about something through facts, argumentation, and so on. A lot of who I am right now is thanks to people talking to me and absorbing what they have to say, and I'm thankful for that. I was not even remotely the same person on CFC in 2008 as I am now.

In particular, @Farm Boy convinced me of something several years ago that I still hold to be one of the most important lessons I've ever learned. Thanks, man. I appreciate it.

Good to hear, since I've long believed that the human mind becomes rigid and impossible to change after adulthood except by traumatic experience.

What exactly did he say about enforcement of laws? I'm becoming of a mind now that laws (at least certain ones) aren't enforced enough, or at all.

 

[Kyriakos]

In a few days from now i will return to Thessalonike and stay for a full week.
To take a deep breath before descending again to the oceanic abyss cavern that is athens.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Several years ago, I worked for a farm for about eighteen months.

While in college, I picked cotton for a weekend. I learned my lesson about the rigors of small farmers and why slavery was important to the southern economy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I had an awesome vacation in Hawaii. I hiked to the pillbox, hiked to two waterfalls (one through a jungle), hiked to a light house, saw sea turtles on an aquacycle, saw humpback whales breaching from a lookout spot and attended a Luau. We also visited the house I lived in as a child and relived some of my earliest memories which was surreal all on its own. It was a relaxing, fun week and I didn't think about work once.

 

[Takhisis]

It was about the cost of enforcing the laws.

OK, we'll let you keep your secrets.

I had an awesome vacation in Hawaii. I hiked to the pillbox, hiked to two waterfalls (one through a jungle), hiked to a light house, saw sea turtles on an aquacycle, saw humpback whales breaching from a lookout spot and attended a Luau. We also visited the house I lived in as a child and relived some of my earliest memories which was surreal all on its own. It was a relaxing, fun week and I didn't think about work once.

Has your consumption of pork products increased during or after this sojourn? Because if so you might just have caught a case of the warpus.

 

[cardgame]

Actually, I think I vaguely remember that post.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I had an awesome vacation in Hawaii. I hiked to the pillbox, hiked to two waterfalls (one through a jungle), hiked to a light house, saw sea turtles on an aquacycle, saw humpback whales breaching from a lookout spot and attended a Luau. We also visited the house I lived in as a child and relived some of my earliest memories which was surreal all on its own. It was a relaxing, fun week and I didn't think about work once.

Sounds like a great trip. Next time go see the volcanoes on Hawaii.

Made the last post in the top 30 threads in OT at 11:34 tonight.

And to all a goodnight.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I saw a digital sign with a Blue Screen of Death on it. That was funny.

 

[choxorn]

Sounds like a great trip. Next time go see the volcanoes on Hawaii.

Made the last post in the top 30 threads in OT at 11:34 tonight.

And to all a goodnight.

They're not on the same island he went to, Oahu only has some "mountain ranges" that are the remnants of a couple of shield volcanoes that collapsed in catastrophic landslides some time in the past few hundred thousand years.

 

[Birdjaguar]

They're not on the same island he went to, Oahu only has some "mountain ranges" that are the remnants of a couple of shield volcanoes that collapsed in catastrophic landslides some time in the past few hundred thousand years.

That's why on subsequent trips you visit the other islands. I know my island geography pretty well which is why I said to "go visit the volcanoes on Hawaii." The big island duplicates the state name.

But you know that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

When we did our initial planning, the active lava fields were closed to all visitors due to the fierceness of the eruptions. I never bothered looking again closer to the trip as we had plenty of stuff planned out.

The Arizona memorial was closed as a sailor ran into it with the ferry early in the year. You could do everything at the museum directly across from it and we took a ferry out to the site and did a 360 but the memorial itself over the wreck was closed.

@Takhisis - I definitely increased my consumption of pork significantly this week.

 

[Takhisis]

I had an awesome vacation in Hawaii. I hiked to the pillbox, hiked to two waterfalls (one through a jungle), hiked to a light house, saw sea turtles on an aquacycle, saw humpback whales breaching from a lookout spot and attended a Luau. We also visited the house I lived in as a child and relived some of my earliest memories which was surreal all on its own. It was a relaxing, fun week and I didn't think about work once.

Has your consumption of pork products increased during or after this sojourn? Because if so you might just have caught a case of the warpus.

@Takhisis - I definitely increased my consumption of pork significantly this week.

@warpus please comment and advise -I'm about to consume pork products myself within the hour but then it's me.