Oddities

Mocking someone's newbie errors in a hobby you both share isn't the way to a woman's heart? Sorry, publicly mocking etc.

An unproductive thought

What would John W. Campbell, Jr. have made of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya"?

[also, I haven't got to this bit yet but when the girls play guitar, did the animation company go to the bother of animating realistic finger placement for chords?]

From fengi

Just how confused do you think viewers would be

If HBO did an adaption of this playful little exercise in whimsy by Poul Anderson? Without bothering to explicitly explain that in this universe, everything Shakespeare wrote was historical fact, I mean.

Haikasoru Reviews 12: The Ouroboros Wave by Jyouji Hayashi

What is Haikasoru?
Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.

With a small, elite list of award-winners, classics, and new work by the hottest young writers, Haikasoru is the first imprint dedicated to bringing Japanese science fiction to America and beyond. Featuring the action of anime and the thoughtfulness of the best speculative fiction, Haikasoru aims to truly be the “high castle” of science fiction and fantasy.

Added note: these are not manga but novels.


The Ouroboros Wave
Jyouji Hayashi (Trans. Jim Hubbert)
Haikasoru/VIZ Media LLC
267 pages
SRP: $14.99 USA/$19.99 CAN/£9.99
ISBN: 978-1-4215-3645-3



Sadly, hard SF but not quite my thing. I don't if the issue is the original or the translation.
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Relevent to my interests

Nicked from yhlee:

If you want to see what Earth looks like from space, become an astronaut (or, barring that, a space tourist). For the next best view, pay a visit to Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation where a massive, nearly 20-foot spherical OLED orb--the world’s first large scale spherical OLED--offers a satellite’s-eye view of the planet in super high resolution.

“Geo-Cosmos” is made up of 10,362 OLED panels that display continuously-updating satellite footage of our tiny blue marble, representing what our planet looks like from space in something close to realtime. It replaces an earlier model covered in LED panels, offering museum-goers a full 10 million pixels, a resolution 10 times greater than its predecessor.