swestrup | Pushing the engines to full idle. (Reply)

So, I'm sick (Yes still. I never planned for this to be a journal of Sti's perpetual illnesses, but there you have it).

Anyway, I've been laying around a bunch and when I haven't been sleeping I've been reading. I've already finished Consider Phlebas by Ian Banks, which was good, but not as good as Excession. I'm 99 44/100% of the way through Picoverse by Robert A. Metzger which is not bad for hard SF, but has just a little too much Deus Ex Machina going on for my taste. On the other hand, if I wanted to REALLY mess up a bunch of PC's in an RPG I could take a few pages from this book. No one is who (or even which species) they think they are, and much mind fiddling happens before and during the main story.

I also managed to download Part 2 of the "Dragon Half" anime, and I had forgotten just how FUNNY it is. I'm now trying to finish downloading Part 1. If, by some strange chance, neither