Huh… I was just about to start writing on my Slashdot backup blog when I noticed the IMBC site was working. See, I was having some kind of DNS trouble that kept me from accessing my site directly. I could get to it through a proxy just fine, but I don’t trust the free ones enough to login to things through them. I blame Time Warner. Anyway, it seems to be resolved now.

I’ve been reading Accelerando. It’s pretty dense, like David Marusek’s Counting Heads. But this one focusses more on current world IT/digital rights issues than the bleeding-edge traditionally current (does that make sense?) sci fi trope (in-your-face transhumanism, nanotech, etc.). The layers of internet culture references are almost overwhelming. There’s a lot of economics stuff in there too… Some of it I don’t really grok — he keeps talking about eliminating the “economics of scarcity” in the near term before people are getting uploaded (i.e., when it would actually become possible). As long as resources are finite and humans have desires, there will be scarcity, right?

It turns out I already read the first chapter of this book (”Lobsters”) in one of the Year’s Best Science Fiction collections. I was a little annoyed at having to re-read it; I remembered it well enough that there weren’t any great surprises, but not well enough that I could skip it and still be able to fully appreciate the subsequent material.

Hrmm. What else? I made burritos for dinner last night. They woulda been better with chicken in ‘em, but I was too impatient to defrost anything. Still, they were okay. Bacon, rice, white beans, sour cream, etc.

I ordered some more TPBs off Amazon. Arriving in approximately 12 days: Powers: The Definitive Hardcover Collection, vol. 1 (456 pages!), 100 Bullets Vol. 1: First Shot, The Authority Vol. 1: Relentless, and a Hot Fuzz widescreen DVD. Originally, I only planned to buy the DVD. But their “free shipping on orders over $25″ thing got me. Really clever marketing tactic, that. Can you imagine how bad it’d be if I had Prime?

And so concludes IMBC ‘07 entry #123. Yet another testament to my ability to ramble on for three hundred words nightly.

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