Chaos Manor Bingo!

[jeriendhal]

Because I want to make fun of Jerry Pournelle now, before it's too tasteless to do so later.

The Rules: Go to the Current View column ("The Original Blog") on his Chaos Manor website and fill in a square every time you read about:

He can't get his computer/net connection to work.

Mentions his BYTE column

NASA = Welfare for Engineers

Back when the SDI program listened to him.

Global Warming: Not the human's fault!

THIS BONUS SQUARE WAS EATEN BY LOCUSTS

Takes Sable for a walk

Takes Larry Niven for a walk.

Refers to the US armed forces as "The Legions"

Other references to the USA being an empire rather than a republic

Plugs his wife's reading program.

Opera!

Teacher's Union = SMoCalifornia


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Hrm, I think I need more items to fill the squares before I can make this into a grid.

Comments

[tamhavik.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know that writer!

My dad has the Dutch version of Footfall. I loved that book! It's got some interesting aliens in it with a somewhat different way of ending wars: that take in the defeated party and completly trust them. Since for them the herd is more more important then the individual and they consider belonging to a herd more important then which herd it is. One of the aliens even accepted being "conquered" by a human because he panicked when he came to earth under the open sky after living his entire live in a spaceship. Oh, and I thought that it was very logical when the American government raided a science fiction conference to enlist the writers as specialist team. I mean, what kind of people have thought more about the possibilities of alien invasions and alien life forms in general. Makes sense.

I also read some of Larry Niven's books, I especially remember Integral trees (English title? Also one out of my dad's library) which plays on a world with very diverse gravitational fields, like in some places you can float while in others you can just jump real far and even closer to the planet it's more like earth gravitation. In the low grav places the trees would grow in the air, with very little nourishment and bend at the ends, forming a integral sign. I loved that image, though I don't remember much more about the story except that someone got pregnant...

Anyway, sorry to ramble about this ^^ I just don't often hear/ read people mention those wirters, or their books. I know them mainly through my dad. He reads a lot of science fiction, all kinds of it. And since his English isn't (wasn't) very good, he read them in Dutch. While I was in high school we got into the habit of swapping books we think the other would like to read. It started in a very quiet summer where my friends and younger sister were all out on camp I was home alone with my parents and youngest sister, who wasn't very interesting company at the time. I was bored to death untill one day I found a stack of seven thick books in front of my bedroom door as a hint. It was a series by Weiss and Hickmann (Poort des Doods / Deathgate?) and I finished it in eight days almost none stop reading.

After that I read many more of his favourites (like the Pournelle and Larry Niven) and got him to read Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis, Wild Magic quartet by Tamora Pierce and Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb and more. Since then he's reading more English books on his own as well. *grins* I also "gave" him Miracle of Science, Girl Genius and Terinu, but webcomics don't appeal much to him I'm afraid. Not because of the story, but because he gets tired reading from a computer screen for longer periods of time.