Serenity – Uncle Orson Reviews Everything Orson Scott Card says that Serenity is the best science fiction movie ever. How much more endorsement do you need? Despite his, uh, somewhat wacky political ideas (the Democrats are equivalent to the Nazi party? What the hell have you been smoking?), the man does know quality storytelling.
Day: October 4, 2005
Miers & Microsoft
Over on slingshot.org: Miers & Microsoft Apparently, Miers once argued — successfully — that Microsoft customers who purchased faulty products that damaged their data were not injured in any way. This was back in 1995, when MS-DOS 6.0 caused some data compression errors. Microsoft offered an upgrade, MS-DOS 6.2, for $9.95. Customers who experienced data…
Writing update
So, 769 words yesterday on The Terassic Cycle outline. It’s a lot more complex than I had really thought about at first and I’ve been spending much of this time paring down on some of the plots and themes to make everything consistent and believable. I’ve had to drop a number of the cooler ideas…