Comments on: How the Future Isn’t http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-394 Justine Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:09:44 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-394 Spoken like someone who's a) never been to a science fiction convention and been compelled to eat the vilest "food" known to humanity, or b) does not have blood sugar issues. Even with a pill or patch bad food will persist. There are too many people out there who genuinely enjoy "food" I hold to be an abomination. Twinkies, anyone? Spoken like someone who’s a) never been to a science fiction convention and been compelled to eat the vilest “food” known to humanity, or b) does not have blood sugar issues.

Even with a pill or patch bad food will persist. There are too many people out there who genuinely enjoy “food” I hold to be an abomination. Twinkies, anyone?

]]> By: parker http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-392 parker Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:14:19 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-392 after much soul searching i find i can not concede but i am ready to agree to disagree: one must be willing to make sacrifices for those things truly worth having - if food were only ever good,we may not appreciate it and a simple pleasure would be lost - a pill or a patch to eliminate world starvation, I would welcome but i am unwilling to waste a future wish on a pill to allieviate temporary hunger. i can not bring myself to address the other matter after much soul searching i find i can not concede but i am ready to agree to disagree: one must be willing to make sacrifices for those things truly worth having – if food were only ever good,we may not appreciate it and a simple pleasure would be lost – a pill or a patch to eliminate world starvation, I would welcome but i am unwilling to waste a future wish on a pill to allieviate temporary hunger.

i can not bring myself to address the other matter

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Justine Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:58:05 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-375 Sorry to drop in your esteem, Parker, but I still want both. Travelling as much as I do, carting along hugely heavy books is a right royal pain. Don't get me wrong I love muchly the books, the smell, the feel, the humble book is a fabulous design job, but lord do they weigh a tonne! As for the food thing---not changing my mind there either. Just imagine you're in the middle of nowhere, starving, your only food options are foul or non-existent, you pop a pill or patch until you get closer to fabulous food. I imagine it would be particulary handy at a convention or on a road trip in the USA. An Oz reporter friend of mine covered the last US election in Kerry's bus, she'd just come from covering Iraq and swears the food was a gazillion times better in Iraq than the US. Like her, my needs are simple I want never to eat bad food again. Sorry to drop in your esteem, Parker, but I still want both. Travelling as much as I do, carting along hugely heavy books is a right royal pain. Don’t get me wrong I love muchly the books, the smell, the feel, the humble book is a fabulous design job, but lord do they weigh a tonne!

As for the food thing—not changing my mind there either. Just imagine you’re in the middle of nowhere, starving, your only food options are foul or non-existent, you pop a pill or patch until you get closer to fabulous food. I imagine it would be particulary handy at a convention or on a road trip in the USA. An Oz reporter friend of mine covered the last US election in Kerry’s bus, she’d just come from covering Iraq and swears the food was a gazillion times better in Iraq than the US. Like her, my needs are simple I want never to eat bad food again.

]]> By: parker http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-374 parker Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:00:28 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-374 here's the thing i stumbled across your blog by fortunate happenstance and was delighted to discover you love and write about some of my favourite things: books & writing; sport; new york; australia; the macquarie dictionary now it is hardly a wonderous thing to find an australin who loves sport. i imagine finding a sports-crazy new yorker is also a fairly easy exercise. but a bookish sporty australian new yorker who defers to the macquarie dictionary? - hurrah! i was immediately enchanted. and then i discovered your musings and perhaps i fell a little bit in love. so i sat quietly and watch and waited - hoping to catch just the right moment to submit a comment. i thought about commenting on the cricket and the new one day rules. i wondered if you would be the person to ask about the jersey system in the tour de france - how does the points system work for the green jersey? the polka dot jersey? is there another? what are the rules? but it didn't feel right. so i waited. and the i read your future wish - for food in patch or tablet form and books in electronic form that are easy to read and don't suck i don't understand. how could you wish for such things? my shimmery ball of affection has broken and melted into a big puddle at my feet... alas here’s the thing
i stumbled across your blog by fortunate happenstance and was delighted to discover you love and write about some of my favourite things: books & writing; sport; new york; australia; the macquarie dictionary
now it is hardly a wonderous thing to find an australin who loves sport. i imagine finding a sports-crazy new yorker is also a fairly easy exercise. but a bookish sporty australian new yorker who defers to the macquarie dictionary? – hurrah! i was immediately enchanted. and then i discovered your musings and perhaps i fell a little bit in love.
so i sat quietly and watch and waited – hoping to catch just the right moment to submit a comment. i thought about commenting on the cricket and the new one day rules. i wondered if you would be the person to ask about the jersey system in the tour de france – how does the points system work for the green jersey? the polka dot jersey? is there another? what are the rules? but it didn’t feel right. so i waited.

and the i read your future wish – for food in patch or tablet form and books in electronic form that are easy to read and don’t suck

i don’t understand. how could you wish for such things? my shimmery ball of affection has broken and melted into a big puddle at my feet…
alas

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Justine Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:07:11 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-373 The clock thing from Harry Potter seems like a bit too much work to me, but gravbelt-wearing valkyrie justice---why didn't I think of that? The clock thing from Harry Potter seems like a bit too much work to me, but gravbelt-wearing valkyrie justice—why didn’t I think of that?

]]> By: scott http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-372 scott Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:58:36 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-372 All I want from the future is jetpacks and universal justice. Mind you, jetpacks are totally different from the jet cars that Mely decries. Jetpacks are about me flying like a bird, not driving around some car that still has all my crap on the back seat so that I have to apologize whenever anyone else gets in. Also, the term "jetpack" sounds like a loud, flame-spewing thing. I really want a "gravbelt," silent and hovering. Yes, gravbelts and universal justice. NOTE: In this context "universal justice" means all the people I hate having their asses kicked, presumably by an army of gravbelt-wearing valkyrie. Sweet, sweet, justice. All I want from the future is jetpacks and universal justice.

Mind you, jetpacks are totally different from the jet cars that Mely decries. Jetpacks are about me flying like a bird, not driving around some car that still has all my crap on the back seat so that I have to apologize whenever anyone else gets in. Also, the term “jetpack” sounds like a loud, flame-spewing thing. I really want a “gravbelt,” silent and hovering.

Yes, gravbelts and universal justice.

NOTE: In this context “universal justice” means all the people I hate having their asses kicked, presumably by an army of gravbelt-wearing valkyrie. Sweet, sweet, justice.

]]> By: Lauren http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2005/07/14/how-the-future-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Lauren Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:56:11 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=90#comment-370 I want the clock whatsamahusit from Harry Potter so I could be in two places at once. I want the clock whatsamahusit from Harry Potter so I could be in two places at once.

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