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framlingemSo I am no longer on the waiting list for residence at college - they have a place for me. Squee!
Unfortunately, my credit card is AWOL, so I need to mail them a cheque for the deposit. *nodnod* So I haven't told my mother yet, so she's probably still worried.
I'm currently reading a collaboration between Michael Kube-McDowell and Arthur C. Clarke, called 'Trigger', and I have to say it's one of the best reads I've had in a while. (Of course it is. It's Sir Arthur bloody Clarke, for goodness' sake!) It posits the invention of a device which, originally developed by physicists in an effort to control gravity, has the side effect of creating a buffer zone of interference. Any nitrate-based explosive (like, say, gunpowder, or land-mines) which enters that zone detonates immediately.
Think of it. Quick, easy land-mine clearing in Cambodia and Vietnam and all the places where farmers routinely get blown to bits plowing their fields. Buffer zones created around schools, homes, and on public transport where nobody could carry a gun without the ammunition exploding.
What an awesome, wonderful thing. One of the prevalent arguments for allowing people to have guns is to defend themselves from other guns. There's a character in the book who at one point tells the Senate 'my gun does not give me back what his gun takes away' - namely, security.
It's an awesome read; I can highly recommend it for readers of speculative fiction.
Unfortunately, my credit card is AWOL, so I need to mail them a cheque for the deposit. *nodnod* So I haven't told my mother yet, so she's probably still worried.
I'm currently reading a collaboration between Michael Kube-McDowell and Arthur C. Clarke, called 'Trigger', and I have to say it's one of the best reads I've had in a while. (Of course it is. It's Sir Arthur bloody Clarke, for goodness' sake!) It posits the invention of a device which, originally developed by physicists in an effort to control gravity, has the side effect of creating a buffer zone of interference. Any nitrate-based explosive (like, say, gunpowder, or land-mines) which enters that zone detonates immediately.
Think of it. Quick, easy land-mine clearing in Cambodia and Vietnam and all the places where farmers routinely get blown to bits plowing their fields. Buffer zones created around schools, homes, and on public transport where nobody could carry a gun without the ammunition exploding.
What an awesome, wonderful thing. One of the prevalent arguments for allowing people to have guns is to defend themselves from other guns. There's a character in the book who at one point tells the Senate 'my gun does not give me back what his gun takes away' - namely, security.
It's an awesome read; I can highly recommend it for readers of speculative fiction.
