I will never forget the weird, twisting, churning, roiling hand of cloud, reaching down towards me as I drove underneath. The clouds swirled so fast, and seemed so strange in that curiously quiet place inside the storm. This was Jehovah's petulant way of retorting "I do SO exist!" Next ti...

We're all tickled to meet you, my dear old Insand. You'll find here that newbies are quite in demand. You're welcome to come in and join our odd band Of fans of A-e-a-la-cre-a-tra-nand', Who draws with such brilliant artistic command Tales of sapient jellies and crystalline sand And the human condit...

I was in contact a while back with a Greek lady in England who has already done a couple pieces of art based on the original book, and she might be interested in a commission if I can find a publisher. But my hunt for a publisher has got back-burnered because of a few little things ... oh, like sepa...

My avatar, as some of you may recall, is cropped from a 1927 illustration of the 1911 Modern-Greek young-adult novel Paramythi Horis Onoma ( Tale Without A Name ), by Penelope S. Delta, my English-language adaptation of which you can find here . Depicted is my favorite character from the story: &quo...

jennifer, i am very sorry for your suffering, and hope you heal quickly. everybody, i propose that, as a gesture of empathy, we all post to this forum using only our right hands to type (as i'm doing now) until jennifer gets well enough to use both her hands again. huh? ... what's that? ... oh, righ...

SPAM.unicornjelly.com/images/smilies/CURSOR.png U N D :? :? :? U N D I've replaced the center of the word with three smileys. Can you work out what the original word was? UND ERF UND SPAM.unicornjelly.com/images/smilies/CURSOR.png You are a gardener. You have been instructed to plant a display made...

Jumping into this discussion late... Evolution is contingent. Contingent on your history. It can't produce something out of nothing, it can only work with what your ancestors brought to the table. Evolution is not necessarily about "perfect" or "efficient" design -- that would be...

** Poling his twin felucca hulls up river **

Say, when you were born,
Did they name you Nemesis?
No thwarting today...

** Gives a salute and quietly prods his boats onward **

Arrgh, me, a sailor, to hae missed me toid that day! And now nae e'en a nipperkin of Nelson's folly to be had, from bowsprit to sternpost? Arrgh, measure me fer yer chains and hoist me in the gibbet cage!

Wow, I wander off for a couple weeks and all this stuff hits the fan! Hey, recuperate, all of you, okay?

And the arrows are ... what would call 'em ... demon sperm?

Sorry folks. It's only the Y chromosome that caused me to notice. The trait for it is right on there, just a little way down from the Monty-Python-memorization gene.

Turning food crops into biofuels is a stupid idea. Generally food crops are rather high-maintenance life-forms. To produce adequate yields, they tend to require a lot of coddling, in the form of energy-intensive cultivation, fertilizers, and pesticides. Arable land for growing food is in limited sup...

Thanks, draque! Hope you enjoy it.

I can't speak about suicide or suicidal thinking, because that's outside my experience. But I can corroborate one aspect of your account: Seven years old seems to be a time when a child's mind achieves a certain level of development in which rather deep existential thoughts are possible, and it seem...

RaharuAharu wrote:...still killing each OTHER over a book written over 2000 years ago...

Actually that particular book was about 1400 years ago, but good point anyway.

I'm betting the people in this coloring book are the ghosts of the original protagonists, rescued out of space-time by the Min-Yan, and set up in a virtual world where they've reconciled their prior conflicts and are enjoying a pleasant Ascended Afterlife together.

Which is the greatest occupational hazard for wrist healers, carpal tunnel syndrome or ... blindness?

Its funny how the tendency to override sensible reasoning with superstitious fear keeps rearing its ugly head, even in the most unlikely of places. The fears most people these days have concerning nuclear power come from an entirely justified distrust... You do have a point, but I sincerely doubt t...

Welcome (back), Cyberskull!

Wow, a real member this time. Not a whiff of pressed pork shoulder or ham. What a breath of fresh air!

I also thought of something along the lines of "Givenup." Well, I've been toying with possibilities like "the Pessimistics", or "Resignatia"/"the Resignatians", even "the Predeterminati", or "the Preordinati". But ultimately I keep going b...