Ruminations on the edge...

I hate these ads: "Your Computer is Currently Broadcasting An Internet IP Address. With this Address, Someone Can Immediately Begin Attacking Your Computer!"

Duh. Your computer needs to broadcast that address for you to be on the Internet, y'morons who are scaring people for no good reason. :P

*sigh* anyway. I feel helpless at the moment. I've got a friend who's going through some rough times, and I'll be damned if I know what I can do to help him/her. The person's had a rough few months, and if I didn't know any better, I'd think I just wasn't wanted no more. And I know that's not true, but it's hard to keep that in mind. Especially when the person seems to be slipping out of my grasp, and making vague motions towards that bugaboo suicide. And I just don't know what to do.

I swear, if that punk Universe is going to make any more trouble in mine or my friends lives, I'm going to hunt him down and kick him in the teeth until he gets the fucking point.

*sigh* Yeah, that's it.

o/~ Letting the days go by/ let the water hold me down/ Letting the days go by/ water flowing underground/ into the blue again/ after the money's gone/ once in a lifetime/ water flowing underground o/~

Same as it ever was, indeed. :P

Here's a kickass meme.

again, stolen from Kevin Fox

The Science Fiction Book Club has come out with their list of The 50 Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002.

We'll contine like Kevin did, and mark them this way: books I've read and books I started:

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
   
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
    
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
    
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
    
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
    
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
    
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
    
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
    
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
    
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

I think I need to do more reading.