Over the horizon radar

[hirez]

My MP3 device contains too much scratty techno and not enough BoC, which is a bit careless. Neither can it manage offline scrobbling. Probably.

Anyway. While I was battling its hateful UI an unguarded part of my brain went 'The Culture would totally 0wn the Daleks' which was a shit trick.

I have no intention of going to look at the relevant (fan)fic archives.

Comments

[andrewducker]

http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na44.htm

[hirez.livejournal.com]

A UUCP naming convention? Retro. However, that story does seem to be in some small debt to Banksie.

Thank you. I think.

[oletheros.livejournal.com]

i've read this book and it really is the culture with the serial numbers filed off.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You're Not Helping.

[FX: Abebooks]

[andrewducker]

I should add that I really enjoyed it - and I don't normally read Dr Who novels :->

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Scrobbling's not so hard. Which device are you wielding ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Creative Zen 1.21.01e

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Ah. Perhaps I overstated the nothardiness there.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

BoC? Bits of Crap? Bars of Chocolate? Bums of Cheerleaders?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Boards of Canada. (See 'current music')

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Every time I listen to BoC, I think of rusty spoons (http://www.fat-pie.com/salad.htm).

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Boo. I thought Blue Oyster Cult.

[jendama.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[reddragdiva]

Thirded.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Grim old hippies the lot of you.

[spride.livejournal.com]

And there I was thinking you were misCapping Blue Öyster Cult.

[gwengothelf.livejournal.com]

Damn you... Now I'm going to spend all afternoon musing how Special Circumstances would go about first contact with the Darleks...

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

Knowing Banks, they'd build the Daleks a bunch of Orbitals and let them zap themselves back to a mediaeval state, then come along and shag the survivors.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

Heh. Rule #34 applies, then.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I think that the Daleks would be close enough to the definition of 'hegemonising swarm' that they'd root the one, upload a particularly entertaining virus and then stand back to observe the fireworks.

[gwengothelf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you have a point there...

[spride.livejournal.com]

Or: "Oy! Idirans! These lot are worse than us!"

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... And thankfully I don't know enough about yon canon to even think about attempting to write same.

[gwengothelf.livejournal.com]

...and thankfully I don;t do fanfiction. Thank god. ;D

[spride.livejournal.com]

Contact does Contact (clue's in the name, meat). SC corrects Contact's fuckups.

-- Marwhin-Skel

[tails-redux.livejournal.com]

You've just tripped the fanwankery alarm.

I shall be in the bunker waiting to hear the all clear siren.

[spride.livejournal.com]

The first rule of Special Circumstances is, you don't talk about Special Circumstances.

[fross.livejournal.com]

btw did you ever see the Dayvan Cowboy music video? It's good enough to warrant becoming a stoner for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lEsLcGB7Vo

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You can't beat random NASA footage. I particularly care for the Dryden archive of airliner crash-tests.