Steve Stair

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• Commented on Google and TiVo team up, strike terror into the nonexistent hearts of TV execs
  On a TiVo, you can set a button to skip forward 30 seconds. Which mean you just press it 5 times, and the commercials are skipped. On my cable company DVR, I have to actually watch for the end of...
• Commented on David Moles's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
  Wow. That was amazingly good. Besides being a good writer, it was very smart of him to use your book's title, Cory. After all, how else is an "up-and-coming sf writer" going to get his story in front of so...
• Commented on Kim Stanley Robinson's alternate time-travel life of Galileo, GALILEO'S DREAM
  What, no Amazon link, Cory?...
• Commented on Slow loris: possibly cutest animal ever
  They don't hold their arms up like that because they like it, it is the first step of their defense mechanism. From http://www.kingsnake.com/toxinology/loris/slow_loris.html ...when Lorises feel that battle stations is necessary, they fold their arms into a diamond around their...
• Commented on Makers, my new novel: free downloads, donate to libraries and colleges, signings and tours
  I preferred the UK cover...just not to the tune of an extra $15 (the price differential plus shipping from Amazon UK). Very much looking forward to reading it....
• Commented on Liar: YA suspense novel that elevates the unreliable narrator to a new level
  The hardcover is $11.55, but the audiobook is $16.49? WTF?...
• Commented on Squishy bowls
  Since the review isn't up on Cool Tools yet: http://www.guyotdesigns.com/Product-Squishy-Bowls...
• Commented on Navigation system uses crowdsourcing for route guidance
  I've been using Waze for a few months now, and it has had an interesting effect on me. It keeps a running total (score) of all the different roads you've traveled on. It also tells you where you are in...
• Commented on Ask the Government Printing Office to release the US Constitution in XML
  > (along with commentary) Whose commentary? From what political viewpoint? Very bad idea....
• Commented on Zombie shooting-range targets
  You can shoot at them with automatic weapons at The Gun Store in Las Vegas....
• Commented on Brust's JHEGAALA, smart, hard-boiled swords and sorcery with great poleconomy subtext
  Cory, your point about Vlad's growth is spot on. This is one of the few series I still like as much, if not more, than when I first started reading it in high school....
• Commented on Machine translation fun
  gabrielm, I tried the "usual" version IN: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. OUT: Bush is worth, is to get the bird. Even a computer knows Bush's value!...
• Commented on Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede, one of the all-time great American comedy sf novels, will be a movie
  I think Cory was the one that turned me on to this book, in a post here a few years ago. Be interesting to see if they mess with it....
• Commented on Ink Calendar: paper that uses capillary action to fill in one day's number at a time
  How much error builds up over the course of a month? I'd be very surprised if the number 30 is actually filled in on the 30th day, instead of the 29th or the 31st....
• Commented on Backwoods Home Magazine: "Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian"
  Similarly, check out Dean Ing's "Rackham Files". Most of the book is about how the characters survive a nuclear war, and the subsequent fallout. The rest of the book gives instructions on how to actually DO the things that the...
• Commented on Rubber Room: documentary about New York teacher purgatory
  In outline, it was the same at the schools I went to. The most important thing was to stay on the premises. While there, the authorities fed you, prevented overt violence, and made some effort to teach you something. But...
• Commented on Scam artists con Apple into killing app that tells you when the bus is due in San Francisco
  It's like you're arguing over the qualities of one breed of horse while I race past in my motorcar. Stop renting your phone from Apple, and own an Android....
• Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
  Maybe people would be willing to give up eating animals if instead, we got to eat PETA members......
• Commented on Chickens killed by poisonous snake bites taken off menu
  A, B, E, F, I #1...
• Favorited Video for Jonathan Coulton's "Future Soon" -- Boing Boing Gadgets on Boing Boing
• Commented on Hugo Awards ballot is live
  I think this is the first time I can ever recall having read ALL of the Best Novel Hugo nominees BEFORE seeing the ballot. Now I don't feel rushed to read them before the voting ends....
• Commented on Stuff it would be great to have designed
  I love that aphorism you quoted, Cory. It is just a bit too long to fit on a t-shirt....
• Commented on Hugo Chávez: Eat the Rich
  Come on baby, eat the rich Put the bite on that son of a bitch -- Motorhead...
• Commented on Bloomsbury edition of Lessig's REMIX goes CC
  I'm only halfway through the copy I bought, but I had a hard time putting it down to come to work this morning....
• Commented on Frozen movie of cops vs. clowns in hospital shootout
  The implication is supposed to be that the "cop" on which the film begins, is actually a "clown" that stole a cop's uniform, then jumped out of the window on to the roof of the car. Which is why he...
• Commented on Personally, My Money's On the Narwhal
  Everyone knows unicorns are racist, anyway....
• Commented on Nifty gaming gadget administers nitrous oxide to kids
  Am I the only one that when I saw that it connected to a Game Boy, thought, "Does it give you the nitrous when you lose the game, or when you win?"...
• Commented on Man bites off tip of own penis
  The Fark headline was the best: Man bites off end of own penis. Police found him after receiving an anonymous tip...
• Commented on Simulated crime-scene bathroom accessories
  As best as I can tell, they don't actually seem to sell the products they list. They've got prices, but no way to actually buy them....
• Favorited What you should be afraid of instead of terrorists on Boing Boing