I tried really hard to do this book but it beat me. It's a dnf on my list this year. The radio play is pretty good too.

We watched Pontypool when we read Snow Crash. There's a scene where Snow Crash is placed really obviously if your looking fot it and the themes mesh really nicely.

Dude had built in shades and didn't know it.

Alien is my favorite horror movie by far. I really dig Hellraiser too. I watched Pontypool recently and was surprised how good it was. And The Shining is fab.

Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.

I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that's been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I'd say it was adjacent.

"Caught on camera" like some soccer mom was in a mall parking lot with her camera out.

To be fair, any technology you don't understand can be mistaken for magic. In this case that technology is coherence.

See? This is what happens when you defund the police. Cops have to turn to prostitution to make ends meet.

(Edited defend to defund. Autocorrect and lack of coffee)

I'm in the building sciences. The biggest unanswered question we come up against almost daily is "what the fuck was the last guy thinking?". And we avoid, daily, admitting we were the last guy somewhere else.

Humans- hur hur, monkey escape but come back for peanut.

Monkey- hey I have an idea for a fun ride and a way to con the humans into giving us peanuts at the same time.

Because this isn't an act. This really is who he is. He's not showing off for the cameras, it's not calculated to get attention. He is exactly one layer deep. This is it. This is who he is. An old, fat, spoiled child that has never been told "no" in any meaningful way and has been surrounded by yesmen and sycophants his entire life. He behaves like this around cameras, he behaves like this in a one on one meeting.