You know you did. But I didn’t forget. No siree.
Ok, well, I DID forget, but now I’ve all remembered what I forgot. And what was it that I forgot to remember and remembered to not forget to remember… then…ok, I think I confiused myself there. Anyway I remembered.
I remembered to tell the likes of you that it is not just a new year, it is also a new month. Which, of course, means it is now time once again to do your patriotic duty and vote for the IMAO Podcast on PodcastAlley.com.
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I don’t get this whole Abramoff scandal. First, it doesn’t involve shooting or explosions, so it’s boring. Second, politicians have been using their power to illegally get money since forever. George Washington had the military rob a bank to test out his executive powers, killing four. Even Judas of Iscariot, a follower of Jesus, used his position of power to get thirty pieces of silver.
So everyone just chill, yo.

** ** ** IMAO News Update ** ** **
In South Korea, a man is in critical condition after setting himself on fire in a courtroom. The disgruntled gentleman was upset over a $300 fine for disturbing the peace.
The Good news is that he was taken to the hospital almost immediately.
The Bad news is he was fined $200 for smoking in court.

I’m really liking the novel The Weapon by Michael Z. Williamson, enough so that I’m actually setting aside time to read instead of waiting for the next time I have a plane flight or something. Still, there’s one thing about it that bugs me, so I thought I’d get it out of the way before I do a full review.
Metrics! All measurements are in metrics! I’ve noticed that other people in my writing group tend to use metrics for SF, too, so I wonder if that’s the standard for modern SF. Still, I, like most Americans, have no conceptual understanding of metric measures… and I’m an engineer who actually uses metric measure from time to time. You tell me someone is five foot ten and 180 pounds, I can instantly visualize it. You tell me someone is X cm tall and Y kilograms, and, far as I know, that person could be anywhere from the size of Thumbelina to King Kong. I know a centimeter is about the width of a finger, and I have some concept of a kilogram from brick of cocaine I see on cop shows, but it’s hard to turn that into a person. And I’m not about to break out a calculator and conversion chart when reading a novel.
So, is 20 degrees Celsius hot or cold?
Never mind. If I have some readers who read lots of modern SF, is metrics the standard, and can you visualize something when given a metric measure? To me, metrics just make such horrible prose (that would be if I knew it; right now, when metric measures are mentioned, it’s like suddenly running into a section written in Swahili). It’s a scientific convention, and feet and inches and pounds work better in non-scientific reading. When I get to writing SF, only the most horrible, fascist governments will use metrics. And bad guys will get shot with a .45, not an 11mm.