39 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. Her novel The Lathe of Heaven was adapted by PBS as a TV movie nearly 40 years ago. I thought it was pretty good. However, about 2 decades later, A & E re-made it, but the production was limp and disappointing.

  4. I took a sci fi lit course in college as an elective because there was nothing else worth taking. It turned out to be really interesting, and she was one of the authors we read.

  5. AGW RIP.
    We’re # two (2).
    “*and having a pleasant climate” (wnet)
    …-
    “*Canada ranked second-best country in the world” (wnet)
    …-
    “Freezing rain cancels buses, 20+cm of snow piles up”
    “Ice pellets and freezing rain may also mix in with the snow, which may reduce snowfall accumulations in some areas, though no warnings were in effect for northern Ontario Tuesday night as the snow continues to clear.
    VIDEO: Black ice threat as temperatures plunge behind the system”
    https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/rain-freezing-rain-southern-ontario-snow-toronto-gta-niagara-southwest-ottawa/94045/

  8. Speculative Fiction, yes. Science fiction, no. I went through a fantasy phase (reading, you pervs) in college and read a lot of her work. “A Wizard of Earthsea” and its sequels was one of the first and best “how would the world work with magic?” series I read.
    RIP

  10. “Europe’s Energy Crack-Up
    Europeans scold while the U.S. leads”
    “Drugs, human trafficking, weapons. Violent fundamentalism and Islamic terrorism.” Was this President Trump talking about Africa at his recent White House meeting with congressional leaders?
    Nope: “The problems Africa face are completely different . . . and are civilizational,” France’s President Emmanuel Macron told a reporter from the Ivory Coast at last year’s G20 summit.
    European leaders like to lecture the world on how to be virtuous, but when you look at what they do themselves, a different story emerges.”
    https://tinyurl.com/ybwnxgmv (NR)

  11. AGW RIP.
    ..-
    “Resorts in the Alps Head Towards Record Snowfall Stats” (inthesnow)
    …-
    “French Alps: 100 Chamonix chalets evacuated due to extreme snow”
    “The situation is extraordinary: we’ve had the equivalent of five months of precipitation in just 45 days,” the mayor of the Chamonix resort, Eric Fournier, told AFP, adding that such snowfall “occurs once every fifteen years”.”
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20180122/french-alps-100-chamonix-chalets-evacuated-due-to-extreme-snow

  12. “how would the world work with magic?”
    The more interesting science fiction is usually premised around a ‘big idea’.
    Arthur C Clarke was good at that.
    In ‘2001’ a man is reborn as God unlike God incarnate of man; blasphemous but interesting idea.

  13. AGW Kills.
    Gorebull melts into nothingness.
    ““Gore’s dismal sequel did the impossible, it made Hollywood turn a blind eye to climate change issue!””
    …-
    “Gore snubbed by Hollywood as ‘climate turkey sequel’ misses out on Oscar nod”
    “An inconvenient truth: Hollywood snubs Al Gore as he misses out on Oscar nod
    Climate-change film fails to repeat success of ‘Inconvenient Truth’”
    ““Even Hollywood could not give Gore’s climate turkey sequel a mention at the Oscars,” said Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,” slated for release Feb. 26 by Regnery.
    “When a politically correct film like Gore’s is dissed, it means it was below even minimal entertainment standards,” Mr. Morano said in an email. “Gore’s dismal sequel did the impossible, it made Hollywood turn a blind eye to climate change issue!””
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/23/al-gore-snubbed-hollywood-inconvenient-sequel-miss/

  14. Well it looks like Kellie Leitch will be leaving politics. I am very sorry to hear that. My feeling is that in Canada we are singularly bad at accepting (or even listening to) alternative points of view. If someone introduces something controversial, especially anything even remotely associated with a conservative position, they are quickly shouted down. The Canadian values test that Leitch suggested eventually was not much more than an interview with immigrants seeking to come to Canada — something that previously had been routinely done. Yet she was demonized and painted as a Trumpite for even suggesting this moderate measure. The claim by leftist and the media at the time was that there really is no such thing as `Canadian values`. How pathetic! Sooner or later I think there will be a price to pay for our failure to listen to the concerns of moderate conservatives like Kellie (and really most conservatives are moderate — I cannot think of any Canadian political voices that I would consider `far-right`.) What Canadians seem to go for are Trudeau`s silly platitudes that for the most part are disconnected from reality. Some of us will miss you Kellie! If the Conservative party is behind the move to introduce competition for a number of seats, including Kellie`s, that is very disappointing.

  16. I liked 2001: A Space Odyssey from the first time I read the novel and saw the movie.
    It borrowed elements from two of Clarke’s short stories: The Sentinel, in which an extraterrestrial artifact is found on the moon, and Encounter at Dawn, which is about how a crew of a spacecraft from another star system influences the way of life of a Neolithic hunter.
    Parts of it still didn’t quite make sense to me until years after I saw the movies Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Contact.
    In the final scene of the former, Kirk says to McCoy and Spock, “we may have seen the next step in our evolution”, which nicely explains what happens to Dave Bowman (played by Keir Dullea) at the end of 2001. In the latter, Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) goes through a wormhole, much like Bowman did when he reached Jupiter (or Saturn if you follow the novel).
    I think Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke deliberately made the story cryptic for a reason. If we should ever encounter evidence of what we might regard as intelligent extraterrestrial life, we probably won’t know what it is, what to do with it, or how to communicate with it. In fact, it might be much more advanced than us, much like whoever designed the wormhole machine in Contact.

  17. Political correctness (PC) recoils from MAGA in shock and horror.
    Never to be seen-heard on Canadian msm.
    “The Ugandan was the first African leader to not openly condemn the hardline Republican’s ‘racist’ comment, which triggered unprecedented international outrage.”
    …-
    “Ugandan president LOVES Trump for being ‘frank’ over
    ‘s**thole’ controversy
    UGANDAN president Yoweri Museveni has thanked Donald Trump for talking to Africans “frankly” just days after the US president sparked a storm of criticism for describing African nations as “sh*thole countries”.”
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/909304/donald-trump-uganda-president-yoweri-museveni-s-thole-immigration

  18. Irony indeed. Everyone should view Sheila Gunn`s critique of the CJFE. It exposes the general hypocrisy of the media. An additional irony: presumably one reason for CJFE wanting Trump banned is because he is a `threat to Canadian values`– oops, their (the journalist`s) earlier story (when Lietch talked about Canadian values) is that we don`t have any values — no `mainstream`, according to the PM. Now, I guess we do, so long as the journalists and the Trudeau Liberals get to tell us what they are. What an embarrassment for the CJFE. I don`t take a lot of comfort from other journalists acknowledging their proposal was a dumb idea. They clearly are embarrassed to have someone expose the typical one-sided, self-serving, anti-Conservative perspective of the “media party.“

  20. United Nations is a lover of “neo-Nazis”? UNO is a “far-right” Aktion gruppen, verstehe?
    Stupid Liberal Justine needs to know.
    …-
    “The currency of the far-right: why neo-Nazis love bitcoin” (left-grauniad)
    …-
    “UN Embraces Bitcoin Technology For Climate Data Integrity”
    “Imagine bitcoins were carbon credits. According to Morgan Stanley, in 2018 Bitcoin verification will burn 0.6% of the global electricity supply.
    Using green energy on a similar scale, to verify the transactional integrity of green blockchains, would essentially burn all the green energy used to produce those carbon credits and more just on the carbon credit transaction verification processes.
    There is a solution. Cheap coal power stations could be used to supply electricity to people who want to verify carbon credit transactions. That way dirty coal power would be used for an environmentally acceptable purpose, cheap power would keep the costs down, and the clean energy would be available for end users rather than frittering it all away verifying carbon credit and green energy transactions.
    If you think this idea is too ridiculous to be taken seriously, I’ve just got one word to say to you. Biofuel.”
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/24/un-embraces-bitcoin-technology-for-climate-data-integrity/

  22. anyone got the inside scoop on this minimalization of the data theft?
    ‘only 100,000’ instead of ‘up to’ or ‘still a high number’. nope.
    “only” as in ‘only 1,000’.
    clever bunch those hackers; is anyone taking an inventory of the big hacks?

  24. PET POT Cemetery No-Deals Report.
    Stupid Liberal Justine ask, is it high time to junk TlumpNAFTA & Bomb Bardier?
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    “It’s High Times for Pot Deals in Canada Ahead of Legalization” (blmbg)
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    “U.S. trade commission rejects Bombardier’s request to reopen CSeries duties case to include Embraer
    The U.S. trade body has refused to reopen the case, two days before it rules on whether the massive CSeries duties are justified”
    http://business.financialpost.com/transportation/airlines/u-s-trade-commission-rejects-bombardiers-request-to-draw-brazilian-rival-into-cseries-trade-spat

  25. Bolshevik Wynnetario.
    Wynneloser say, vote Bolshevik.
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    “Campbell Soup Company announces closure of Toronto plant, 380 manufacturing jobs will be lost
    The Campbell Soup Company has announced it will be closing its manufacturing facility in Toronto‘s west end, which will result in approximately 380 job losses.”
    “… Canadian soup and broth production will be moved to the company’s plants in North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.”
    https://globalnews.ca/news/3985071/campbells-soup-toronto-plant-closure/

  26. J. Wellington Wimpy @ Davos: ” I’ll gladly repay you Tuesday for a hamburger and a Davos snowboard today”.
    …-
    “As the rich move into Davos, the cost of a hamburger platter hits $75” (vid)
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    “Irony Alert: A Thousand Private Jets Deliver Globalist Elite to Davos for Climate Change Summit”
    “More than 1,000 private jet flights have been delivering globalist elites to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, where attendees are discussing — among other topics — the ‘major threat’ of climate change.
    Airports around the Swiss ski resort will see the number of private jets spike 335 per cent during the annual meeting of world elites, according to Air Charter Service (ACS).”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/24/private-jets-davos-climate-change/

  29. The dairy farmers are whining over the TPP? Too bad.
    They have held the country at ransom for decades. Their policies hurt all Canadians – the poor the most. Get rid of their privilege.
    Every trade agreement goes after Canada’s dairy industry for a reason. Protectionism. It’s only a matter of time.

  30. …-
    “Terry Glavin: As the world burns and democracy dies, our ‘leaders’ party in Davos
    As the festivities proceeded, Turkish tanks and troop carriers were rumbling across the Syrian border into the Kurdish enclave of Afrin” (NP)
    …-
    “The Tragedy of Liberalism”
    “… “progressive” liberalism longs for a liberalism not yet achieved, one that strives to transcend the limitations of the past and even envisions a transformed humanity, its consciousness enlarged, practicing what Edward Bellamy called “the religion of solidarity.””
    http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Fall_Deneen.php

  31. “The Tragedy of Liberalism”
    “While classical liberalism looks back to a liberalism achieved and lost—particularly the founding philosophy of America that stressed natural rights, limited government, and a relatively free and open market,
    “progressive” liberalism longs for a liberalism not yet achieved, one that strives to transcend the limitations of the past and even envisions a transformed humanity, its consciousness enlarged, practicing what Edward Bellamy called “the religion of solidarity.””
    http://iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2017_Fall_Deneen.php

  32. “The Tragedy of Liberalism”
    “While classical liberalism looks back to a liberalism achieved and lost—particularly the founding philosophy of America that stressed natural rights, limited government, and a relatively free and open market,
    “progressive” liberalism longs for a liberalism not yet achieved, one that strives to transcend the limitations of the past and even envisions a transformed humanity, its consciousness enlarged, practicing what Edward Bellamy called “the religion of solidarity.””
    https://tinyurl.com/yb8642x8 (hedgehogreview)

  33. President Sh*tForBRains will make MERICA GR8 Again with more expensive/crappy washing machines.
    http://www.weny.com/story/37342052/lg-is-raising-washing-machine-prices-due-to-new-trump-tariff
    And by devaluing the dollar, which will devastate the economy. We’ve seen this movie before; Bush did it and it crippled investment and growth all around the world because you can’t have serious growth without stable currency. Trump’s deregulations are mere bandaids compared to the damage this will inflict.
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/white-house-seen-declaring-open-season-on-dollar-at-davos
    The USD is being pummeled. Dump your greenbacks, get in gold and cryptocurrency.

  35. It’s Trump’s fault, eh?
    …-
    “Trump’s new tariff could hurt California’s effort to go solar” (sacbee)
    …-
    “California’s High-Speed Rail Project in Existential Crisis as Construction Costs Balloon”
    “It has left the broader high-speed rail project, a lofty objective that Gov. Jerry Brown has pursued since the 1980s, in an existential crisis.”
    http://ktla.com/2018/01/21/californias-high-speed-rail-project-in-existential-crisis-as-construction-costs-balloon/

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