It's true, Doc. You are an especially outstanding star in a galaxy full of bright ones!
Why didn't we ban you? I guess I didn't have banning power at the time. I'm not sure I have banning power now.
You have not ever written anything for this website. It is well known that you pay a sweatshop in Southeast Asia to produce the posts with your byline, and that is why they make only a modicum more sense than on those ever-rarer occasions when you rouse your addled mind from its opium haze to abuse the language in…
That's really interesting. Thanks!
You get hay?!? #hayforall #freelancersdeservehaytoo #sayhay
I think this is his polite way of saying he's not interested in our Wanda Seldon/Bors Alurin slashfic, Alasdair.
I know you spend a fair amount of time looking at metrics — how many page views the Gawker Media blogs get, repeat visitors, demographic information. Has that stuff advanced to a point where it's at all comparable to psychohistory, where you can look at the data and predict pretty accurately what's going to happen…
What was it about the Foundation stories that struck you most when you first read them — a concept? a particular story? their scope? And what strikes you most about them now?
Well, McLuhan said electric technology both turns people inward and permits us to more easily notice patterns, because instead of multiple chains of causally connected events, the world starts to look like a field. So I blame all the self-referential stories on, as ever, the telegraph.
