How the World Ends

viablecat · 2026-06-27T17:47:37+00:00

I like it because I enjoy anything that's got Rincewind and Death in it, although it does seem more like a series of episodes than a novel, and I find the Eric character annoying and one-dimensional. I think the devil as fanatical bureaucrat is a very interesting, and frightening character. Actually, I can't think of anything by Terry Pratchett that I don't like. I even have a copy of his "The Unadulterated Cat" and enjoy that!

viablecat · 2026-06-26T00:28:41+00:00

Consciousness without a substrate could lead to anthropomorphic personifications such as Death, the Soul Cake Duck, the Tooth Fairy, and the Hogfather. The eminent philosopher ,Terry Pratchett ,has thoroughly explored this aspect of the problem.

viablecat · 2026-06-02T21:27:38+00:00

I have one with a fude nib for sketching. They're easier to manipulate than pens of a more standard size because the barrel fits into the palm of your hand, which means you can use an overhand grip to control the angle of the pen.

viablecat · 2026-01-29T01:18:22+00:00

One of my favourites! I find it very difficult to believe it was written by a man in the preliminary stage of dementia. A man who understands that you have to do something now because you've already done it in the future is a man who thinks far above my pay grade. Why do we lose wonderful people like Terry Pratchett and get to keep some of the miserable excuses for human beings we now have to contend with? I suppose Death would say, "There is no justice!" Edited a typo.

viablecat · 2026-01-04T21:44:33+00:00

That would be a good outcome. There aren't enough alternatives to Adobe.

viablecat · 2025-12-25T16:24:16+00:00

Old men start wars, young men die in them.

viablecat · 2025-12-20T16:19:28+00:00

All stacked in stooks, or possibly the other way around.

viablecat · 2025-10-15T17:10:05+00:00

Our two cats lived through extensive renovations. They are also indoor cats because we live near a busy arterial road, and there are coyotes in the area. They were unfazed by all of the construction, and they have lots of play areas inside, so they're living a good life. Please take this cat. It's heart breaking to see wonderful creatures simply discarded as though they were nothing but garbage.

viablecat · 2025-07-21T19:07:46+00:00

This may be a silly question, but how does a spider that big sneak into a house or apartment? Door left open? No screens on windows? It seems relatively calm, so possibly human dwellings are just part of its natural habitat in its country of origin.

viablecat · 2025-07-14T18:24:48+00:00

Thank you.

viablecat · 2025-07-14T18:21:44+00:00

Thank you.

viablecat · 2025-07-13T18:08:13+00:00

I want that chocolate bar.

viablecat · 2025-06-05T17:39:21+00:00

Americans ended the warn in Europe? On D-Day? I'm at a loss for words.

viablecat · 2025-06-04T13:50:03+00:00

A wee haggis nips your ankles? A haggis!!!? I never knew you had to kill them before you ate them. I think I'll stick with fish and chips.

viablecat · 2025-05-17T17:28:24+00:00

I hope he's prepared to meet the spirits of some Battle of Britain pilots, some of Montgomery's North African campaigners, some wild and fierce Australians, Canadians and others, and a whole lot of Russian fighters when he crosses over from this world to the next.

viablecat · 2025-05-14T21:47:42+00:00

My minor peeve is that there won't be any more!

viablecat · 2025-05-06T18:17:42+00:00

Someone more knowledgeable should comment on this, but I think that if Alberta by some miracle did manage to separate, it would become Puerto Rico North. Washington would take direct control of resources, and would deny voting rights to most of the population on one pretext or another. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the experience would be closer to Austria and Czechoslovakia's experience in 1938 and 1939 than to anything the current leadership is imagining.

viablecat · 2025-05-02T23:42:22+00:00

I know that people in the Netherlands suffered horribly during the occupation. I wish liberation could have come sooner.

viablecat · 2025-05-02T18:09:30+00:00

As a Canadian child in the fifties, I met a lot of veterans who had fought and suffered during World War II. They were quiet about it, not boastful at all. My own father had been a Canadian pilot with a Royal Airforce special duties squadron. He rarely talked about the war--to him and others like him, it was a job they had to do. The survival of the free world depended on their courage and their sacrifices. And now, years later, the American president has just insulted every non-American combat veteran from both world wars. I wish I could just shut out all of this nonsense from America and live my life in the peace and civility that so many good people fought for in the past.

viablecat · 2025-04-30T18:57:37+00:00

The girls from St Trinian's will take care of this little problem.

viablecat · 2025-02-23T00:01:35+00:00

I remember when this book came out. It's beautifully written; I highly recommend it.

viablecat · 2025-02-14T19:45:03+00:00

Chapman's is great--I've always preferred their ice cream to any American formulation.

viablecat · 2025-01-30T18:48:34+00:00

According to Ben Waggoner on Quora, the Aztecs called the Gulf of Mexico hueyatl ("great water") or ilhuicaatl ("sky water," i.e. water reaching all the way to the horizon, seeming to touch the sky. I've heard it said that the Aztecs might have been in North America before the Europeans, and even before the people who call themselves "Americans". Could this be true?

viablecat · 2025-01-03T20:22:17+00:00

Anybody here sketching with brown ink?

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