Comments on: Rum, sodomy, and the lash

By: steff

steff — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:46:26 +0000

again with the elementals! i think i like them best when they’re mixed.

i can’t imagine why that is. *blink blink*

By: Che

Che — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:13:01 +0000

Maps.. mercator… er.. um.. what he said.

Hey, why didn’t ya’ll tell me that in HP, the bad guys win every single time? God that Harry Potter - the brat deserves a good caning. Why do the nice transhumanists like Voldemort get whooped up on. Its religious discrimination. And Lucius in jail! He needs someone to sodomize. Where do I volunteer? (This is the sodomy post, right?)

Caning for HP. Caning I say!

Hey, guess what! Its only 85 degrees today!Had a big storm last night. (seems to be what happens whenever I do some sort of elemental-related work). I’m sure it’ll be back up to the 100s by tomorrow, but today is enjoyable.

By: Richard the Previous

Richard the Previous — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:57:34 +0000

Map Making IS fascinating. Especially the whole “The Mercator Projection is an evil racist White Centric way of looking at the world in which predominantly white countries (or regions) appear much larger than countries (or continents) predominantly of color” vs “The Gall-Peters Projection is a way to still have lines of distance be linear but project a true representation of relative country size” controversy!

I mean, it is true that in the Mercator Project Greenland looks bigger than Africa (which is 14 times the size of Greenland) and Alaska looks bigger than Brazil (which is 5 times the size of Alaska), but even Mercator only used the projection to plot courses.

Or so I am told by the EVIL MERCATOR CONSPIRATORS!

But hey, the only way to get the closest representation to true size and distance is via a Globe.

So No more Maps!

Unless they are curved.

And by the way, who decided the predominantly white countries would be on top of the world?

There’s no up or down in space.

Just saying.

By: stefficus

stefficus — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:11:10 +0000

the new-who writers are an interesting bunch.

i’m about to start reading “too far from home” about the three men left haplessly orbiting earth after the space shuttle columbia dropped them off at the space station and later exploded. does that fit in with the ship theme?

i, um… actually find mapmaking somewhat fascinating. *sheepish*

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:19:55 +0000

(Tee hee hee…

By: Richard the Previous

Richard the Previous — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:05:06 +0000

My historicals started out with English Royalty — the princes in the tower, Henry and his assorted wives, Elizabeth, War of the Roses, you know that sort. Then it was England in the 17th century and Catherine DeMedici and before you know it is in Revolutionary U.S. (skipped that in college — didn’t want gung ho patriotism)and the 19th century middle east and now it is just all over the place.

In some ways, it is like fantasy. Far off places that you can NEVER go to. Because of the problem of time travel and all that.

Interestingly, Mojo said that he liked the historically set Dr Whos better than the future ones. In the old (or Classic) Who, the feeling was that people were bored with the historical Whos and they stopped doing them in 1966 and didn’t do them again until the 80s!

Leave it to Mojo to like what no one else does.

And I realize that sets me up as the butt of a joke.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:38:37 +0000

I’m in.

Coincidentally, that’s also the title of Chapter 3.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:30:48 +0000

Yes, I’d buy either of those books. Is the Rum, Sodomy and the Lash book an instructional tome?

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask. by Ricardus Praevius

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:06:01 +0000

Isn’t that JUST like a bunch of bloody, self righteous christians?! They hate everyone for not being the way they want, so they set off to create a cult environment of their own during which they screw up the navigation (stupid, as usual) and then steal from people they don’t even know — a direct contradiction of their purported beliefs, esp. since the Dutch weren’t “good enough” christians for them! (Using Yosemite Sam voice) I HATES christians.

Good point, Che! The whole IS more than the sum of it’s parts.

Richard, I wholly support your book writing, either about the lesbian Mayflower lass, or the Rum, Sodomy, and Lash book. I’d buy it. Or, I’d buy the latter ;-P

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:38:55 +0000

I didn’t even see this post last night, but I was multi-tasking.

Usually when I read history books its about Renaissance Italy. Or I read history books for research for short stories (for instance, I know a heck of a lot about French Colonial Vietnam)

Well at least Winston Churchill wasn’t insisting the navy men ‘don’t ask don’t tell’. Looks like he’d already asked, and they’d told. Rum, sodomy and the lash. Three of my favorite things, at least when you put’em all together. Separately, they’re all kinda mediocre.