Cunning as a 9 Tailed Fox?

[matgb]

lithium_doll:

I'm going to try for the 1000 comments anyway. SPAM ME! Invite your flist, your family, your enemies, your milkman. I welcome discussion, poetry, fic, jokes, pr0n, pretty, pretty pictures, and politics. And anything else. I'm easy. So, so easy.

here. 'twas her who pointed out to me I'd made my 500th post, so go comment as requested? She may even make a vid or something. However, as rho observes I must've deleted some, as the post number said 503:

I also know how to work it out anyway. This entry is 129014.html. Take the numerical part of that (129014) and divide it by 256, then chuck out the remainder. That gives you 253. The number in the URL is generated by:

N = 256E + R

where N is the number in the URL, E is the number of the entry, and R is a random integer from 0 to 255.

Which was interesting. It also means that milady Doll has deleted about 31 posts at various stages, as it's actually her 1031st...

Today, I was due in Exeter. draich_goch even rang me to remind me. I said hello, and immediately went back to sleep. Instead, I read Jon Courtney Grimwood's 9TailFox. Apparently, it's an SF novel. I'd say it was even less SF than the Ashraf Bey series (which apparently he's writing a new one of), but there y'go. Good read, regardless.

Basic premise is that a San Francisco cop is investigating an apparent murder committed by a 13 year old girl, and gets killed. He then wakes up in the body of a coma case who's been unconscious for quite awhile, and, conveniently, is a little bit wealthy. There's the usual Grimwood characterisation, but I'm not really sure it's a real difference from either the Ashraf books or Stamping Butterflies. I didn't spot some of the twists, although they were heralded, and some of the elements were a little OTT, but I suppose the OTT elements may be what made it SF.

Only big drawback to me is it made me miss San Francisco and wish I'd organised my stay there a bit more than "get up, find something cool to do" while I was there. Ah well, can always go again sometime. Well, assuming it doesn't sink into the sea anytime soon...

Comments

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

I wonder how they calculate the profile page - it obviously gives a different number. I've deleted 2 entries in the entire time I've been on LJ so something's off somewhere *g*

Thank you for the pimpery!

[matgb]

Profile page could be non-private? Or out of date and non-dynamic? Or just crap and wrong?

I dunno, it just gives a number that I never paid attention to before now. Meh, who cares...

[mrblue1966.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the attempt at 1000 comments.

I'd call it absolute madness, as mad as mad pope with a dodgie past.

[matgb]

I've seen it done, but mostly with people with massive friend of lists, not something I can be bothered to get. Easily acheived if you write a lot about something specific, like Harry Potter or similar though.

But not me doing it, it's the crazy one.

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

The Peter Pig event was very pink. The colour was everywhere...

They seemed to be playing PBI, which I find to be altogether too random for my tastes. Also, it rewards you for rolling low, which just makes me bridle.

[matgb]

Strangely, it's the only set of their rules I own, even though it's the set I least like.

Remind me to set up a few games of AK-47 for people at some point, that's a very silly game, well worth playing.

[draich-goch.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, I was thinking of taking the AK-47 stuff up for the next monthly meet (Saturday 7th October). If you want to try it come along. I'll drag Mat along too as he has failed to turn up on two days in a row now, so I'm starting to think that he's just a figment of my imagination!

PBI was pretty good, good enough to make me consider buying the new set of rules which has done away with the "battleships" bit. And Steve sells them in the shop, so it's supporting our local shop.

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about books that are nominally "science fiction", although lacking in any elements that actually identify them as such. I had a similar moment a while back, when I got an anthology from the library in Exeter. Supposedly it was a "the best of" collection from one of the big American magazines. A lot of the stories, though, had nothing in them that set them aside in any real way from conventional literature.

I had nothing against them as stories, but I just couldn't see what the point was of pretending they were SF/fantasy when, umm, they obviously aren't.

[shakalooloo.livejournal.com]

They were set in THE FUTURE!

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was the other ironic thing ... most of them weren't!

[matgb]

So they were funny, but not sci-fi?

Or was that an Alanis use of the word ironic? ;-)

Meh, weird categories are at times used; his Ashraf Bey books were for awhile classed and sold as 'crime', despite being set in an alternate history future version of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile, and him having a computer embedded into his head talking to him all the time...

I care not, it was a good book that I liked, I'd have bought it regardless of how it was filed.