"the light of setting suns, / And the round ocean, and the living air, / And the blue sky"

[larryhammer]

"SF Clichés: A Sonnet Cycle" by John M. Ford.

Extreme commute: From New Zealand to Rural Iceland. (FWIW, Scots and Scandinavian butchers also do this.) (via)

It takes a little less than 5 and a quarter hours to travel the Nozomi Shinkansen from Tokyo to Hakata/Fukuoka. You're welcome. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798," William Wordsworth.

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Five hours long.

One million views and rising.


Admittedly, many will be partial, but still.

[larryhammer]

I'll have to cut this off with an hour to go when I go home. (I've been interrupted by meetings. Silly meetings -- don't you people want to watch a train instead???)

---L.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Set it to play on the screen beside you so you can pretend you're in a train, in the meetings!

[larryhammer]

Meetings in person, alas. In the meeting rooms. But I've resumed it on my second monitor -- heading west into Okayama now.

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

That sonnet cycle was worth it for "The Alien" and "Alternate Histories" alone. --Matt

[larryhammer]

And "Time Machines."

Mike Ford was a damn fine writer.

---L.