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May. 12th, 2012 22:19Friday May 11, 2012. Woke up hours earlier than usual, feeling better than I had for a while.
***Downtown Minneapolis currently has a number of food trucks. All have foods which would have been too exotic for office worker lunches a few decades ago.
***At Metro Transit's store, I picked up schedules. Four times a year, a bunch of bus schedules change; and May 12th was this quarter's date from such changes.
Stopped in at Office Depot.
On to Central Library. On one door, "smoke free facility" has been altered to "mole tree facility."
Back south to the Southwest Senior Center, where I had two cups of tea. And then home.
***The Paris Review @parisreview
The people who invented pagers never imagined that they would change the shape of urban drug dealing.-William Gibson http://bit.ly/J4oymn
***Read: A Star Above It: Selected stories of Chad Oliver, Volume 1; NESFA Press, 2003. Most of these sf stories were published in the 1950s (14 of 18); as one would expect, they got the future a bit wrong. "All around him in the great building he felt the gigantic mechanical brain with its millions of circles and flashing lights."
Fewer characters smoke cigarettes than in most 1950s future-set stories -- but more of them smoke pipes. (The jacket copy says Oliver was a pipe collector.)
I rated the book three stars out of five on Goodreads. Oliver was a competent writer; and he used what he knew.
***Downtown Minneapolis currently has a number of food trucks. All have foods which would have been too exotic for office worker lunches a few decades ago.
***At Metro Transit's store, I picked up schedules. Four times a year, a bunch of bus schedules change; and May 12th was this quarter's date from such changes.
Stopped in at Office Depot.
On to Central Library. On one door, "smoke free facility" has been altered to "mole tree facility."
Back south to the Southwest Senior Center, where I had two cups of tea. And then home.
***The Paris Review @parisreview
The people who invented pagers never imagined that they would change the shape of urban drug dealing.-William Gibson http://bit.ly/J4oymn
***Read: A Star Above It: Selected stories of Chad Oliver, Volume 1; NESFA Press, 2003. Most of these sf stories were published in the 1950s (14 of 18); as one would expect, they got the future a bit wrong. "All around him in the great building he felt the gigantic mechanical brain with its millions of circles and flashing lights."
Fewer characters smoke cigarettes than in most 1950s future-set stories -- but more of them smoke pipes. (The jacket copy says Oliver was a pipe collector.)
I rated the book three stars out of five on Goodreads. Oliver was a competent writer; and he used what he knew.