Memory like... like... one of those metal things with holes in it.

[faustus]

I was going to post a query because it was one of those things that you couldn't Google, and that wouldn't be on Hal Hall's SFRDB, nor in the Locus Index (which I find answers most things round here).

Only I've forgotten what it was.

If anyone a) knows what it is and b) what the answer was, I'd appreciate it.

Comments

... now what's the question

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

A: the final page is missing from the first edition
A: Dave Langford under the pseudonym of Bete du Jour
A: Blake-no-apostrophe-s Seven series 3
A: the term 'sexbot'

Re: ... now what's the question

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about:

Buying a spice rack from Netto (they didn't have them)

Going to St Augustine's

Whether my 9 o'clock at Invicta would be followed by a 10 o'clock at Augustine House

Biopunk

The Madchester music scene

will Fahrenheit 9/11 fit in a two hour slot

what to do about my smelly trainers

No, none of the above, I fear.



I appear to have lost my mind.

"When did you have it last?"

Re: ... now what's the question

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

And a question: what's biopunk?

Re: ... now what's the question

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I believe it's one of the following:

a) what the kids are calling post-cyberpunk these days
b) an alternative term for what I called and prefer to call cyberpunk-flavoured
c) a species of Amazonian tree frog

To be honest I hadn't heard of the term until a reader's report told me that this was what term I should be using. Consider me going grr at this.


Plan A for today was:

a) hack out 500 words for publicity article
b) send off tax form
c) watch Fahrenheit 911 with the kids students
d) do minor rejigging on lecture for Monday
e) do the bloody rewrites on an article

a, b and d achieved. I guess I should quite while I'm ahead.

Re: ... now what's the question

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Now that's a Plan. I shall go forth in about fifteen minutes and do likewise. Only probably with more cardboard boxes.

Re: ... now what's the question

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Aargh, you moved the comment! Definitely time to go home...

Re: ... now what's the question

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Sorry. It's what comes of note proofreading before hitting send. Was in response to mail about going home, below.

Diminishing returns

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

QDE...

Re: ... now what's the question

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a more productive day than mine. Someone handed me a fairly simple bug about 15 minutes ago. In the process of fixing it I've found a rather more intractable one...

I thought the term suggested either
(a)Bold as Love, only with Johnny Rotten
or (b)Steampunk, only with compost heaps.

I think I'd plump for the Amazonian tree frog, personally.

Re: ... now what's the question

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. Vocob... vocably... whatever you call the words what you can use is going as well.

Not quite, quit.

Sod it. Turning off. Going to get vid of Full Monty from the library. Going home. Eating. Have a sodding drink or three with alcohol in it.

"And when did you last see your marbles?"

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

"I know I had it when I left home."

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Or maybe we could all think of some answers and then tomorrow we could work out what questions we were answering. It won't be any help whatsoever, but it could be a fun game...

A: Inspissated lemon juice.
A: On the bottom shelf, about 4/5ths of the way along.
A: They don't explode.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

And it might take my mind off whatever it was I'm trying to remember.

I'm sure someone did a short story in the form. John Sladek or J.G. Ballard.