November, 2020

ahsoka tano

Even grumpy old me was delighted with Ahsoka Tano’s appearance in the latest episode of The Mandalorian. Not so much Baby Yoda’s real name. But the prospect of Thrawn…

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Micronauts #2 (February 1979)

Mantlo and Golden bring the Micronauts to Earth and begin to develop characterisation. In an interview in BEM #24, Mantlo explained how he established the characters: “The personalities of the characters partially arose from their visual appearance as toys. Not knowing Mego’s conception of their own toys at the time, I decided that their Space Glider looked like a commander of a starship, that Biotron looked like an obsolete, semi-human robaid, that Microtron looked like he was a funny little guy, that Acroyear looked tough, and Acroyear II and Baron Karza evil. Time Traveller looked ethereal. Force Commander suggested not…

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…wait… everything’s back!

Not sure how this has happened but evening seems to be still there on my macbook. I thought it had wiped everything but it seems to have only installed updates. Phew! I must sort out how backing up better.

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agghhh!!! managed to wipe macbook hard drive

This was inevitable and I am cross with myself. Why did I leave the OS installer as a bootable option? Why do I keep so many files I’m using in a folder I deliberately don’t sync? Why did I decide to update OSX and not keep an eye on what it was doing? Agghhh!!! Maybe its my unconscious conspiring to encourage me to get a new macbook.

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part human, part machine

Interesting piece by Alex Hern warning of the possible dangers of ubiquitous wearing of “mirrorshade” AR glasses. It seems that Apple and other companies are very close to releasing ones that could be adopted by millions of people. Hern sees it as the continued trend of turninh humans into man-machine cyborgs: “What will human interaction look like eight years after smartglasses become ubiquitous? Our cyborg present sneaked up on us as our phones became glued to our hands. Are we going to sleepwalk into our cyborg future in the same way? “ www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/25/part-human-part-machine-is-apple-turning-us-all-into-cyborgs

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sunday afternoon

sunday afternoon

Finished working through all my Micronauts issues (checking condition and rebagging) which has been a delight. Really interesting to look at sequencing covers and trying to identify the artists. The title suffered from shockingly erratic quality of covers which probably didn’t help sales.

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Micronauts #1 (January 1979)

In Creating a new series for Marvel Comics: The Micronauts, Comics Journal #40 (June 1978) Mantlo writes: “The world would be, I decided, inhabitants of a “world within worlds,” as their name suggested. Homeworld, a whirling molecule on a spiralling DNA chain, became the first world in the Microverse that I blessed with life. It was a once-Earthlike world now dominated by a madman and an idea… the idea of immortality. Bearing a gift of eternal life. Baron Karza —Chief Scientist and Overseer of the Body Banks— offered^ for the price of submission, reoonstruction of damaged organs and limbs… immortality,…

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