...the Mold: Part One :: Part Two :: Part Three (R) [for hyperfocused ] Clarity (PG) [for autburnnothenna ] Deep Water (NC-17) [for snowglow1275 ] Double Escapement (R) [for callmerizzo ] Dreams Are Never As They Seem (NC-17) [for darkmoore ] Everything Changes (And you gotta be ready) (PG13) [for vanitashaze ] Fourteen...
Title: Double Escapement Rating: R Pairing: Sheppard / McKay Recipient: Callmerizzo Summary: AU: Europe, 1820; swords to ploughshares (or rather to musical instruments... steadying his weight against the instrument's metal frame, to watch McKay's hands. "We call it double escapement," said Grodin helpfully. "It means the note can be repeated much sooner than on a conventional instrument: ...
...I think of my animagus form I think of freedom . I think it might be beneficial to have a fast animagus form. The ability to escape would be helpful, but I'm not too particular on the mode of escapement. Are there any traits or capabilities which you absolutely do not want? I don't think I'd want a clumsy animagus form. I am already clumsy enough in real life, I'd prefer something with a bit of...
... them up because all three authors were folks who seem to be highly regarded by folks I like, and authors I had never read a novel by. Scalzi's Old Man's War was the first of the three. 29. Escapement by Jay Lake I wanted to like this book. Steampunk! Submarines! Airships! It just didn't work for me, though. I found that I didn't connect with any of the characters. I didn't buy into the ...
A reader reacts to Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Borders ] xkcd with "Movie Narrative Charts" — Pretty damned cool. The Stonemaker’s nitpicking Argument — Hahah. Worldbuilding be damned! The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English Molecular Sunglasses for Macular Degeneration — Is this nanotech?
...| Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders ] — Jay Lake’s Green has one of the most wonderful new female protagonists I’ve read in a while (Thanks to Cora.) Foreign Service Journal reviews Escapement and Green here and here — (Thanks to my Dad.) Google Dashboard: Now You Know What Google Knows About You — Um, yeah. (Thanks to lillypond .) The Very Serious Paradox — The ...
A reader reacts to Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Borders ] RULES OF SEDUCTION: writing the opposite sex — Justine Musk on character. English, Jack — A blog for you really high end grammar geeks. Articulated Railroad Car: 1935 — Another quite cool patent drawing. The Fairey Rotodyne — This looks to me like some crazed Soviet project. Would you fly in ...
... ] — Rather badly. Mixed in with a number of capsule reviews. My favorite line of the review is the closer. Incredible Astronomical Clocks — Fans of the Mainspring series, and readers of Escapement in particular, will enjoy this Dark Roasted Blend feature. Project BLT — Making your own BLT. Literally. (Via Freakonomics .) I do not know much about rivers. — The Edge of the ...
This is the Corpus Clock, one of the more recent additions to the "Historic" centre of Cambridge. More commonly called the Chronophage (literally "time eater") after the large grasshopper-shaped escapement mechanism which sits atop the clock and "eats" the seconds as they go by, it's quite a tourist draw and has its own Wikipedia entry . It's usually surrounded by tourists taking photographs. ...
...bovil and fixed myself some breakfast, put on slippers (I was already wearing sweats; it's November!) and picked up the paper. I'm very glad I agreed to follow everyone's (including the CDC) advice and *not* try to go back to work immediately. 'Nother day stuck in the house. Think I'll tackle jaylake 's Escapement today (it was one of the special goodies in our WFC2009 bags).
