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from time the fact of the matter is time travel is not only dangerous it can easily cause headaches for the good of everything it s best to leave the time circuits off and to keep the flux capacitor from fluxing besides if you re a really unlucky time traveller you might avoid changing the future by stumbling into something that s far far worse a predestination paradox i hate predestination paradoxes posted by phoebe barton at 11 50 2 comments labels apocalypse science fiction sf theory thoughts time saturday february 20 2010 pdp 179 exactly what it says on the sign sometimes not even stereotypes can prepare you for the oddness a great case in point is southern california everyone knows that los angeles is utterly built for the car in ways that put other cities to shame but it took a while for that to be made absolutely clear and technically speaking it didn t happen in los angeles at all brand boulevard is one of the main streets of glendale california long and straight and with plenty of room to install a streetcar or lrt system but i digress if you re travelling north from los angeles on it though in order to reach downtown glendale you first have to traverse brand boulevard of cars which is a stretch of brand boulevard absolutely lined with automobile dealerships to the extent that there are signs pointing to them in the median throw in a few inexpensive motels tire salons and wonderful wonderful billboards and you d practically have judge doom s dream made real that s what finally convinced me that los angeles really was a four wheeled city i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it into the public domain this applies worldwide in case this is not legally possible i grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions unless such conditions are required by law posted by phoebe barton at 11 00 no comments labels cars los angeles photo public domain photography friday february 19 2010 the fire and the fussbudget earlier this week the city of toronto released its 2010 capital and operating budgets to no shortage of criticism this is something that unfortunately the city has to live with unlike the federal and provincial governments the city is required by law to balance its books every year and so cannot run deficits considering the way that ottawa and queen s park have acted for basically my entire life this is definitely a do as we say not as we do thing because of this though the city frequently has to contort itself in painful ways to make the budget work i m still going through the budget and honestly the thing is so dense and unapproachable that it ll most likely take a good while but i have been poring through the new user fees and while most of them are understandable if a bit galling take childrens activities at city recreational centers formerly free but now they ll be 15 per participant there are some that i have no idea how the city can defend like say the new charge that is going to be rolled out for false fire alarms from what i understand this is a modification of an already existing charge but where it was originally slapped on repeat false alarm offenders now it s for every single false alarm regardless of whether it s the result of idiot kids or drunks pulling the alarm or an overly sensitive smoke detector that doesn t like your cooking this is a 350 charge it s not a flat rate either it is 350 per vehicle the next time that someone triggers the alarm in my building then at that rate there ll be more than a thousand dollars worth of fines idling on the street after a few minutes the city plans to make 4 890 375 from this charge which means that because of this thirty eight times every day people will not appreciate the whirr of the sirens approaching if i am elected mayor i pledge to eliminate this no forgiveness false alarm charge and return it to what it was before i hope that the eventual winner whoever it may be keeps this in mind 350 for the first false alarm call thank you city for making the hard budgetary decisions i honestly can t understand what the city was thinking when it brought this in budgeting based on punitive fines that are ultimately optional in the sense that people can theoretically choose to avoid committing actions that would result in fines is not good economic sense more than that though in my mind it amounts to an assault on the common torontonian whose own fiscal resources are already being strained and don t have the liberty of imposing fines to find level ground if this fine fell squarely on the shoulders of whoever pulled the fire alarm then i wouldn t mind as much personal responsibility is something that shouldn t be avoided i seriously doubt this is what s going to happen though i and many other torontonians live in multi unit apartment buildings and it s rare that a month goes by without the harsh wailing jangle of the klaxon waking us up and sending us down to the cold street way too friggin early in the morning i would not be surprised to see landlords simply turning around and charging their tenants to make up the cost of the fine for a big building this isn t killer but smaller buildings don t have many tenants to spread the pain between what i worry about are the smaller fires that would previously have been caught but won t because people disconnect their smoke alarms to avoid accidentally setting off a false alarm this is purely a stopgap solution and it shows i don t think this is the sort of thing we should be pursuing and it s not the sort of thing that toronto should hold on to we re a better city than that nevertheless this sort of thing is going to keep happening governments of the last few decades were blinded by prosperity thought it would last forever and thus took no action whatsoever to prepare for times that would not be so good except for alberta and its oil powered heritage fund wise governments would plan for that and not simply scramble for whatever scraps they can find in the pantry posted by phoebe barton at 10 57 no comments labels rabble rabble rabble toronto toronto 2010 thursday february 18 2010 pdp 178 right of way the streetcar right of way along the queensway is one of the oldest in toronto built back in the 1950s as an adjunct to fred gardiner s sprawling road projects it s also one of the only places in the city where toronto s streetcars can do what they were built to do accelerate to high speeds and fly like the wind as i can t think of anywhere else that combines a private row with relatively low perpendicular traffic volumes like the queensway does it also encourages development alongside it this is a nice area east of windermere the houses are all facing high park and grenadier pond i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it into the public domain this applies worldwide in case this is not legally possible i grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions unless such conditions are required by law posted by phoebe barton at 09 15 no comments labels photo public domain photography toronto wednesday february 17 2010 short sf review 13 second chance second chance by walter kubilius and fletcher pratt appeared in fantastic story magazine september 1952 the picture changed not so much in character as in location for the mountains were not quite so steep here but there was the same range upon range of smoking mountains and from the side of one a slow flow of lava was making its way down to quench itself boilingly in a sullen grey sea we ve always known as a species that we live on the edge of annihilation every nation every civilization every moment in history has had no shortage of doomsayers preaching about the end of the world that pattern changed in the mid twentieth century after the second world war humanity went from living in a world that could end at any time to living in a world that really could end at any time stories of ragnarok or judgement day are all well and good but mutually assured destruction puts them all to shame it s no surprise that postwar science fiction struggled with the implications of the shadow that had fallen across the world in second chance set in an otherwise undescribed late 20th or early 21st century earth is groaning under the strains of the fourth world war grains are effectively extinct the western alliance and cominworld presumably descendants of nato and the warsaw pact have been driven into underground cities and are wholly dedicated to the war against each other the concept of total war is taken to its logical conclusion here with every man woman and child in the territory of the western alliance engaged either in the production of war materials or in providing food for those who do produce them the exception as always is the leadership second chance focuses on general of the armies alvin weinburger and his philosophical conflict with clifford dayton leader of the civilian authority the civilian government that s come to rule what remains of civilization in the western alliance as the story begins the military sees an opportunity to launch a massive ballistic missile strike against the underground cities of the cominworld destroy them utterly and thus pave the way for the fifth world war the problem here is that earth is on its last legs constant exchanges of hydro bombs presumably hydrogen bombs the first test of which took place several months after the publication of this story have shattered the planetary environment though they didn t predict nuclear winter the authors image of a post nuclear world is not particularly pleasant for some reason the nuclear exchanges activate or create volcanoes pumping carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere in such quantities that the sky is always dark the ice of antarctica has melted drowning the eastern seaboard of the united states and flooding much of the mississippi valley this is a world where positive feedbacks have taken control and earth is fast becoming a tropical planet unsuitable for the maintenance of human civilization of course there s an out in these stories there s always an out which always makes me gnash my teeth because there is no corresponding out in the real world the same ballistic missiles with which general weinberger seeks to destroy the cominworld could also be used as spaceships to ferry colonists not to mars which in a surprising bit of accuracy for a 1950s pulp skiffy story is described as not habitable to venus which is potentially habitable to his credit one of the generals chews out the scientist presenting the plan for having made no effort to determine if venus has oxygen water or anything else necessary for human survival when general weinburger learns that the civilian government has been working with its opposite numbers in the cominworld in support of the venus colonization proposal he also learns how limited his authority really is that through the western alliance s practice of total war the military has been swallowed by civilian necessity had i been writing this story this is probably where i would have ended it with a bit of fluffing on the earlier parts as well not kubilius and pratt though they ve still got three pages what happens now is that the venusians arrive really a fleet of spaceships descend into the atmosphere establish mathematical communication with earth on the basis of the pythagorean theorem and after what seems to be about five minutes the cryptographers decode the venusian language considering that there are purely human languages which have yet to be deciphered i find that rather hard to swallow though on the other hand exactly the sort of thing i d been led to expect from less disciplined golden age writing the venusians have come to earth begging they ve ruined their own world and they seek permission to settle earth s swamps and volcano lands they fought a war you see that scrubbed the carbon dioxide from venus atmosphere and biological warfare turned their crops into wholly inedible hard grains there is even ice at one of the poles how conveeeeeeeeeenient it honestly seems like nothing but a tacked on happy ending so as to not leave the readers with a ruined earth and an uncertain but extremely precarious future there s good seeds of potential in there i think but i don t think they were realized aliens inhabiting the solar system is just par for the course when it comes to golden age science fiction nevertheless too much of the resolution depends on superscience and convenient happenstances the reason that the golden age of science fiction is so fondly recalled today is because a lot of stories like this have been forgotten andrew s rating 1 5 5 previous short sf reviews 12 hades charles f ksanda 11 revolt of the ants milton kaletsky 10 blessed are the meekbots daniel f galouye 9 to make a new neanderthal w macfarlane 8 funnel hawk tom ligon 7 testing one two three four steve chapman 6 bite lawrence a perkins 5 no shoulder to cry on hank davis 4 crazy oil brenda pearce 3 the saturn game poul anderson 2 job inaction timothy zahn 1 roachstompers s m stirling posted by phoebe barton at 10 27 no comments labels golden age review sf short sf review tuesday february 16 2010 pdp 177 river sunrise back in 2005 when i had a radio show i had to get up early to prevent the possibility of dead air at trent radio house my route took me north from downtown peterborough along the west bank of the otonabee river the dividing line between peterborough proper and east city depending on what the morning was like the way the sun rose above the river could be rather inspiring i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it into the public domain this applies worldwide in case this is not legally possible i grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions unless such conditions are required by law posted by phoebe barton at 09 57 1 comment labels photo public domain photography monday february 15 2010 toward a greener toronto last week the toronto environmental alliance announced a list of priorities it believes the next mayor of toronto should incorporate into his or her governing strategy the tea s news release gives the priorities as follows build transit city and fund it achieve 70 waste diversion by 2012 buy and support locally produced green products build transportation infrastructure everyone can use implement the city s sustainable energy strategy provide tools to prevent pollution it s good to see organizations taking an active interest in the environmental chops of prospective mayors i think we ve come to a time where urban environmental strategies are as important a component of governance as development strategies or justice strategies for too long it s been ignored after looking through these suggestions i believe they re valid and would greatly assist in the improvement of toronto s lot i ll be more than happy if i m 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