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As part of a redesign in June 1984, the magazine renamed the popular column to "Computing at Chaos Manor", and the accompanying letter column became "Chaos Manor Mail". [ 48 ] Pournelle preferred 5 1/4-inch floppy disks to 8-inch disks as late as 1982, [ 54 ] and still used "Zeke" to write as late as 1987, but admitted that he would soon have ...
Janissaries is a science fiction novel by American author Jerry Pournelle.Originally published in 1979, and illustrated by comic artist Luis Bermejo, it is the first book of Pournelle's Janissaries series.
A small force of mostly American troops, mercenaries under a secret CIA contract in Africa during the Cold War about to be annihilated by a Cuban military force, is "rescued" by the Shalnuksis, extraterrestrial beings part of an interstellar Confederation who offer them their lives in exchange for service on a primitive planet raising surinomaz ("madweed"), a plant used to produce a ...
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The crowd cheers as former President Donald Trump and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance are announced at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis ...
Hazel Thayer, a Facebook user who shared several of the bizarre images on TikTok after she noticed them in her feed a few weeks ago, said she now gets AI images like those maybe every 10 posts ...
Pearl’s Peril is set in the 1930s, and opens with the titular adventurer, Pearl Wallace, receiving news of her father Samuel's suicide. [8] Shocked, she goes back to Artemis Island, her childhood home and home of all the Wallace clan, with her friend Iris Hillman by her side; Pearl cannot believe her father committed suicide.
Chaos I is a kinetic artwork by Swiss artist Jean Tinguely located inside The Commons, which is downtown Columbus, Indiana, United States. The work was commissioned by J. Irwin Miller , his wife Xenia Miller , and E. Celementine Tangeman (Miller's sister) in late 1971 for The Commons, an enclosed public space designed by Cesar Pelli .