Back Fence Ramblings

• 14:21 Here's wishing everyone a happy 2010. Or at least, a happier year than 2009 seems to have been. #
• 14:21 Meanwhile, I've come up with a podcast-only rewrite of a section of Ch1 that means that I don't have to sing! You can thank me later. #
• 15:25 @pickwick Philosophical question, though: with teleportation, is it really 'you' on the other side? What happens to consciousness? To anima? #
• 15:28 About 3 hrs to Doctor Who End of Time pt2. Will watc, but am dubious. DUBIOUS, I say. #
• 15:29 @pickwick Still seems creepy. It assumes all we are is molecules. I'd prefer save teleportation for the inanimate. Replicators FTW! #
• 15:32 For the rest of twitlist: discussion about teleportation with @pickwick. Neat idea, but is it 'you' on the other side? Or just a good copy? #
• 15:33 If that latter, what happens to 'you'? What of consciousness? Anima? Are we just a collection of molecules? #
• 15:33 @pickwick Well, that's all teleportation would be. Disintegration on one end, replication on the other out of random molecules. #
• 15:34 Well, philosophical approaches to sci-fi tech probably not the worst way to spend New Year's Day. #
• 15:39 @pickwick Oh, you really need to listen to/buy @jchutchins' 7th Son series for a good treatment of that one. jchutchins.net #
• 15:40 @pickwick But given Star Trek tech, there's a pattern of you locked in a buffer somewhere. Copy therefore possible from template. #
• 15:46 @pickwick There's the big question, though: without your life force to drive it, would the copy be like you, or just a corpse? #
• 15:47 @pickwick Or would someone long-dead ... or worse, someTHING ... hijack the breathing meat and run around our plane, looking like you? #
• 15:48 @pickwick ...This all begs the question of why I don't write sci-fi. If I could work a story out of that concept, it'd be EPIC. #
• 15:53 @StephenSuthes Ah, as in Stephen King's "The Jaunt". Interesting idea, but comes with its own problems. What lives in subspace? #
• 15:59 Wow. First Twitter fail of 2010. Pah. #
• 15:59 @Asmenedas Um ... actually, nope. Meant to, never got around to it. #
• 17:45 @dodgyhoodoo What about gap-in-subspace a la Stephen King's "The Jaunt"? Though I dunno if it's teleportation in the strictest sense. #
• 18:27 @dodgyhoodoo Or get eaten in. Who knows what lives out there? #
• 18:29 @dodgyhoodoo Dancing on Davies' Who-related grave? Can't bitch about it unless you've seen it? What if it actually works? The Need to Know? #
• 18:29 @dodgyhoodoo I want to see how they justify Dalton et al, myself. #
• 18:41 RT @dodgyhoodoo: I've got a bad feeling about this. AMEN. A-fucking-men. #
• 18:55 Oh dear gods. Didn't CoE teach Davies that sometimes you don't need a comedy getaway? #
• 19:36 @ceekayell I think that was less the Doctor and more Davies, that little hissy-fit, y'know. #
• 19:44 *headdesh headdesk headdesk headdesk* #
• 19:47 @racheline_m Well, I'm headdesking. BADLY headdesking. #
• 19:50 I am not so quietly shrieking for the Doctor to EAT THE FUCKING RICE BALL, ALREADY. #
• 19:51 ...Hang on. THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN WITH ECCLESTONE. #
• 19:52 Hello, shiny excuse to rebuild the TARDIS. #
• 19:55 It won't be a spoiler if I start shrieking SELF-INDULGENT BOLLOCKS at the top of my lungs, right? #
• 19:57 No, I don't want to watch Confidential. @dodgyhoodoo can I please borrow the S1 DVDs at some point? I need brain-cleansing. #
• 21:33 Ooooh, The Witches of Eastwick is on tonight. #

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