This is mostly a placeholder. I put most of my stuff in my blog these days..
| Sections of dis-interest | ||
|---|---|---|
| GCU Poke It With A Stick | Gaming | |
| GSV Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall | On the Palm platform, notes on eBooks | Ebooks |
| GCU Very Little Gravitas Indeed | The List of our DVD Collection | DVD's |
| GSV Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence | My Weblog... | Blathering.. |
Iain M. Banks, The Guardian newspaper in August 2000 (I think):
"It was a scathing review of Culture ship-naming policy delivered by another Involved civilisation. They suggested that such enormously powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status;
the immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like: Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?; Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment...; Gravitas Free Zone; Low Gravitas Warning Signal, etc etc (including the Zen-like Absolutely No You-No-What). I am so sad I have a separate list of the Gravitas ships at home. It currently runs to about 20, I think."