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."