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Eric Smith
  • Member for 9 years, 10 months
  • Last seen more than 2 years ago
  • Denver CO USA
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Old guy (how did that happen?) who's loved SF since age 5, and developed a liking for fantasy much more recently. By day an embedded system firmware consultant, trying to do my small part to bring about the future, and hoping that it's a good one.

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Are the off-world colonies really a "golden land of opportunity"?
Oct 26, 2016
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The Moriarty Sentience Problem - A.K.A. Why isn't the Enterprise computer considered sentient?
Nov 24, 2014
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Is Earth the home planet of the Culture?
Feb 28, 2017
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Humorous short story about government agent tracking down unauthorized weather control
Nov 18, 2014
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Humorous short story about a young woman who wants to demonstrate shape-changing to her boyfriend
Oct 22, 2014
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Looking for a story about a scientist that makes a gift for child, a tiny box "containing" a large new pet
Nov 18, 2014
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Short story with competitors complaining to government about a new very popular synthetic food
Jan 1, 2015
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Short story: people vote by telephone to kill people [duplicate]
Nov 22, 2014
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In which galaxy (or galaxies) are the Culture present?
Feb 28, 2017
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Story about a spacecraft crewman picking up women in a bar, intending them harm
Aug 4, 2019
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How much current does a microSD card use?
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How to write Python code that is able to properly require a minimal python version?
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Why did line printers have 132 columns?
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Was the purported 1968 standard for encoding ASCII on punched cards ever used?
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Using MakeLowercase and StrSubstitute together