{"id":929,"date":"2009-03-13T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/03\/13\/must-use-words-for-my-next-sf-thriller\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:45:00","slug":"must-use-words-for-my-next-sf-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/03\/13\/must-use-words-for-my-next-sf-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Use Words For My Next SF Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are words I need, which I didn’t even know needed until I found out what they were. Then I slapped my forehead and said, “Yowza! So that’s<\/i> the word I was looking for!”<\/p>\n

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hydromodo<\/b><\/a> a “superhydrophobic coating\u2014what the scientists are casually calling ‘the cooperative effect of hierarchical micro\/nanostructures and a low-surface-energy wax coating’\u2014[which] creates a cushion of air around the boat (or the bug’s leg), putting an invisible bubble between it and the water. “<\/p>\n

lamina<\/b><\/a> “a layer of data over the real world that can be accessed by people with the right interfaces (googles, contacts, direct neural interface)”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Quick thoughts on hydromodo:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Floating City.<\/b><\/a> ‘Nuf said.<\/p>\n

Quick thoughts on lamina.<\/p>\n

Random Thought # 1: A word is still missing. Lamina is the noun. What is the verb? To … laminate? Hm…<\/p>\n

Random Thought # 2: As if High School wasn’t hell already, now you will walk down the halls knowing people are laminating the words, \u00a0epic fail<\/b><\/a> or colorguard<\/b><\/a> or whatever 4chan<\/b><\/a> equivilant will be the\u00a0 insult of choice for esteem-challenged, cybermob-mentality adolescents of the future. <\/p>\n

Random Thought # 3: It’s funny to me that they show using lamina to check out book reviews in a bookstore or to read newspapers. The first thought I had was, “Will the ebook readers be obsolete before they even take off?” Why do you need a reader if you can laminate any surface with a book?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Incidently, I sent this to my hubby and he responded, “You know, it has been one of my dreams (along with being an Olympic speed skater) to talk at TED.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are words I need, which I didn’t even know needed until I found out what they were. Then I slapped my forehead and said, “Yowza! So that’s the word I was looking for!” hydromodo a “superhydrophobic coating\u2014what the scientists are casually calling ‘the cooperative effect of hierarchical micro\/nanostructures and a low-surface-energy wax coating’\u2014[which] creates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hydromodo","category-lamina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}