airships and mellow technologies and fictional ideas (silly ramblings, really)

[Monte Davis]

>also a Nietzschean place in which power 
> is for the taking, if you are able, and where you might end 
> up drinking bad water and puke your guts out on an abandoned 
> cold cellar, alone (Mommy!), very possibly to die.


Jeez, I was thinking bleak... 

But (as in one variant of the shaggy dog story) not *that* bleak :-)

Barkeep! A virtual drink here for my friend David, and keep them coming.