In conversation at home lately, I have mentioned Edward De Bono. Specifically - the man is clearly a genius, because he has no idea at all about making up catchy new words. The example I use is 'po' - not quite yes, not quite no, it's 'beyond yes and no'. Today on the National Press Club thing (ABC), Edward De Bono was on, and it was interesting and enjoyable to watch. Then Edward mentioned that in a few days he will be launching a new concept to counter 'cool'.

Because cool, in youth culture as Edward sees it, needs countering, I guess. He summed up cool as something a murderer or rapist could be, and spoke about being cool as being aloof, distant, unimpressed. So we will now have 'Warm Form' - which people might like to shorten to 'WaFo'. WaFo is warm and caring, smiling, and reminiscent of sunshine.

I say again - Edward De Bono is quite obviously a genius, because he has no freaking idea. WaFo.

In other news, I saw my dentist today and cried for the first time in years at the dentist. I love my dentist because she's so good at not hurting, dammit. And I went to the second bookshop I like in Windsor. I didn't pick up as many cheap books as I'd wanted, but I did get a copy of Mirrorshades, which is 'the cyberpunk anthology'. I also have Heads by Greg Bear. I like my sci-fi hard, by not anything like Asimov. This is nothing against Asimov as such, but I read a lot as a child and my mum has complete Asimov, and many other older authors so I did that when I was little. It's tricky to find good hard sci-fi. Jon Courtney Grimwood is excellent, he was my latest discovery. Also today, I picked at semi random (interesting cover must catch my eye, must not look like crap, nice blurbs from authors I have enjoyed earn bonus points) The War Against Chtorr Book 1 - A Matter For Men, by David Gerrold. I was looking to buy some more pulpy doubles, but none of them grabbed me. This random pick appears to be pulpy... the cover picture has men in space garb with big laser guns, and oversized rampaging aliens. A large 'minus' was the blurb mentioning David Gerrold wrote the 'famous "Star Trek" episode "The Trouble With Tribbles"' and various essays relating to Star Trek. I have no recollection of that one, but it'd be an Original. But Then he's also been nominated for two Hugo Awards, and he had some positive blurb from authors I have enjoyed... so it should be good pulp.

Tomorrow I have the blasted respite guy coming, and the day after is the psychiatrist. The blasted respite guy is probably really nice, but I'm only doing it to shut my damn Case Manager up. I have a headache, which I think is dentist related.

[Music: Underworld - Cowgirl (Darren Price)]