6 days till WorldCon… Via Pink Tentacle, a designated hour non-smoking monkey poster from Japan in 1980 No smoking during non-smoking hours (October 1980) The “Journey to the West” monkey urges passengers not to smoke on the platform during …
One week to WorldCon starts. The Librarian character in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series gets transformed into an orang-utan. He takes great personal offense when people refer to him as a monkey. Chimps and orang-utans are apes not monkeys. But still… …
8 Days to the World Science Fiction Convention. Just found out that I’ll be accepting my prize for the short story competition at the awards ceremony on the Friday night. For some reason monkeys seem particularly popular with computer programmers …