[really, really Infinities] strange things are afoot

[Foxboy]

LG: Well, to be honest, I started by dinking around with a grey-box I found while on a nature walk with my nephew. Not really doing much, but when I found out I could kludge up a reprap of sorts...

PLAYBOY: And that led to your 'sleeves?'

LG: Indirectly. I used it to build the tools to build the tools, you see. The very first project that was more than 'ooh shiny' was an exoskeletal support frame for my father. Got him out of his wheelchair and walking under 'his own power.' When I found out how easy it was to produce biomimetics, I called my friend [rogue transhumanist Asmodeus Gray,] and I said, "Azzy? How would you like to build a Hall of Presidents to make Disney weep?"

PLAYBOY: What did he say?

LG: Can we make Miss February instead? [Laughter]

--- Excerpt from an interview with Eljay Goddard, Playboy Magazine, April 2024
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll