If I open an account, do I remember a toaster?

So I was watching an episode of Stargate SG1 a week or two back, and one of the alien characters mentioned storing something in their spaceship’s memory banks. And I realized that I’ve been working with computers professionally for like 15 years now, and I’ve got friends who’ve been doing so for multiple decades, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard that term used to describe the actual storage facility of a real computer system. It’s always hard drive or floppy or tape or disk or RAM. Was memory bank ever a real-world computing term, or was it always just something SF writers used to get around having to describe how their technology actually worked?

The sign of the scampering kitten

I dreamed I was at the Murkworks — not the one from Twice Upon a Time, but the Seattle household of mamishka, annathepiper, and various other cool LJers. Only it was a much larger building than it is in real life, and shot through with lots of oddly shaped little rooms and corridors and secret passages. (I always suspect that my dreams of this type are flashbacks to the old and decrepit building that housed the private elementary school I attended, which had a secret passage behind the boys’ bathroom.) I remember watching a black kitten scamper around while I looked for a bathroom. Then, of course, my bladder woke me up and I used my real-life bathroom. (Bathroom dreams are not to be ignored.)

Then back to sleep, and I dreamed I was in a more realistic Murkworks, telling Mimi about my dream Murkworks, while still watching the black kitten scamper and frolic.

So properly this ought to be yet another dream. <looks around> No kitten, though, so I guess not.

Marvel Boy 2?!

I just found a startling bit of info in the latest column on Grant Morrison’s website:

Seductive Phil Winslade has been confirmed as the artist on the second series of MARVEL BOY. Look out for the End Of The Way That Was, coming soon.

The first Marvel Boy series ends promising a sequel, but I would have sworn 9/11 put an end to that — Marvel Boy was probably the single most September Tenth thing I’ve read or seen in the past couple of years. I mean, the second issue features Our Hero running around Manhattan blowing up entire blocks worth of buildings to spell out the words “FUCK YOU”, and the series ends with [only a minor spoiler, honest] his girlfriend having blown up Epcot Center and declared the start of “the Cosmic Jihad”. It’s quite good, mind, and I’m looking forward to the sequel, I’m just surprised that it’s seeing print.

I wonder if this photo's authentic

“Can I borrow yours? Mine’s broken.”

Caption by Boronx, in the comment section of the Eschaton weblog.