No. Not yet. I will be, though. That was a rather special evening, actually. I was on my way home from my father's funeral.

Thanks for the kind words. Do you listen to any of Aidan's solo work? The description you gave kinda reminds me of The Sea Swells a Bit.... Good stuff! Meditative ambient. Oh, have you heard Nadja's latest collaboration with Vampillia? It's beautiful. Nadja + ambient and a piano!

hey, thanks for the comment.
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash. A classic.
Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series is fantastic - Altered Carbon / Broken Angels / Woken Furies
J.G. Ballard. PERIOD.
William S. Burroughs if you don't already. Nova Express is a good starter.
A great precursor to cyberpunk is Alan E Nourse's 1974 novel Blade Runner - look it up (not the movie).

Great! Let me know what you think!

It's simple! I found the star symbols on Wikipedia (link) and just use dimgrey color on one of the black stars to make it represent a half-star.

I've also saved a text-file containing the stars with RYM formatting on my computer—with a shortcut in the toolbar in Firefox—for easy use. It contains this:

★★★☆☆
[!NoParse]

Pleased to make your acquaintance!

hey i dont know you but i was looking at my recommendations and you were the second person to rec me something but i didnt dl it until recently but not knowing that you rec'd it before but now i realize and it was SUICIDE and i certainly could've used that recurd during '11 but thanks anyways