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    Friday, May 16th, 2008
    8:18 am
    tSK: Passage reviews?
    Ok, so it took me a while to get my copy of Passage, since I had it preordered at Amazon but scheduled to ship with Duinfey (sp) which isn't coming out till October. Since I've been not reading the LMB list for a long time, it wasn't till reviews started showing up here I was reminded I hadn't received it yet and went to fix that.

    Anyway, finally finished it last night, and so was able to go back and read [info]ase's comments. However, I know I skipped at least half a dozen other posts and don't feel confident going back to skip 1000+ to find them while at work. Anybody want to link me to theirs in the meantime?
    Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
    7:43 am
    Since it's that time of life
    Question for you more experienced folks:

    Which rental car agency do you prefer? Are you strictly price based, or has some company or group won your loyalty through a program or service?
    Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
    7:19 pm
    Exercise and getting out
    When I went outside to get the mail (too late this afternoon), the birds were singing, the temperature was warm and nice and it was a beautiful day. I knew I had to spend as much time as possible outside.

    First, I walked part of the way around Lady Bird LakeTown Lake. The Parks and Rec site says I did 6.9 miles going from Mopac to I-35 and back, which is pretty decent. Also stopped in at the Mexican American Cultural Center since it was along there and I'd never seen it before. The Gallery had a display of absolutely incomprehensible art (except for 2 pieces, that looked like actual things). Still, the water fountain was critical at that point and I know I'll never go again with the company I keep.
    Sometime I'll have to come prepared (and a bit earlier in the day), bring some water and do the full 10.1 miles to Longhorn Dam.

    Since then, I went to Half-Price Books and picked up #11 in the Ramage series (still haven't found book 4, dammit) as well as an armload of Loretta Chase novels. [info]jazz007 like the one she has, [info]mistful likes them, and www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com likes them too. Can't be bad.

    Now I'm at Epoch chilling with [info]soupwithafork and having a good time before going home for dinner.
    Sunday, March 9th, 2008
    12:12 pm
    From Ansible 248
    "You know sf has conquered the world when a net pundit
    announces that 'Barack Obama is the Democratic Party's Kwisatz Haderach. (SnarkyBastards.com)"
    Friday, February 29th, 2008
    12:07 am
    Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
    6:27 am
    Bunnies!

    Your Score: Rabbit


    You scored 21 Ego, 14 Anxiety, and 18 Agency!




    IT was going to be one of Rabbit's busy days. As soon as he
    woke up he felt important, as if everything depended upon him.
    It was just the day for Organizing Something, or for Writing a
    Notice Signed Rabbit, or for Seeing What Everybody Else Thought
    About It. It was a perfect morning for hurrying round to Pooh,
    and saying, "Very well, then, I'll tell Piglet," and then going
    to Piglet, and saying, "Pooh thinks--but perhaps I'd better see
    Owl first." It was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody
    said, "Yes, Rabbit " and "No, Rabbit," and waited until he had
    told them.

    You scored as Rabbit!

    ABOUT RABBIT: Rabbit is generally considered Clever by his many friends and relations. He is actually a much better reader and writer than Owl, but he doesn't consider it worth mentioning. Instead, Rabbit's real talent lies in Organizing Plans. He organizes rescue parties, makes schemes to reduce Tigger's bounciness, and goes on missions to find out what Christopher Robin does when he's not at the Hundred Acre Woods. Sometimes, however, his Plans do not always go as Planned.

    WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are smart, practical and you plan ahead. People sometimes think that you don't stress or worry, but this is not the case. You are the kind of person who worries in a practical way. You think a) What are my anxieties about and b)what can be done about them? No useless fretting for you. You don't see the point in sitting around and waiting for things to work out, when you could actually work them out today and save yourself a lot of time and worry. Your friends tend to rely on you, because they know that they can trust you help them work things out.

    You sometimes tend to be impatient with people who are less practical in their ways. You don't have much patience for idiots who moan about things but never actually DO anything about them. You have high expectations of everyone, including yourself. When you don't succeed at something, or when something goes wrong despite your best efforts to prevent it, you can get quite hard on yourself. You need to cut yourself some slack and accept that everyone has their faults, even you, and THAT IS OKAY. Let yourself be faulty, every now and then, for the sake of your own sanity.




    Link: The Deep and Meaningful Winnie-The-Pooh Character Test written by wolfcaroling on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test
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    Thursday, February 7th, 2008
    10:39 pm
    Quiz...
    95


    I could do lots more with more time.
    6:18 am
    Wrath of the Divine
    Hurricanes in Arkansas and Tennessee are God's Wrath for voting for Huckabee.
    Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
    11:23 pm
    For the Bio nerds out there
    Scientists for Better PCR

    Yes, it's an ad.
    If you're a little vague on what PCR is, this might help a bit:
    http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/770002407831/m/988005379831
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCR
    9:13 pm
    Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    ( LJ Comment Meme )
    Monday, January 14th, 2008
    12:10 am
    Girl Genius - Costume Concept?
    Am I alone in thinking that someone who did a really nice Agatha Heterodyne costume based on any of these would be Really Hot?

    Leaving aside the Victorian Underwear, the skirt with pocket watches and test tubes just rules.

    EDIT - It just struck me the skirt is a "Steampunk Utilikilt, (Ladies)".*



    * I just made that up.
    Friday, January 11th, 2008
    3:48 pm
    Sunday, December 30th, 2007
    12:16 pm
    Re: Your Song About My Client Delilah
    Taken from FuMP, the Funny Music Project

    Re: Your Song About My Client Delilah

    Plain White T's front man Tom Higgenson wrote the #1 "Hey There Delilah" about an actual Delilah. Not only was Delilah never in a relationship with Tom, however, she wasn't even interested. The song, therefore, begs for a parody response. Here it is, courtesy of the Law Firm of Lund and Spaff, LLP.

    If you're not familiar with the original, you can play it here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_m-BjrxmgI
    Saturday, December 29th, 2007
    9:16 pm
    Casino Royale (1967)
    Just watched the 1967 Casino Royale, with Woody Allen and Orson Welles (and lots of other people).

    It's amazing how many things were taken from this for the Austin Powers movies, although it stands to reason. Lots of funny bits, obviously doesn't hang together as a whole.
    Thursday, December 27th, 2007
    4:05 pm
    3:59. Call comes in
    It's a home VPN issue. This will take a while.
    Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
    11:01 pm
    I had to do it.
    funny pictures



    Inspired by the Prince Caspian trailer at the theater today.

    Edit:
    The original inspiration
    Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
    6:59 pm
    Steps through adulthood
    Just another one of those things I figure "real adults" have and kids don't.[1]

    Went down to my credit union and rented a 3"x5" safe deposit box. It was the only size available, but it should take CDs diagonally and all our important papers should tri-fold. Also set up an IRA so I can rollover my disappearing 401(k).






    [1] I don't mean to dismiss anyone who doesn't have one, of course. This is just how I feel about me.
    12:52 pm
    Final (Approx) Library Results
    I've entered just about everything I can find into Readerware. There's still course packets, a few computer manuals and lots of magazines, but all the books[1] are entered.


    Stats:
    Titles: 1,427
    Books: 1,471
    Total Value of Books: 11,968.68 [2]
    Number of unvalued books: 126 [3]
    Number of first editions: 5 [4]
    Number of signed books: 4 [4]
    Number read: 0 [5]
    Number unread: 1,427 [5]


    Now comes the shelving.


    [1] Except 2 Russian books which have ISBNs but don't come up on Readerware's searches. I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard handy to enter anything about them either.
    [2] I have a number of books valued in pounds and a few in Euros. I don't know if it's converting, just adding them like any other number, or what.
    [3] Almost all Library of Congress records. Plus stuff I typed in on my own and yearbooks.
    [4] There are more. These are just the HS yearbooks we checked as such for fun.
    [5] Tied for most inaccurate number in the report.
    Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
    8:37 am
    Nautical Computing
    From the Ars Technica's review of the Apple Macbook Santa Rosa revision:

    Some of these ports used to be on the other side. Does that make them starboards?
    Thursday, November 29th, 2007
    11:15 pm
    Thoughs on my perception of the Cutting Edge Sci/Fi book market
    As many people may have noticed, there's been a bit of a kerfluffle about the SFWA decision on adopting the recommedations of the Exploratory Committee that [info]scalzi (John Scalzi) and Charlie Stross were on. The decisions of the SFWA Board are here.
    Please to be noting the substantial differences between what the Committee said and what the Board said they said.

    Scalzi closed comments on his post to directly them towards Charlie's. However, there was a thread created in his discussion forum, and in it I posted the following:

    John, like many new authors, realizes that the real challenge facing genre writers today is people not reading. It's cool that there's so many genre movies, TV shows, comic strips, etc out there, but getting people reading, and liking reading enough to go looking for other authors is what will make more people able to be writers. John sees that, and helps other people do the same. I think the development of an active literary culture of new material and new people is an essential part of what I see as the cutting edge of genre writing today, and the interconnected network of authors and fans the Internet has provided.

    I think Andrew Burt and the SFWA as an organization have been avoiding, inhibiting and preventing this, and that's a problem.

    To expand on this a bit, I read several high Sci/Fi content blogs and LJs, including Making Light, The Whatever,, [info]james_nicoll and Midnight Highways, among many others. They are written by a Publisher/Editor, a well established author with multiple novels etc, a book reviewer and fan, and a developing author. I think they've all posted on other another's sites at probably. It certainly feels like they would. This combination of audience, publisher and author forming an interconnected community is I think critical for the success of genre writing in the modern age. I read an interesting book, I go to the author's site to see what else they're written and what they have to say. They recommend someone else's book, I go read that. In between books, I participate in interesting and enlightening conversations on an infinity of topics on their sites, reinforcing my interest in what they think is good and what they are recommending. I read and loved Tobias Buckell's novels Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin because of Dave Klecha's recommentation. John Scalzi pushed it too, but I think I was already reading. However, I'm not reading Dave for the recommendations, I'm reading him for the general chat.

    I'm only a datum, but I think this community effect is the key to success in the internet age of writing.
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