November 2011
3 posts
“Oh, and as far as that old ‘immortality would be boring, nobody really...”
– Carrie Vaughn — In Time I’ll second that.
“Point being, at the end of every day’s worth of word-making, back up the...”
– Chuck Wendig — 25 Questions To Ask As You Write
At This Moment in History ...
At 11/11/11 11:11:11 I was running around, trying to get things together for an overnight trip to Kosrae.
October 2011
4 posts
Recent Reads
Although to be honest, these aren’t so recent. Been involved with several projects and haven’t had time to read.
Kitty Goes to War and Kitty’s Big Trouble by Carrie Vaughn
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
Dark and Stormy Knights edited by P.N. Elrod
Deadline by Mira Grant (Book 2 of the Newsflesh Trilogy)
Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison
Discord’s...
September 2011
1 post
“You don’t change the world by placidly finding your bliss — you do it by...”
– PZ Myers - What Steve Jobs did really well
August 2011
4 posts
“There are two aspects of interesting work that equally fire up the nerd brain:...”
– Rands — Bored People Quit
“Boundaries are important. American culture, the only one I’m at all...”
– Kelley Eskridge (Identity and Desire)
“We are essentially the same, and a huge part of that sameness is that we hunger...”
– Kelley Eskridge (Story is real)
Edit the Editor →
I found this entire series fascinating.
I also found it more than a little intimidating. This lady is operating on a much higher level than I. I cringe considering the effort it would take for me to reach that plateau.
June 2011
3 posts
Recent Reads
Jumper by Steven Gould
Being Geek by Michael Lopp
Astonishing X-Men Omnibus by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday
Game of Cages by Harry Connolly
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
ReVamped by J.F. Lewis - (Void City #2)
The Orc King, The Pirate King, The Ghost King by R.A. Salvatore - (the Transitions series)
Doppelgangster by Laura Resnick
Road of the Patriarch by R.A. Salvatore
Changes by...
“Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the...”
– Mira Grant — Feed p201
“Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the...”
– Mira Grant — Feed p3
May 2011
1 post
“In such politically dispiriting times as these- where we’re asked to pick...”
– from The Wailing List newsletter promoting the new Despair.com t-shirt “I Voted then I Vomited”
April 2011
2 posts
“It is not just boredom that propels my steps along paths unknown, but a firm...”
– Drizzt Do’Urden
(R.A. Salvatore - The Orc King p191)
“We’re addicted quick fixes, top ten lists, and four-hour work weeks, but the...”
– Rands
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
“I have noticed that, with each of the last several books, I have pissed off some...”
– Steven Brust (referring to Tiassa)
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
2 posts
Recent Reads (or at least since I last posted one...
Small Favor and Turn Coat by Jim Butcher — a pair of Dresden Files novels
Mean Streets featuring “The Warrior” by Jim Butcher, “The Difference a Day Makes” by Simon R. Green, “The Third Death of the Little Clay Dog” by Kat Richardson, and “Noah’s Orphans” by Thomas E. Sniegoski
Princep’s Fury by Jim Butcher — Book Five of the Codex...
October 2010
1 post
In a Strange Land
Through an odd set of circumstances, I find myself in Tokyo for two weeks, attending some training. Since I possess no Japanese language skills (written or spoken), I’m just about completely lost. The food is especially problematic since there’s bewildering array of choices and much of it I cannot identify on sight. Case in point, tonight I bought a bento from 7-Elven thinking the...
August 2010
1 post
“I kept coming back to the idea that there is a lot we don’t examine. That we...”
– Kat Richardson
July 2010
9 posts
“It’s amazing what you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre...”
– Harry Dresden Small Favor by Jim Butcher, pg56.
“A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a...”
– Snapple “Real Fact” #743
May 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many...”
– Brandi Carlile — “The Story”
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on...”
– Tim O’Reilly
April 2010
2 posts
The Drought Has Ended
It has been four years, one month, and twenty-six days since I’ve had Internet access at home.
Today, that void was filled.
And there was much rejoicing…
“If you need to have someone lay out a set of instructions for you, you probably...”
– Kurt Busiek Breaking in without Rules
March 2010
9 posts
“The things that evoke passion are the things we can’t know for certain.”
– Mamma K Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks, pg129.
“I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn’t”
– lab tech’s t-shirt The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg72.
“I’ve been recently diagnosed as fashion intolerant. I can’t wear...”
– Eddie Drood to his grandmother The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, pg65.
“He’s a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to...”
– Ben O’Farrell, a lawyer Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn, pg96.
“Death comes to us all and it is a tragedy to hasten it.”
– Ahmed Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn, pg70
Recent Reads
Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Vacation, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand, Kitty Raises Hell, and Kitty’s House of Horrors by Carrie Vaughn
Codename: Wolverine by Christopher Golden
The Man with the Golden Torc and Daemons Are Forever by Simon R. Green
Warrior and Witch by Marie Brennan
The Gossamer Plain, The...
The Movie Roll
Here’s all the movies I’ve seen since the last time I posted a list:
White Out — This was a fairly good thriller. Since I had not read the comic book it was based I wasn’t disappointed.
New Moon — (or as the theater’s marquee had it: New Moo. Perhaps they got it right.) Going in I expected it to be lame. I was not wrong. Bella is such a user.
Ninja Assassin — No...
1 tag
“The process (for me personally; and your mileage may vary) is hard to describe,...”
– Cherie Priest on how the writing starts
February 2010
4 posts
Playing Doctor
Me: I've got to do an emergency lobotomy on a PC. Dr. Boylan, you're needed in the OR stat!
Sis: Quick. Give that patient RAM stat!
Me: We're loosing the patient. Try booting from CD...
Sis: Nooo ... not a total reformat! We'll never bring em back totally!!
Me: Nurse, TOD 12:46 PM
Sis: At least we can still recycle his bits for some other needy PC.
Me: It was a Windows PC. With all the viruses I'm afraid it's not a good candidate for organ donation.
Sis: Good gawd, man! In that case ... to the incinerator with the carcass!
Me: Quick before the contamination spreads ... Someone notify CDC.
Sis: Aren't you supposed to be playing Doctor on the actual machine and not IMing?
Me: You think that'll come up at the board of inquiry? Surely it can't be a factor in the patient's timely death.
Sis: You were slacking on the web at the time, sir. It could be seen as negligence.
Me: But it was Windows XP. It's time had come. Surely I can't be faulted for that.
Sis: XP had a good run and came to be a strong and true OS. Unlike that sad, sad malformed Vista. So yes, it will be mourned.
Me: Yes, the Vista abomination should have been dashed upon the rocks at birth. If only this were SPARTA!!!
“Manila was dirty and noisy as usual. Every time I stepped outside of the hotel I...”
– Me, in an email to my sister
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair