Fri 09 Jan 2009 – 13:21:44
Elizabeth Bear may well be right when she says that this is the best Amazon review ever. Hysterical satire. (Update: Not surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently pulled the review. Rather surprisingly, the spoilsports at Amazon have apparently put the review back up! Good for them. Here’s another copy, just in case.)
Sat 03 Jan 2009 – 20:36:09
I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions as such, but a quick review of what I read in 2008 prompted me to commit to reading the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List in 2009. grep “^2008″ ~/reference/books/read | less One unexpected side-effect of implementing GTD and swapping my pre-millennial cell phone for a Palm Treo was [...]
Sun 07 Dec 2008 – 20:16:55
Another song meme, and another realization that I have a fairly depressing music collection. If someone says is this okay you say? Rest In Peace – James Marsters What would best describe your personality? The Silence of Daylight – Konami What do you like in a guy/girl? Duality – Electrostatic What is your life’s purpose? [...]
Mon 01 Dec 2008 – 01:03:17
Variety describes the novel The Straw Men as a crime thriller about a detective brought out of retirement to solve a series of bizarre murders connected by dark conspiracy . Which makes me wonder if the intent is to make the least interesting of the novel’s three main characters the protagonist of the film version. [...]
Sun 30 Nov 2008 – 21:06:42
I followed the instructions for a meme on Elizabeth Bear’s LJ: Put your music player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title. I let the music play in the background, letting the work on [...]
