In my Firefox bookmarks, I have a “To Blog” folder, where I store links I want to come back to later and say something about. Inside that folder, there are some additional subfolders that break things down into rough categories. The most populous of these folders is the “Hate Bush” folder, with well over 125 [...]
How can you not want to read an article that includes this:
Bin Laden was “very polite and humble and shy. He didn’t like too many kisses… he didn’t mind being hugged but kisses he didn’t like and he just seemed to float… across the floor,”
and this
“I never really thought I’d be a Muslim,” he told [...]
Friday night was this month’s HGPA tournament. To make a long story short, I had a great time over the course of nine and a half hours, and made it into the money. We had two tables worth of people initially, and once elimination play got us down to one table a lively cash game [...]
Sleep in a bit.
Get up, pull on some comfy clothes.
Go to the kitchen.
Grab some fresh chives, and “dice” them into very small bits (this is actually more easily done with kitchen shears than with a knife). Take two black truffles, each about the size of the first segment of my thumb, and dice them [...]
So, one of the things I told myself I would do in 2006 is spend a lot more time writing about Bertrand Russell [wikipedia], or rather about his works, on this blog. Russell, you may recall, is one of my biggest heroes, to the extent that there are multiple images of him around the house.
Writing [...]
So, in lieu of actual content, I bring you a bag of links to audio content, both musical and book-related. This’ll be a long post.
Remember last year when a bunch of SF writers got together to prove that PublishAmerica was a vanity publishing operation, not any kind of real publisher? (See more info here or here.)
You might remember that I even bought a copy of the book they submitted–I really tried to read it, but it was so [...]
OK, I finally bit the bullet and did the upgrade from WP1.5.3 to WP2.0.1 (It feels like I just did the upgrade to WP1.5, but it looks like that was almost exactly a year ago.)
Everything seems to have gone smoothly, although I had to update a few of my plugins to make them happy. Also, [...]
Attn: Jackass who busted off my driver’s side mirror last night while I was shopping for DVDs.
Subject: You’re a jackass
OK, so you don’t know how to drive, and somehow managed to hit my car in the parking lot. Fine. I drove into a light pole once, I’m not going to mock you for that.
However, you [...]
UPDATE: MP3 links have expired.
There seems to be a lot of ‘unhappy love’ music circulating around the web today for some reason.
For instance, you might want to check out the WilL YoU BE MinE? post at the Mashup Of The Week Podcast.
Even better is Jamie S. Rich’s post today, which has a brilliant set of [...]
When I was in my early twenties, I used to celebrate Valentine’s Day by sending out my annual “Black Valentines” messages to a select group of like-minded individuals.
At the time, this was more about protesting too much. You know the story–I was single, and I hated the pressure of V-Day, so I would kick against [...]
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Number eleven, of course, is “bust a shell up in your face, yo”.
Or, as WikiNews puts it:
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter on Saturday during a bird hunting trip at a south Texas ranch.
The victim, 78 year-old Harry Whittington, is an Austin lawyer who was accompanying the Vice President on [...]
I follow the online journals of a lot of authors. One of them is Poppy Z. Brite, onetime wunderkind of the flash horror set, but lately the author of some really excellent New Orleans food porn novels. I really didn’t have much use for her early horror works, but both Liquor and Prime were excellent, [...]
…or we’ll shoot your ass off!
OK, maybe that’s not quite what they’re saying, but the news is out that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, repository of all kinds of cool science, is protected by a bank of guns that can shoot 66 rounds a second over a radius of a mile!
The guns, which the [...]
OK, short notice, I know, but I should point you guys at this:
Martha Wells: One more reminder about the Free Book contest
I’m giving away ten signed paperback copies of The Wizard Hunters, and the deadline for entry is February 15 (Wednesday). Right now there are 51 entries, so the chances aren’t bad.
If you know of [...]
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