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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Death of Superman
Probably one of the best fan-made videos deconstructing a comic I’ve ever seen. Excellent review of the WTF moments in the Superman comic, Death of Superman. Tweet
More writing underway!
The Winter Writing Festival has been a big boost to productivity. I’m not writing as much on the fiction as I would like because of all of the role-play related writing I’ve been doing. Still fiction but kinda a mixture … Continue reading
Progress on Winter Writing Festival!
Score! I’ve been working on gaming material in addition to the short story, Ride Softly. Play-through of newly written material is worth five points. Monday we had a gaming session and a play through. Definitely a work in progress because … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Gaming, Writing
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Music by Devotchka and Alt-J
A good friend of mine introduced me to Devotchka’s music last year. The band quickly became one of my favorites, next to Elbow. Elbow has a live albums played with a symphony orchestra. It is stunning. Imagine my delight when … Continue reading
Playing “Telephone” with lyrics and translation
CDZA took the lyrics from Fresh Prince of Bel Air and ran them through Google translator to see what happened with the lyrics. I love stuff like this. Tweet
Posted in Geekitude, Just Silly
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Fog in the fields
The weather was perfect at the barn. We had a nice quiet ride (more on that in another post). At the end of the evening, the fog settled over the pasture. Evenings in Tennessee always looked like this, but it … Continue reading
The way “real programmers” do things…
Because I’ve been in conversations about emacs versus ed versus VI versus VIM vs pico… and have laughed at how everyone had some tweak that they could use to do anything. Regular expressions rule! Tweet
First day’s goals met
Some how 500 words or so seems like such an easy goal. And I did it. I wrote 620 words tonight on Ride Softly. I could go more, but I find myself shifting out of the lyrical writing style and … Continue reading
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Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival
One of the ladies in my writers’ group at work belongs to the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood. She let us know about their Winter Writing Festival, and it sounded like a perfect opportunity. I’ve been wanting to get back into writing … Continue reading
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Random reboots fixed?
For the past several months, I’ve had a disconcerting issue with my iMac. The iMac randomly tries to log me out. My old Mac Mini, which has been retired to the household media server, never had this problem. Googling the … Continue reading