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More reading…
My mother-in-law had a copy of Neuromancer, so I picked it up and read it while I was hennaing my hair today. The beginning really suffers from all of the people imitating it over the years, but it picks up. Pretty cool. 20 paws and an ethernet cable up. 😉 Tonight...
Wow. 1000+ words!
And they're good words, according to the S.O. Much, much progress on the time dilation story. All the chunky bits of exposition worked in non-chunkily, and mainly the denoument to go, I think. Heh. He still wants to kill the antagonist. Hopefully she's interesting as...
Things to do instead of writing.
Download and install Microsoft.net framework. Install Slug, a client for Movable Type. Play with Naturally Speaking. Read Meet Me at Infinity. Take bath. Pet cats. Drink too much diet Coke. Put feet up. Maybe I should just take the night off.
Fiction I’ve read recently:
Racoona Sheldon, The Screwfly Solution James Tiptree, Jr., The Women Men Don't See Joanna Russ, When it Changed Tim Pratt, Little Gods Okay, I actually read Joanna Russ' story in a college science fiction course and reread it recently. I still enjoy it as much as I...
My New Job
The new job is definitely of the good. I go forth, I restore order to the computing universe, and I leave happy people in my wake. Best of all, I'm not trapped at my desk forbidden to go to lunch or dinner or home for 72 hours at a time. I walk around campus. It's...
Fun with software (not adventures in procrastination!)
Several months ago, I got a cheap copy of Dragon Naturally Speaking, but then my computer died. I installed it today. In fact, I'm using it now. I thought it would be fun to use with Final Draft to write scripts, but it doesn't really recognize my voice very well yet....
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.