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Daily Words Redux
Lunchtime and right before I leave work are apparently not-so-much times for writing. I think it's because, as Douglas Adams said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." I've been resisting writing in the mornings because I'm really a great big ginormous ditz...
Back from WisCon
High Points: Haiku Earring party: Every year Elise Matheson throws a party where you pick a pair of earrings you like, she gives you a prompt, and if she likes the haiku you write in response she gives you the earrings. My prompt was, "What Faeries Did in the...
Perfmon Link
Awesome webcast by Brent Ozar. There's more here. I'd say more, but I'm busy enjoying Memorial Day.
Happy Memorial Day!
Happy Memorial Day! Plant is going to hold their annual George Forman Memorial Cookout in your server room this weekend. Tom Limoncelli explains why here. When your pager goes off and you call them to tell them the AC failed again this year, tell them the least they...
Towards the Mountain
Neil Gaiman did a great commencement address where he talked about careers in the arts. I really related to the bits about how he considered his goal to support himself writing as "the mountain," and how he took or rejected jobs based on whether they took him towards...
Accountability
Not only am I using Write or Die, I've also started posting daily stats to Twitter. In addition to boring numbers, you get completely out-of-context sentences. You can help! You can mock when I fail to tweet! Okay, maybe not. I need positive reinforcement. I had a...
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.