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Ubuntu Hardy, the morning after.
I woke up--slept in, 'cause I was up late upgrading--wandered over to the computer, and pressed the power button. It ran through the startup process into a black screen. Meh. Luckily, escape at the grub menu, running the recovery mode, and picking xfix solved my...
*chews fingernails*
One of my other machines is busily upgrading from Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) to 8.04 (Hardy). I did both a full backup and a backup of home first, just in case anything ends up hosed. Yikes. No, I don't live dangerously. 😉 Sadly, Ubuntu has discontinued their PPC support....
Feminist ramblings.
Someone recently asked me how I became a feminist. Let me set the scene for you. I'm ten years old, living in Ogden, Utah. My father is stationed at Hill Air Force Base, and I'm merrily exploring hitherto unimagined depths of unpopularity at Horace Mann Elementary. As...
OMGYAY! “In the Water” sold!
My story "In the Water" will appear in an upcoming issue of Fictitious Force!
So, where’ve you been, Katherine?
Pretty much working, exercising, and writing my novel. And nagging my sister to put dog pictures on Flickr. I think the world needs more pet pictures, don't you? Isn't that an Avenue Q song? "The Internet is for Pet Pictures"? Current novel wordcount: 48,828. We've...
Congratulations! it’s a novel.
My novel-in-progress is over 40,000 words. Yay, it's a novel! It's not a complete novel, mind you. In fact, it's a half-complete novel. But it's 40,000 words, and a girl needs milestones.
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.