Obviously I’ve not been very motivated to write much lately. I’m up to my elbows in Cryptonomicon and loving it, so that’s been eating up much of my free time. But today I updated several parts of the site, most notably the ebooks page, where I’m rolling out a better layout and feature set for… Continue reading Gradual
Month: September 2003
Matrix Revolutions Trailer
The theatrical trailer for “The Matrix Revolutions” is online. If you got the bandwidth, I recommend the big version.
Bye bye, UPN
As reported on bend.com and confirmed on our local cable provider BendCable’s website, BendCable has dropped UPN entirely. Apparently BendCable didn’t want the competition from a new UPN-affiliate that’s scheduled to launch here in January 2004. So, they got pissy and as of now, UPN channel 12 is off the air. The only show I… Continue reading Bye bye, UPN
How to Win a Barfight
Another fun little tidbit reprinted from a friend’s daily “Survival” calendar. Most state laws stipulate that you may use sufficient force to stop the attack, but you may not deliver any sort of punitive retribution to your attacker. Knowing this may save you a costly trip to court. Attack the most sensitive areas of your… Continue reading How to Win a Barfight
Not Your Father’s Sesame Street
When you have young children, you get exposed to a lot of children’s television programming, well beyond the Muppets and Sesame Street of yesteryear. Most of these are good, educational, well thought-out and well written shows, perfect for kids, but if you watch too many of them as an adult—as I do—you begin wish you… Continue reading Not Your Father’s Sesame Street
More Fun Links
A large part of the process of writing, I think, is just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks. Doesn’t matter if you’re writing online content (like blogs), or fiction, or news, or whatever. Anyway. Some more fun links from around the Web. Tha Shizzolator is another one of those goofy translator sites, only… Continue reading More Fun Links
A Few Things
So yeah, I haven’t been able to think of anything to blog about lately. Sue me! Anyway, here’s a few things: Stealth Disco. I’m behind the curve a bit on linking to this, but who cares? It’s definitely out there. Something I could see myself doing back in the day. Garth Ennis’ Marvel comic “Thor:… Continue reading A Few Things
Comic Book Rant
This rant is something I mentioned here some time back, and I’ve been mulling it over in my head for a while now; if you’re not interested in comics, then you can safely pass this up. It’s one of those highly geeky topics that make many people shake their head in bemusement whenever it comes… Continue reading Comic Book Rant
RIP
Passing of an American legend: Johnny Cash dies at 71. Much more suprising, no less tragic, John Ritter dies at 54.
New Cory Doctorow Ebooks
I’ve just added six new Palm Reader ebooks to my ebooks page that are really short stories from Cory Doctorow’s new book, A Place So Foreign and Eight More. There’s still one more short story I need to convert, and then I’ll combine them all into one big book download. Enjoy. And thank Cory!