Yeah, I know, I'm way behind on movies, what can I say? So I just finished watching Hellboy II, and it was pretty good. There was one major thing that bugged me though, the part where (spoilers) Hellboy rescues the baby and defeats the giant forest god thing, and... the cops and the lady whose baby he rescued turn against him because something ( Read more... )

... and delivers any insults with exquisite courtesy.

Like, for example, this letter, from Jourdan Anderson, an American citizen, freed from slavery by the defeat of the Confederacy, to his old master Colonel P.H. Anderson, in Tennessee, upon the latter's writing to invite Jourdan back to his plantation to work as a laborer. Jourdan's wonderful ( Read more... )

[6:12] GUYS I'M WRITING THIS ON A COLOR MONITOR. THAT IS ALSO A TV.
[6:12] YOUR WORDS ARE IN COLOR. AWESOME.
[6:13] Lucky. My dad won't buy the first edition of anything.
[6:14] Sweet.
[6:15] TheBeav: Did you know you have brown hair? IT'S IN COLOR.
[6:16] Cool. Hang on, air raid siren. Stupid Leo down the street's in Civil Defense and ( Read more... )

The grey goo multiplied exponentially,like we'd long feared it might, if it got loose. It started out slow, but when each nanite builds another, they don't have to move far. It went from a baseball to a room to a building in half an hour, and in the next half hour had disassembled the entire city. Guns, bombs, any attempt to stop it was just ( Read more... )

Every time I go to write a paper these days, I always end up wishing I could make things links to relevant information. Which I suppose footnotes and references can do, but it's not the same at all.

What happens if the author of a story and the narrator of the story start fighting?

"And now is when you gloat about how simple your plan was and how no onecan stop you now ( Read more... )

Part 1 ( Read more... )

Nothing. I'm not even sure of an idea yet, and I had class and then lunch with my girlfriend then my last day of work at the bookstore.

Maybe I should do a mystery novel.

With dinosaurs or something, because I'm an unrepentant geek.

Hmm. It's that time of year almost, isn't it?

I have no idea what to write. Maybe a mystery. Or something pulp. Or a near-future sci-fi thing. Or something with giant monsters. I could do a real honest-to-goodness superhero story. Or I could write a Deep Meaningful Piece of Real Literature.