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Facebook
I suppose I should say that I've got a Facebook account. People can friend me if they wish. I like my blog posts to FB, too, which is why I haven't posted anything here in a while. So if you want to read my stuff - ha! I know! so vain! - you should FB me. ;) -
A touch of Three Kingdoms
I just got done reading Three Kingdoms - all 2000 pages in microscopic type - and here's the short verdict: it is one of the greatest novels ever written. In terms of scope, drama and economy of language, there is probably none finer, and is populated with wonderful characters: Zhuge Liang (aka Kongming) and Cao Cao at the top of the list, but ( Read more... ) -
"I can't be blamed for how you interpret things"
This is a form of argument, almost always seen on the Internet though I have seen it used in real life, too, that really annoys me.
Because, in short, yes you can be blamed for the response of your words. Almost everyone uses words to provoke a particular or range of responses in their audience. If I say, "Fuck you, asshole!" I can't really get ( Read more... ) -
Taoists are assholes
. . . in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There are some spoilers, here, FYI ( Read more... ) -
Okay, maybe I have a little more to say about Avatar
As I've probably mentioned, good movies and bad movies - for me - have one similar point: I dwell on them. The key difference is with a good movie, I find more reasons to like it. With a bad movie? I find more reasons to dislike it. Guess which one Avatar falls in? So on this sunny Memorial Day, I will pour out my thoughts ( Read more... ) -
The problems with Avatar
We just saw Avatar and rather than go on and on why I didn't like it, I decided to cut to the chase:
To sum: "Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." -
Exercise!
Every Friday for a month, I've gone up in weight in every exercise and done perfect sets. Today, that came to an end, though only barely. I have wondered why I've gone up so fast, but nothing really sticks. I hope to go up quite a bit from here, but if I went up at the rate I've done over the past month, that'd be +260 pounds in every exercise a ( Read more... ) -
One religion better than another - fantasy stuffage
One of the most vexing things about fantasy writers is . . . a lot of them seem to think that one form of religion is better than another. This is deeply interleaved with Celtophilia and I am Celtophilephobic (tho' a fair number are also, of course, Christians slipping their religion in as "the best"), but too many fantasy writers seem to think ( Read more... ) -
Kitchen timer
Kitchen timers are curious expensive. But since I needed a stop-watch, well, I got one of those, instead, and am using it as a kitchen time (as well as a stop watch, to be fair, so I can more precisely time workouts) and . . . a twenty-five dollar stop watch is about the same cost as a fairly cheap kitchen time, except it does more and is water ( Read more... ) -
Also not letting it go: there are differences between radical atheists and Christian fundamentalists
As an atheist, one of the most confusing things about being an atheist is the hostility of people who . . . basically agree with atheism ( Read more... )
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