I introduce to those who didn't know what I was talking about...

The Internet (formerly "The Usenet") Oracle!

As for what prompted the poll, it was a comment I made yesterday (the context of the comment is almost irrelevant):

For lo, I ponder your query, whether to novelize or to remain solely in the realm of short fiction ( Read more... )

I have a suspicion about how this poll will turn out, but I'm curious nonetheless:

Poll You Owe the Nomi-cle a Cookie

The Factor Clock

(link via cmshaw)

Yesterday, my new toy arrived in the mail, and after work (and after a couple of other things), I got a chance to test it out.

Equipment:

-- One Mac iBook G4
-- One Sony Dual-Cassette Deck (very similar to this), acquired as a graduation gift when I graduated from high school in 1989
-- One InstantMusic Vinyl & Cassette Ripper, which came with a ( Read more... )

(Please note: This is not aimed toward anyone whose manuscript I may have on my desk at this time, regardless of the stage at which you sent it to me... I've been reading too much fanfic, I think ( Read more... )

-- Staples' coupon for their Ink Sweepstakes made me giggle -- "Buy ink or toner! No purchase necessary!"

-- A minor numismatic Grrr: I've been collecting the 50 State Quarters from the beginning. On Wednesday, I got a couple of Montanas as change. However, I still haven't gotten my hands on a South Dakota-- The band Say Anything must have at ( Read more... )

From the IMDb, tangentially via dianora2, I bring you a quote from Dominic Purcell:

"I've been here for five years, maybe four. I was doing 'John Doe,' and I was working ridiculous hours on that, and I was speaking American all day and then I'd get home and speak Australian and I just felt so exhausted by going back and forth that I just decided to speak ( Read more... )

A while ago, I was yammering here about lay and lie and the misuse thereof. At some point in the comment thread, someone said that the lyrics to Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars has a lay/lie error in the chorus ("If I lay here/If I just lay here/Would you lie with me and just forget the world ( Read more... )

...I bring you Introducing the book. (YouTube link)

(link received from beckyfeld who got it from osewalrus who got it from someone I'm not sure if they have an LJ handle)

So, a couple of days ago, I was looking in my top desk drawer for an envelope of papers my parents had sent me a couple of years ago. And I found it. But, along with the envelope, I found something else -- a Barnes & Noble gift certificate (yes, an actual certificate, thus indicating that it was from a decent interval of time ago) from 530nm330hz and introverte. mabfan ( Read more... )