They are stalwart drinkers and dungeon delvers ( Read more... )

I never seem to really have anything to post these days. What can I say? Life is dull. Yet here I am (at work, and nobody is in the store) typing away the remaining few hours before the clock liberates me ( Read more... )

... Thou art a dreaming thing ( Read more... )

Look at that maudlin rube in the audience! What mallady befell his temperment to bring him to this crude display? He would do better to mind these currents and rise and crash with the other waves around him.

on the screen:
"Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite ( Read more... )

There is no simpler way to say it. See those glossy black, raised letters raised off their sterile white surface. Ooh, better yet embossed flat black over tabacco stained designer paper. Ooh ooh, gold leafed across a red harboard book, with those fashionable uneven and serrated page edges hiding just behind the lip of the cover. It's ( Read more... )

I find that the developement of my professional skills is an ongoing endeavor which is continually defined by my expanding interests in technology and content distrobution. I remember seeing an interview on Tech TV years ago with the author of a book on digital distrobution and our rights in light of expanding legislation intended to controll this ( Read more... )

"What hath god wrought"So went the first message sent in Morse code, and so began the age of wires. One may call these wires the nerves to the body of civilization, as the Romans's sewers and aqueducts were its veins. It is disheartening to note, however, that this revolution occurred in a society which had yet to learn to comfort which the ( Read more... )

"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. THrow away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh, it is a blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of thing it is; air, and not and ( Read more... )

He left us yesterday

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Dan Simmons is an incredible author. It is his tendency to integrate the actual texts of the artists who have influenced him most deeply which has drawn me back to alot of texts I had left forgotten. It was in his last two books Illium and Olympos, which focus greatly on my favorite hero, Odysseus, that he exceeded all his previous efforts to ( Read more... )