"When I saw each frame as a unit I remembered something from my youth: as a young person I could completely concentrate on each frame of the comic book. I could see every line and gesture as if it were part of a sole painting hanging in the center of a blank wall. This, I thought, might be what separates me from my younger self. Now I look at ( Read more... )

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The stereotype for a blog (and specifically a LiveJournal) is the post that shows up every 8-10 months, lamenting that they haven't written in ages and oh how embarrassing that is. And then nothing else for another 8-10 months.

As I do not enjoy being a stereotype, I made sure to get a couple of actual entries in before committing the sin of ( Read more... )

Regarding my last entry, Ryvre said it made her brain explode because it drives her nuts when people say there's no good television being made any more - when the medium is vastly superior to where it was at, say, 10-15 years ago. I agree, actually, and clarified that I wasn't saying that; what I meant to get across was that in the last year or ( Read more... )

This past Spring - I'd guess March or April, looking back at the calendar - I was going to write a journal entry titled "The Continuing Lessons of Time". I never did, of course, precisely because of those selfsame lessons; i.e., when you're so overcommitted and so overextended that you've lost all your free time for a significant and lasting period ( Read more... )

So, yesterday Peter left for London, where he'll be for the next two weeks. As he's not visited before, he asked for recommendations on where he should go and what he should see.

Well, sure. Why not ask me to talk about one of my favorite things ever ( Read more... )

Death by Chocolate: Redux is a bizarre collection of short stories. See, one day this guy was visiting an unusual chocolate factory when he fell into the vat ... and emerged as a man composed entirely of chocolate. And who can turn anything else into chocolate with a wave of his hands. Now he works as FBI Agent Swete with his partner Anderson ( Read more... )

So. I finally read this book. At least 12 years after I really should have ( Read more... )

Look, the thing about living in a city is that we're ALL living in the city. Sometimes there ain't enough to go around, and you deal with it in a mature and acceptable manner. If you can't, get out of the freaking cityBecause it's snowed again, and if the forecast is to be believed, it will snow a LOT ( Read more... )

Wait, what??

Hard drive space has now become so ridiculously inexpensive, that it's possible to buy a 1TB hard drive - that's ONE THOUSAND GIGABYTES - for $100?!?

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*looks at current hard drives, totalling 120G*

*anticipates a new investment*

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