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And so it begins...
NaNoWriMo is here. I'm participating for the first time, this year. It'll be interesting to see if I can reach the 50k word mark. It'll also be interesting to see if I can finish it within the month. -
Odo reads Poe
I had an awesome night last night. Isaiah Sheffer of "Selected Shorts" fame hosted a program of Edgar Allan Poe readings. His guests were Rene Auberjonois and Fionnula Flanagan. The readings consisted of both short stories and poems--a few lesser known works, but mostly his famous stuff like "The Raven", "The Masque of the Red Death", and "The ( Read more... ) -
InCon
Just got back from InConjunction today. It was my first time going. I'm not sure what to think about it. Not only was it my first InCon...it was my first convention where I didn't have to work. I met with friends...made some new ones...went to panels and discussions and events. Since it was my first time at InCon, I hung with gaelbrady and ladystarblade quite a ( Read more... ) -
This is just....wrong
Watch out you Sting and Beatles fans! Songsmith from Microsoft has re-written some old classics for you ( Read more... ) -
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As long as I was doing blog-quizes, this one caught my eye:
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Funny, the first time I took it, I got:
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Politics *sigh*
I like Barak Obama. I like his ideas. I like his energy. I like his style.
I don't like how people seems to have handed him all their problems and are saying, "Well. We've elected the best leader. Now it's time to sit back and wait for things to get better." He's been put on a pedestal. Never a good thing. Already the Smithsonian is ( Read more... ) -
In for a sheep...
"Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage*, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow."
*or hope to be someday, or were once, or etc.
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Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player
Published by Joel November 22nd, 2006 in Ask Dethroner, Games, Sex, Women.
Someone from Nerve.com asked me if I played D&D and if I’d be willing to participate in their “Sex Advice from a…” column. (The theme, this time, being “…from a D&D Player.”) I just got an email from her editor saying “we ( Read more... ) -
Stopping, Pt. 2
In considering the difference between “quitting” and “giving up,” there are some judgmental implications of each. I approached them, but didn’t actually cross the line and address them in Part 1. I didn’t want to complicate things too much with a potential hot button interpretation.
In denotative terms, “can’t”, “cannot”, and “can not” mean ( Read more... )