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App recs
I am lately addicted to Kingdom Rush and Streetfood Tycoon. KR is a tower defense game with cute little soldiers and comic-book style KBOOMs, and ST is a Lemonade-Stand type game, in which I cannot get over how happy the customers sound when they say, "Thank you ( Read more... ) -
Poetry rec
You know what else, before I forget: I recommend "A Great Clerk of Necromancy", by Catherynne Valente.*
I'm not actually sure which Hugo category you'd vote for a poem in. Short story? Related work? Probably related work. I'll have to read the definitions. Or maybe prior winner lists, see if there's precedent.
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Greetings from second-class fandom!
So today, my RSS fed me Scalzi and McGuire discussing some proposed constitutional amendments that will be voted on at Worldcon this year, during the Business Meeting.
I found the proposals themselves on the LoneStarCon website, at the bottom of the Business Meeting page, for reference. The ones in question at those two sites are "No cheap voting ( Read more... ) -
Boneshaker vs. Boneshaker
Priest's Boneshaker walks into town with a trench coat and a shotgun, and she says she's looking for her son. Milford's Boneshaker* sits on the steps to the general store, playing that old tin guitar, and she looks Priest's Boneshaker straight in the eye: she knows a zombie romp when she sees one.
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Genre definition question: Downton Abbey
We started watching Downton Abbey; we approve. We're just starting the second season now. (On disc, from Netflix: it fell off the streaming just after we watched the pilot. Apparently Amazon has exclusive streaming rights now, or will soon, or something. This further strengthens my belief that Amazon is a dick, and I wish I could invest more energy ( Read more... ) -
Things I think people should read
1. Today's Hyperbole and a Half. It's spot on as a description of depression. Especially the ... no, well, especially the Everything; I recognized all of it and giggled at a lot of it. It's refreshing to read somebody who gets the jokes. I don't know what's wrong with most of you people, nobody else seems to think all the practical problems ( Read more... ) -
zomg test
I have a new-ish tablet, and a new LJ app. One must naturally investigate how and whether these things work.
Posted via LiveJournal app for Android.
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State of the Tamma: the cheerful edition [It does exist!]
1. I got a promotion at work! Now I work in our e-resources department. It is at times bewildering, but it is awesome. The sheer scale of this shit is amazing. There are thousands upon thousands of e-books I could access! For free! (If only I liked the interface. The iPhone is too small for a web-based e-book interface and I don't enjoy sitting at ( Read more... ) -
Argh
There was a series of sexual assaults on campus a couple of weeks ago, so the campus is talking about it. It's nice that they're making noise about this being unacceptable, but I find myself depressed over some of the messaging that's coming out of it: the row of a dozen signs down the sidewalk, each with its own little tidbit of advice. Find ( Read more... )
