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Thursday photo, with rain
This is not the best picture I ever took, but it's my first try at capturing one of the pleasant experiences of living here. It's a very, very rainy Thursday in Seattle, and intermittently quite windy, too. A branch of the tree outside my living room got pressed up hard against the glass, pinning accumulated raindrops right there.
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Writing on the iPad: me and my apps
This post owes a huge debt of thanks to Rob Donoghue in particular and various others for comments and suggestions in recent months.
The key to successful writing on the iPad, I find, is to know what it is you need, and what you're comfortable with. As a gaming writer and occasional fictioneer, I work with simple formatting - my text doesn't get ( Read more... ) -
WoW There's your Ironman right there
Someone beat the challenge. WoW-knowledgeable readers may have fun looking at his Armory entry. A little commentary ensues.
Kripparian is a troll hunter, and it's not surprising in the slightest to me that a character of that sort would be the first to do it. I think I commented earlier on the advantages any hunter gets, starting with the pet, a ( Read more... ) -
Book log side comment: who is this, anyway?
I've been thinking more about that topic of "things a person of this sort wouldn't say/do" and "things that only a person of this sort would say/do". Bracketing examples ( Read more... ) -
2012 book log, #8: The Stand, by Stephen King
I had this in the brand-new audiobook version of the unabridged edition, read by Grover Gardner. Just under 48 hours. Wow.
A few words on the reading first. Gardner's excellent. He's been in this line of work a long time now, and he's really mastered the craft. The Stand is a book with a very large cast, and he distinguishes them all. Not all the ( Read more... ) -
WoW: World of Peacecraft
The sudden popularity of the Ironman challenge approach to WoW has had the side effect of reviving interest in other kinds of player-chosen challenges, too. While browsing links to threads about them, I came across reminders of players trying pacifist leveling, which is just what it sounds like - going through the game without killing anything. ( Read more... ) -
WoW: I am subjunctively Iron Man
Hey, it's a WoW post, for the first time in many months.
So here's the deal. Last year I just plain burned out on the thing. I think their developers have gotten into some very bad habits, and the constant reshuffling meant re-learning a lot of things just to keep playing, and that's a drag. I felt like raid design was getting more and more ( Read more... ) -
Just when you least expected it...pictures taken while I walked!
It has been a while, hasn't it? But since the end of the sustained soil mold whammy a few weeks ago, my blood pressure's down dramatically, my overall health is up, and, yes, I've been out for a few walks. Today I took along my camera, too.
Cautionary note: If you have arachnophobia, you may want to not look below the cut tag. Among other things, ( Read more... ) -
Gateway test #2
This is just a quick test of the LiveJournal mail gateway plus
Blogsy 3.3. In this case it's the original mailing, resubmitted from
Gmail.
All is well, citizens. Return to your homes. The post does not die
at this time.
Now to send it...
...and see what happens!
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A request for comments
Below the cut tag is the text of one of my recent Something Wicked blog entries. I'm trying out the post-by-mail interface for LiveJournal. Would you please take a look at it and leave a comment telling me if it displayed as my entries usually do for you, if links worked, and like that? Thank you kindly.
( Yonder lies kilowords of zombie-related rumination. )