I'm noising this around because it proposes to be awesome, and I'll probably have a less stressful evening (I'll be on the clock the whole night) if there are a few familiar faces in the crowd:

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The usual disclaimer: I don't actually expect anyone who reads this to get my anything for Christmas.  We're pretty much all poor here, after all.  That said, I know some people seem to want to buy things anyway, so I might as well make it easier for them.

Books
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Mist - Stephen King
Star Wars: Thrawn Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
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I recently realized that enough has been happening in my life lately to warrant another entry.  Naturally, this means I've been busy enough to completely forget to update the ol' journal.  This, of course, makes perfect sense in the grand scheme of things.  For the sake of easy reading, I shall categorise the recent events of my life.

School
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I've had an opportunity to see some examples of the sorts of interesting things people have to mark their graves.  It really got me thinking: I should really be thinking about what happens when I inevitably die.  Fortunately, that's not too difficult.  When I die, my grave shall be marked with a ten foot tall bronze statue of me defeating an alien ( Read more... )

 In a similar vein to the Evil Overlord's Handbook, SFF.net has expanded with lists for heroes, sidekicks, bystanders, etcetera.  From the Hero's list:

30. If I have a copy of the Evil Overlord's plans and my capture is imminent, I will not send the only copy of those plans away with a cute little sidekick. I will make many copies of the plans and ( Read more... )

 The deed is done.  After an hour and fifteen minutes spent gritting my teeth in a small room in Soul Survivors and another eight hours wearing an annoying crinkly bandage, I have this to show for it:


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THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the ( Read more... )

Been in school for a few days now, and I don't appear to be freaking out yet.  This is cool.  I might do a bit of freaking out later, depends on how things progress.  I'm leaving some time free in my busy schedule for some unfettered freaking out just in case ( Read more... )

TDWG reunion happened this weekend. Quite a few of you, perhaps even the majority, will have no idea what I'm talking about. Back in the day, when I was an adolescent growing up within the Anglican church, the diocese placed a woman by the name of Catherine Pate in charge of coordinating youth ministry stuff. At the time, the diocese had ownership ( Read more... )