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A small thing that I hate about Google Chrome
Apparently unlike the people at Google, I shut off my browser sometimes. I haven't switched over to Chrome from FireFox because it complains.
Yes, when I close Chrome (with the X at the top right or with the file menu), it says, "Whoa! Google Chrome crashed. Do you want to restart it ( Read more... ) -
A nice reply
I'm still trying to figure out what "grimdark" is.
I ran across a discussion of one of Joe Abercrombie's books, over on westeros.org, about rape and rapiness in fiction.
And Abercrombie showed up.
And he wrote this, which I have extracted without permission:
Where I think I failed pretty badly is that Terez is really not a good character. She’s ( Read more... ) -
Check your fantasy novel
...at the door.
Sorry, wait, I meant "against this humourous but too truthful for contemplation quiz."
http://www.rinkworks.com/fnovel/
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The what now?
Flipping through my friends page, I misread one heading as:
Food Porn of Souls
Which it wasn't, of course. But now I'm wondering what The Food Porn of Souls isIt's probably not good for you, which is why it's called Porn (and is probably addictive, to boot). Is it like empty assurances or something else that makes you feel good in a Dunning- ( Read more... ) -
Secret RPG Confession
So we're doing a superhero RPG, and now the heroes have gone to WWII and fight bad guys ( Read more... ) -
Writing JavaScript for PDF on the cheap
So I'm creating this form using Scribus 1.4.4, and writing JavaScript for the various buttons. What I want to do is be able to extract and save one of the (three) pages under its own name. Ideally, the extracted page has none of the document-level JavaScript of the original document ( Read more... ) -
Interesting article
On fMRI studies of writers while writing ( Read more... ) -
(Lack of an) Idea Du Jour: Demonic Horses
Trying to figure out what "grimdark" is (especially when I hear Scott Lynch described that way), I've been looking at images of same.
And I see a lot of dark-clad demonic things on dark-barded horse-like things. Which, of course, immediately led me to the idea of the veterinarian for demonic horses. I'm not sure whether the vet is a real vet, or ( Read more... ) -
Doing what you love...as a job
I watch this with my ADHD boy: lots of attention and focus when he's doing what he loves, not so much on other things, even necessary things. (Current thinking seems to be that it has to do with dopamine receptors in the brain... which was a big part of Habit, by...Charles Duhigg?-I'll check and correct that later-in establishing habits ( Read more... ) -
Here's a job for George Takei
Every time I watch Breakfast At Tiffany's I am jarred by Mickey Rooney's yellow face character. I know we can't do anything about the dialogue (the character will be cartoonish) but can we shoot an actual Asian actor and digitally replace Mickey Rooney with him? Maybe sell it as a double-sided DVD, I retouched as one side ( Read more... )