Just an FYI.  I'll only be using LJ for distinctly private entries.  Everything else will go on shanesrandomness.blogspot.com now that I've figured out the best way to ... blog ( hate the word still )

I've kind of been putting stuff on the main blog if you so care  http://shanem.net/randomness/

you can't actually comment over there though :)  I should maybe fix that.   I kinda figure most of you see them on FB anyway, perhaps I'm wrong.

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We are all way over booked.   I don't know if it's actually worse now than say twenty years ago or if it's like child kidnapping statistics, just more obvious.   The fact remains though, we have more that we want to do than we can.   To make it worse it seems our minds want to do less than we ourselves want.   We easily let those things which take ( Read more... )

I wrote this by hand a while ago when I was still in Dallas, it's the first story I finished in my writing book.  There were some inconsistencies and perhaps some slow parts but I was pretty happy with it still.   I tried to smooth out some of those, but this is still very much a Draft 1, I haven't even fully reread it, but it's good enough to ( Read more... )

 Imagine there's a service that allows you to rent DVDs through the mail.   It lets you supply a list of movies you are interested in online and is 90% likely to always send you your first selection.   Let's call this service NetFlix.

Now Imagine there's a very similar service that let's you rent video games, and that they effectively copied ( Read more... )

I had the great pleasure of seeing Sunday in the Park with George this weekend.   It's an interesting love story around Georges Seurat as well a story of sticking to your guns and perhaps believing in yourself.   I got pretty decent seats, row J, though the 2nd furthest seat on the left.   The seat was fine, the closeness made up for any divergence ( Read more... )

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I've watched all of 24 from the beginning to last night.

24 gets vilified a lot, and I won't dispute it here, however it occurred to be a few weeks ago, that 24 does do something positive in the entertainment land scape.

On 24 there so far have been 2 black presidents ( before Obama came on the scene even ), 1 woman president and 1 white male ( Read more... )

I was happy to hear on last Tuesday that President Obama was inaugurated with his full name as is tradition ( Read more... )