When things get to their worst, and all my ideals constructed about them crumble ( Read more... )

I hate MLA citation. Why do I always get stuck with messy crap like numbered volumes in a numbered series of numbered and titled series with individually titled volumes that is maybe also an edited multi-volume academic prepared work? MLA handbook does not cover this much layering! I have wasted too much time on this already, so I am going to ( Read more... )

I've had an itch to start writing some short stories. Three or four really strong SF/F short story concepts dropped on my brain last week, which would have been wonderful if I weren't needing to write a bajillion (estimate) things for school over the next three weeks. Why is time travel so appealing to me right now? I never cared much for it ( Read more... )

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Why is it only men that can travel through time?
Somebody needs to write Errant Daughter: I, My Mother's Mother.

I just finished Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, which I started after finishing "Fire Watch," which I read after finishing Doomsday Book. How will I survive until Blackout and All Clear are ready? (I'm really glad I discovered her.)

I read an article which several fantasy authors wrote about the books that got them started reading within the fantasy genre. C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were obvious favorites, but I was surprised by some of the other answers given. In particular, Daryl Gregory's mention of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Karen Miller's mention of ( Read more... )

Ubuntu is sluggish. Sure, it was peachy at first, but the flaws are starting to glare. Firefox in particular is awfully sluggish, and a message about taking too long to close pops up half the time I exit it. It worked a lot faster in XP, but since I don't want to go back to Windows (yet), I'm gonna change my distro. If technologies were foods, ( Read more... )

Windows Programs I Miss:
-Paint (GNU Paint just doesn't cut it... yet.)
-Soldat (Best nonFPS ever, right?)
-mIRC (Everything else is short of perfect.)
-Kega (The BEST Genesis emulator that refuses to work in Ubuntu.)

That's all I can think of now. Maybe more later.

Fair warning: really boring post that's really poorly written.
Summary: I *really* like some software that came with Ubuntu.

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