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I think I'm finally properly settled in at my new job, and I'm finally getting used to actually doing stuff 5 days a week and being in front of a computer for 8 hours a day, though I do need to work on packing lunches and making time outside of work to get other stuff done. (A lot of my other creative stuff has ground to a halt since I started...)
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Screenwipewipe
A little while ago a clip called "How to Report the News" was being passed around the internet a bunch:
As it turns out, this is from a BBC show called Newswipe. It's by a guy named Charlie Brooker, who also does a similar show about television called Screenwipe, plus a special about video games called Gameswipe. All of these are pretty amazing. He ( Read more... ) -
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Sometimes I wonder if when things start going well the world naturally starts having crappy stuff happen to return things to a baseline of overall mediocrity. Regardless, some people I care about (porku and ashi) are dealing with some really difficult stuff right now, and I just wanted to say I'm thinking about all of you guys. -
writing!
I really need to get back into writing actual stories, especially since they're not a few that I do actually want to work on, but haven't quite gotten up the motivation to really sit down and start typing. But, my carpal tunnel syndrome is acting up again, and once again I have to use voice recognition software for a while. Which is nice in some ( Read more... ) -
Venting About Vampires
As research for UFO Girl vs. Vampire Boy I've kept going through the audiobooks of the Twilight Saga. I'm partway into the last one, but I've about reached my saturation point, and I decided I need to read something by someone who knows how to put words together. (Hence I borrowed a collection of Kelly Link stories from the library.) Over the ( Read more... ) -
How It Should Have Middled
I've been thinking way too much about plotting, and especially the very bad plotting in the Star Wars prequels. Without getting too much into that, I give you, something that should have happened in Star Wars Episode III:
Palpatine: Amidala, where is the child?
Amidala: [looking away] Somewhere safe.
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100 Awesome Things
The other day porku posted a link to a blog called 1000 Awesome Things. I decided to write up my own list in a similar vein, of 100 Awesome Things. Some of mine are specific to me, but that's kind of the point. If you're so inclined, go ahead and write up your own list; I'll let you decide how many to do.
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Translator Needs Work Badly
Things have reached the point where I really need to go and find a regular job. Any suggestions ( Read more... ) -
I'm on a boat!
My new musical obsession is "I'm on a Boat" by The Lonely Island, the same guys who did a lot of SNL's best stuff over the past couple of years (Chronicles of Narnia and such). Here's the video (which has some swearing and thus may be NSFW). It's amazing as a great piece of music and for its over the top enthusiasm. There's also this great One ( Read more... ) -
The Way Home
The last day of my stay in Albuquerque was in some ways the best. Rachel and I had breakfast at a coffee shop near UNM, then met up for lunch after she got out of class. In the evening Christine and Mzy came over and we all had dinner at a nice New Mexican place, and just before we went to the airport we stopped at a pet store. Although I've had a ( Read more... )
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