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Weekend Roundup
This weekend I did two things that I'd been thinking about doing for a long while, but had never really taken the plunge on before ( Read more... ) -
Board Games!
Had an epic night of board game playing last Saturday - it was supposed to be getting together for a game or two, but I hadn't played any board games in around 6 months, so it ended up being this incredibly long evening. We gamed until two in the morning.
We played:
Zombiegeddon - I won this in a raffle at a gaming thing last year, and was ( Read more... ) -
CBC - geek haven?
So, my son's been going through a phase lately where he'll sleep really well ... as long as he's in somebody's arms. This has led to a few Saturday mornings where I've gotten up fairly early and had a sleeping baby on my chest, so I end up watching TV.
Fun fact about Saturday morning TV: it is, generally speaking, a bit of a wasteland of fishing ( Read more... ) -
Dads matter! As long as they're French?
Three months into being a parent, the gender politics of parenting continue to amaze me. Most new fathers I know want to be active in their child's life, and most of them are comfortable doing things that previous generations considered "women's work", such as feeding and diaper changing and that kind of thing. Still, the "daddy daycare" attitude ( Read more... ) -
A bit of a dilemma ....
In a My wife and I have reached a bit of an impasse on something - usually with parenting issues we end up on the same page, but on this issue we've become polarized. We were discussing Star Wars, and could not agree on which order to first have our son watch them in. I know that it's still early days, and that there is still plenty of time to ( Read more... ) -
Lost: A Theory
I've managed, over the past few years, to get out of the habit of making predictions while watching Lost. This isn't due to a lack of interest in the show - it got fairly bad for a bit in season three, but has been really consistently strong in the past couple of seasons. The problem with making predictions, though, is that they keep adding new ( Read more... ) -
Of possible interest to some of you writerly types
http://pyrsf.blogspot.com/2010/02/opening-floodgates-pyr-now-accepting.html
Pyr books, a fairly big name in SF/F publishing, has starting accepting unagented manuscripts in certain circumstances:
"Unagented submissions: Email submissions ONLY-and ONLY in the subgenres of epic fantasy, sword & sorcery, and contemporary/urban fantasy. No horror, ( Read more... ) -
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Interesting article on Big Bang Theory ( Read more... ) -
If I Had 1.0*10^8 pennies ...
I hadn't been playing guitar at all since the baby was born - there just seemed like there was always something else I should be doing, or that the baby was sleeping and I didn't want to be making noise so as to not wake him. I missed playing, for sure, but felt it was just one of those short-term sacrifices I had to make, and that in the months ( Read more... )