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Help the Project auction
The fannish auction helptheproject is closing early Monday morning and there are still items with low bids or no bids. For example, there's a pair of Coraline-themed Nike Dunks with no bids ( Read more... ) -
My Google-fu is weak
Cheap solar-powered calculators are a dime a dozen (well, actually about $15 for a dozen). Cheap digital countdown timers are also easy to find. But cheap solar-powered timers? As far as I can tell they do not exist, even though they seem like a really obvious product. -
Coin-operated nostalgia
I forgot to mention DisneyQuest. This is a big building in Downtown Disney which is devoted to videogames and virtual reality things, such as an area where you can design a roller coaster and then ride on it in a simulator. The special passes we got included a bunch of "Fun Visits" (good for DisneyQuest, the water parks, and Pleasure Island), so we ( Read more... ) -
Escape from Happy Mouse Kingdom
We are back from a week at Disney World.
Executive summary: It was hot, but not unbearably so, except on the 4th. It was crowded, but not unbearably so, except on the 4th. Rides were ridden. Shows were seen. Some decent food was eaten.
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In the unlikely event that anyone interested hasn't seen this already...
Robert Asprin died yesterday.I read quite a few of his Myth books back in the day; I stopped eventually when I thought they got too involuted, but the earlier ones are likely still fun. (Think Xanth, but without Piers Anthony's assorted creepy obsessions.) I still re-read the Phil Foglio adaptation of the first book occasionally ( Read more... ) -
More Match it for Pratchett
I have not put anything else up for auction as yet, but others are selling a copy of Terry Pratchett's rarest book (Once More* With Footnotes) and a number of items from the collection of George R. R. Martin and Parris McBride - the latter include a bound galley of Good Omens and some signed limited Martin items. The auctions can be found here.
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Books for auction - Match It For Pratchett
I am auctioning two books on eBay as part of the Match It For Pratchett effort:
The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, signed limited edition
Excellent books (it's an omnibus), highly collectible. Well, it's being reprinted in October, but without the art in this edition, and who can wait until October.
The Chronicles of Master Li and ( Read more... ) -
This will be all over the net any minute now...
But since it's not yet - I have it on good authority that Gary Gygax died yesterday. Apparently he had been ill for some time. -
More book commentary: Snake Agent
I suppose I might as well keep up posting about what I've been reading, since I've been reading some new (to me) authors recently. In addition to the aforementioned Matt Hughes, I've been reading a lot of Robert Charles Wilson (I'll comment on his books later), and I read this one book by Liz Williams, Snake Agent. I had heard a few good things ( Read more... ) -
An unsolicited followup to my last post
I read The Spiral Labyrinth and it was good, as I expected. So, I can recommend all of Hughes' Archonate books with a clear conscience. This is, also as expected, not the ideal book to start with, since a fair number of references are made to events from Majestrum and the Hapthorn stories in The Gist Hunter. Hughes does a fine job of explaining ( Read more... )