Deathly Hallows was everything I was hoping it would be; it a makes an exceptional end to a fantastic story. I acquired the aforementioned Sunday at 2pm and finished around 11pm with barely a break for dinner.
Also in personal news, I’ve found a good use for my birthday money and part of my first Entre Prises paycheck.



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Ida Tech, a fuel cell company here in town, just called me up and asked if I’d be interested in a temporary test technician position. I’d submitted my application for the position in late April and had assumed that, after five weeks sans contact, my amazing record of not being hired was continuing ( Read more... )

I will quote imani_cpe and say Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon is “really, desperately good.” It is the first book I’ve finished in a sitting for quite some time. I would also like to point out a bunch of law students discussing middle earth. I would assume this [illegal combatants] is the ruling Sauron used to keep Gollum in Mordor for sustained ( Read more... )

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From bigoh

Once you are tagged, you must guess at the question which inspired each of the following answers, answer them yourself, and tag 5 more people.

1. I dropped a tape measure on a guy’s head when he started attacking my binder with a concrete drill
2. Everybody pronounces ‘incorrectly’ incorrectly.
3. Gibson’s Pattern Recognition4. A ( Read more... )

Meme propagation.

Paper Tiger

As bigoh would say...


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My brother is now home after graduated from Harvey Mudd. He accumulated at least as much stuff as I did, and is now busy cleaning out and re-packing is room. I’ve not seen some of those toys for a decade! Mike has also set up his desktop beside the family computer, and has been playing WoW for hours each day. This example has lead me to install ( Read more... )

Mom, Dad and I leave for (my brother) Mike’s graduation from Harvey Mudd tomorrow. We’re driving down to better transport four years of accumulation from a college dorm room, so I’ll have something on the order of 16 hours of time each way to sit, sleep and read ( Read more... )

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I just finished In Fury Born, David Weber’s revised version of Path of the Fury (one of my favorite books) and I’m pleased to say that, however much I generally dislike the practice of adding another few hundred pages to a story and re-releasing it, in this particular case I approve whole-heartedly. For the record, I started IFB last night around ( Read more... )

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