I think I dropped a previous Meme… well, this time I saw it before it got stale :) Thanks, Amber! -Start Copy- It’s very simple. When this is passed on to you, copy the whole thing, skim the list and put a * star beside those that you like. (Check out especially the * starred ones.) Add the next number (1. 2. 3. 4. 5., etc.) and write your own blogging tip for other bloggers. Try to make your tip general. ...
My laptop came installed with Windows Vista Home Premium. I tried. God, how I tried. But I am sick to death of it. I can’t find anything. In the name of security, it squirrels things like screenshots away where they cannot be found – not by its “search”, anyway, which refuses to look everywhere even if you choose “Everywhere”. You can find things by hand that search will never show you. ...
Whilst playing EvE Online today, it occurred to me that SF book authors are missing a real savings, book-cover wise, by not just finding a good screenshot in EvE and using that for their cover… Why, if more people did that, we could have books like… hmm… There’s a big seller for ya. Who wouldn’t buy a book by someone named Spock? One woman’s tale of reaching middle age and coming across a nest of Kilrathi in Beta Sector…! ...
‘Twas near the eleventh hour of yesterday before the Owl dropped a package at my door. “I hope you have your reading glasses!”, quoth she, unusually talkative (for an Owl). I tapped it twice with my wand. “Capsa Adaperio!” The box flew open Inside was the tome for which I had waited so long, as well as an advertisement for a Muggle cinema and a flyer for Microsoft Vista, undoubtedly placed there by a Death-Eater in the employ of Owl Mail. ...
News in Nature that researchers at the University of Alberta have made their checkers program, Chinook, unbeatable. For any possible move in a game played against it, it can look up the best move. The best anyone can do against it is force a draw. However, the best it will be able to do against a knowledgeable human opponent is also a draw, since all a checkers master has to do is find a way to draw against it, and just play that game whenever they face it. So paradoxically, by finding the best moves, it has made itself weaker – by becoming predictable. ...
Hi. I am writing this with my eyes ckised, U canb’t be sure something I have written won’t spoil the ending of the new Harry Potter boiok or me. It’s a real damger – seems everywhere I turn, people are eager to tell me things I do not want to know yet. For all I know, this very post could be full of tons of spoilers. So, until Saturday, these eyes are staying CLOSED. ...
Just trying to bring some class to this place. C’mon, blog hits!
Thank you for all your kind comments and emails. It’s a surreal experience, losing a parent. I knew him all my life but I don’t feel I really knew him at all. If I could rewrite history so I never moved to California and could have spent more time with my parents and my family, I would. The past few months, since I’ve moved back to New England, have been some of the best. Getting to know my father again (though so briefly), being able to spend more time with my sisters, who, despite years of pleading, stubbornly refused to move to California (yes, Hillary, I finally did remember you lived in SF for a time :P But then you moved away!) Seeing cousins that were great friends when I was a kid but now only see when someone dies… The week I spent in New Hampshire was like living in some alternate present in which I’d had the sense to stay near my family instead of moving 2700 miles away. ...
My father passed away last Friday. He had been battling a brain tumor for two and a half years, and through most of it was active and healthy and able to continue on nearly as normal. The tumor, though, would take bits away – a word here and there, until near the end he could hardly be understood. A terrible punishment for a man of great strength, intelligence, and humor. ...
I’ve just gone through and updated my blogroll. Some dead blogs are now gone, and a lot of new links from people kind enough to link here have been added. I read all their blogs and should have added them to my blogroll a long time ago :P Â