Dear Moron at (317) 490-9796,
If you are calling in the middle of the night, and the person you are calling does not answer, CHECK AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE NUMBER CORRECT BEFORE CALLING BACK REPATEDLY.
I was THIS close to calling that number when I got out of bed at 6:15 this morning, but I [...]
So you may have noticed that I’ve been rather distracted recently, and my posting has been rather erratic. (Well, perhaps sporadic would be a better term; I’ve always been erratic.)
There is actually a reason for this (as opposed to an excuse).
Some of you may know what I have been trying to convince my grandmother to [...]
defenestration
Pronunciation: dE-”fe-n&-’strA-sh&n
Function: noun
Etymology: de- + Latin fenestra window
1 : a throwing of a person or thing out of a window
2 : a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office)
- de·fen·es·trate dE-’fe-n&-”strAt/ transitive verb
ADDENDUM the First
To clarify, I have only wanted to defenestrate things/people. I have yet to [...]
Blood on the Water (1992) P. N. Elrod
Okay. Now I’m starting to get frustrated. This is the second book with an unfinished story arc. It’s not quite as bad as the previous book, but it’s still frustrating.
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I’m a Nerd.
Shocked by this, aren’t you.
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Just finished updating to the newest version of MT, plus a comment spam plugin.
Let’s see if everything still works…
Other than the fact I can’t type–and I still can’t figure out why commenter information won’t save–looks like we’re okay.
Turned down the junk filter–it was filtering my comments as junk, which is a bit excessive. Although [...]
Congratulations Erin & Sean!
Politics test. Big shocker. I’m liberal.
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Don’t go see Crank if you suffer from motion sickness.
I felt ill within a few minutes. Closing my eyes didn’t help, and ended up leaving about halfway through the movie. (The nice people at Hollywood Theaters were nice enough to give me a cup of ice to help settle my stomach.)
It was bad enough that [...]
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!
(Sorry. I forgot t’ wear me pirate hat.)
Here be a very nice English t’ Pirate translator page
Doppelganger (2006) Marie Brennan
Doppelganger. Doppelganger. Doppelganger!
Okay, now you know why I picked up the book. What a fun word: doppelganger! Luckily, I looked at the back cover first, and read the blurb and found the story interesting. Because if I’d seen the front cover first I might have put the book down without a second [...]
A Spectacle of Corruption (2004) David Liss
In the sequel to A Conspiracy of Paper, Benjamin Weaver is convicted of a murder he did not commit, in a trial that was a farce of justice, as the judge all but ordered the jury to find Weaver guilty, despite the fact that the witnesses against Weaver were [...]
If this isn’t a mistranslation, then the I must say that the pope is a true politician.
…I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims.
Yes, I am quite certain that the pope is [...]
Just drug Michael to see Invincible and he actually enjoyed it.
Reminded me how much I used to enjoy watching football–except that there really is a difference between watching it on TV and being there, and Invincible really made it like “being there.”
And once again, I was surprised by how good Mark Walburg was.
Only [...]
Michelle: You can also pick up the empty cat food bag from the floor.
Michael: I’m leaving it there for the cats to play with.
Michelle: No you’re not.
Is this a male thing, thinking that a giant, empty, cat food bag makes a good cat toy? (Mind you, the bag wasn’t gaping open. There was only a [...]
Great post over at Bookseller Chick on people who use cell phones in public (especially bookstores).
Let me tell you , I’m not sure anyone understands the full horror of cell phones until they’ve spent time on a university campus, surrounded by people who Do Not Care that you can overhear Every Damn Word of their [...]
For those who actually know Andy’s brother Daniel, there is an eerie resemblance between Daniel and Edward Norton in “The Illusionist.”
See the following picture.
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If you listen very carefully, some time two or three days from now you’re going to hear a lot of yelling–all associated with my name.
We just bought my grandmother a cell phone with a local Baltimore exchange. I just charged the battery and entered all the phone numbers I knew. It’s going to be shipped [...]
Ex Cathedra (2006) Rebecca Maines
I first came across Rebecca Maine in MZB’s Sword And Sorceress anthology, with her short story “Plowshares.” That story, and ten others make up the single author anthology Ex Cathedra. As a note for the curious, ex cathedra is the term that has come to define the idea of papal infallibility. [...]
Someday, someone is going to remind me why I thought it would be a good idea to have a job working with computers.
Additionally, that person cannot be someone who calls my house for free tech support.
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