August 2009
5 posts
Never before
I’ve never been struck in the groin more often and in faster succession than this morning.
MakingOf.com interviews Jon August →
“Habits, heavy lifting, and the possibility of suck” is part 2 of an interview with Jon August about screenwriting.
Part 1 can be seen here
Warren Ellis on his writing process →
“My comics scripting process has thoroughly mutated over the years. I use pretty much any method that works, and there’s little resembling a method left. Things sometimes start in a notebook, scrawled in pencil. Sometimes, on blessed days, I’ll open OpenOffice and start writing in fully-formatted script, straight from brain to page in finished manuscript.”
Proof of a higher power
Key Lime ice cream from Grand Ole Creamery.
So. Very. Awesome.
I mean, I’m eating some for breakfast!.
Damn. Overslept.
July 2009
18 posts
“Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff”
– Wolfram|Alpha is a great resource for writers. It has an enormous words and linguistics database that writers can use for such things as word definitions, origins, synonyms, hyphenation, and Soundex lookups.
Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff
I really hate summer colds.
johnaugust.com » Popcorn Fiction →
“…an oft-delayed anthology of screenwriters-writing-fiction”
“Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version”
– Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version | vanityfair.com
The quiet weekend is over but it’s nice to have everyone home again.
I just had my first pzizz-powered nap in over a year. Very nice.
Even more cupcakes
Borbis is having another b’day party. I get more cupcakes.
How playtime is responsible for Post-It Notes,... →
“If you want breakthroughs, then give people some freedom.”
Got my Google Voice invite!
The right haircut at the right time
Having a very bad day at the office. As soon as Erin got home I made a departure. Let’s just say teething and lack of hours napped were the problem.
I made my way to the great clips by my house and spent a very nice, very quiet 15 minutes getting a long overdue haircut. Thanks Trudy, or whatever your name is, for not being chatty.
Deep Dish Workout
We’ll see how a few slices of leftover deep dish pizza will affect my workout this afternoon.
Shared items added BACK to Google Reader
After some quick thought and consideration, I think I might have found an interesting way to integrate GR sharing with the rest of my site. As Side Orders.
Removed shared items from Google Reader
Mostly because it was just a test run that got truncated unexpectedly and subsequently forgotten.
I’m still not sure what to do with that feature.
So many social networking options out there, even after forsaking Twitter.
(Although all of my Tumblr posts will be posted to my twitter account, be advised I’m no longer listening.)
An odd guilt
Hopefully I just wiped out a couple of underground yellow jacket nests tonight. And despite the fact that I just HATE wasps and yellow jackets, I feel an odd sense of guilt over laying into their home with a can of insecticide.
But compared to how much I hate the little bastards who’ve taken up residence in my backyard, it’s pretty minor.
The boy is one today. And I get to eat cupcakes tonight.
Bluehost screwed up my omnifocus
My webserver was down this morning. Not typically a big deal. But now that it’s back up, my webdisk is asking my iPod’s OmniFocus to login in order to sync the database. And when I do, it doesn’t accept it.
After resetting and retrying a bunch of times, I’ve had to revert back to synching via Bonjour. Again, not a huge deal.
But it’s wasted about 15 minutes of...
Wil Wheaton on Patrick Stewart's birthday →
I find myself enjoying Wil’s reminiscing about Star Trek stuff.
City wildlife
There is a surprisingly vibrant insect and animal population here in the city.
I saw a racoon cross my front yard the other day.
And I’m currently waging a war on two fronts against a civilization of yellowjackets.
When I moved here from the country I thought the city would be sterile.
April 2009
4 posts
Stylish surgical masks by Yoriko Yoshida →
It’s high fashion for the Pandemic Age.
Yes, trains, please. →
Note to everyone: Philip K. Dick isn't the only...
Bugs me that Hollywood can only make adaptations of Phil Dick’s work.
Bugs me more that comic publishers are starting to ape Hollywood in this respect.
Boom Studios are making a comic book of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that features the full text of the original story.
Stop it already!
August 2008
11 posts
Free H.P. Lovecraft-inspired fonts! →
9 free fonts, and for $20 you can get a ton more, including a couple based on the man’s own handwriting!
I SHOULD be concentrating on writing, but I’m busy worrying about where the hell to bus my muffin plate. Caribou lady? Where’s the bus tub? about 5 hours ago
New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 →
I find this is kind of interesting, despite my deeply ingrained phobia of complex game systems. (via Slashdot)
Wasps are the snakes to my Indiana Jones. I had a very Raiders morning as I discovered one in my kitchen as I made breakfast for Thessaly.
Dateline 1938: New Sun Lamp Held in Hand Brands... →
Why did this fall out of use? This would have been much less irritating than the little plastic bracelets with the adhesive that gets caught in my armhairs.
And what’s more important…eliminating an infant’s exposure to something that MAY cause cancer or something that’s KNOWN to hurt me?
Why, in every bag of baby carrots, is there’s one squishy one? There’s a clever life parallel to draw here, but hell if i can can see it.
Clean the Grill With an Onion? →
I was going to try this before grilling our dinner tonight, but all my onions were spoiled. Something tells me a spoiled onion wouldn’t have quite the desired effect.
Neil Gaiman writing a Batman story? I'm having... →
Two of my favorite comics writers are taking swings at writing Batman: Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman.
And my interest level is just barely registering. I guess the truth is I just don’t like Batman all that much.
The Dark Night Returns and Batman: Year One pretty much satisfied me. And they were both published over 20 years ago.
WatchThe Fold
I’m torn being happy that cheap tech makes amateur TV series like this possible…
…and being extremely uncomfortable with the fact that The Fold is what the amateurs have decided to do with it.
THE FOLD trailer.
Due to the presence of naked people…NSFW!!(via Vimeo)
July 2008
1 post
Tor's giving away free novels! →
F and SF publisher Tor’s got a pumped up blog and social network site. And they’re giving away a ton of free e-reading material until 7/27/08.