Looks like I've created a crack head... I have a friend in New Zealand, one Philippa Ballantine (check out her web site
www.pjballantine.net). She's releasing a new podcast starting, listen to it... I've heard the first episode it's good stuff.
http://www.chasingthebard.com/Anyway, I've got her hooked on pixie stix. They can't get them there. MUHAHAHAHA
Also, as I know she has Google Alerts set up, I'm not mentioning this post. I'm curious how long it will take her to find out about this.
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Another month gone by, and then some. Damn I'm lazy.
Ok if I haven't mentioned this already, though I think I have, I'm addicted to
Twitter. If you aren't on there you should be. My ID is
Gutshot, look me up. What's Twitter? Just think internet cocktail party.
So, Easter this weekend. You know what that means right? Peeps and Cadbury eggs. I need to stock up. I'm pretty much hooked this year. Worse than the last couple. I'm considering actually trying Easter turducken. That's where you wrap a Cadbury egg in peeps and shove it inside a hollow bunny.
Labels: Candy, Twitter
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Yeah, so... I kind of started playing City of Heroes again yesterday. I'd been clean for 18 months. Dammit, it's fun though.
Labels: COH
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OK, so this
Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper book is turning out to be a pretty interesting read. The only problem I'm seeing though is that the author, Patricia Cornwell, is thoroughly convinced of her theory. As such she's being something less than impartial in presenting her case, for a lack of a better way to phrase it.
Personally when I know that I'm reading something where we can never beyond a shadow of a doubt prove a point, at least not on current evidence, I find it off putting when the author presents the theory as though it were cold hard fact. I'd rather just have the evidence presented and be allowed to make my own mind up. Maybe that's just me.
At the end of the day though, I think there's a pretty damn good chance she's correct.
Labels: Books
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Well, I'm in a reading sort of mood right now. I really haven't been for the last few months but it's hit me the last few days. I guess it's the weather or the writers strike or some such. What ever it is, I've felt like reading.
That being the case, I've killed two books in the last couple of days. First was the one I'd been slowly chewing on since October (I told you I hadn't been in much of a reading mood),
Dies the Fire. All in all I can't say it was a bad book. I can say however that while the premise grabbed my attention right up front, it didn't really hold onto it. There are two or three more books in the series. I won't be bothering to read them.
The premise as I said, grabbed my attention. The general idea is that one day, technology simply stops working. No electricity, no firearms, not even steam engines. There's really no viable explanation as to what works and what doesn't but the author does a good job in acknowledging that fact and moving on. In the end it's just a thought experiment. It just wasn't one interesting enough to keep my attention longterm.
So, I finished that one up at long last and moved onto a recently procured copy of
Night Watch. Night Watch held my attention. A book of roughly the same page count as Dies the Fire, I flew through it (relatively speaking) in 3 or 4 days. Having seen and somewhat enjoyed the
movie of the same name, I enjoyed the more in depth explanation of the Night Watch universe.
I finished that up last night and almost immediately picked up
Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper. This one looks to be extremely interesting. Patricia Cornwell, the author, took all the Jack the Ripper evidence and data she could get her hands on and applied modern forensic technology and processes. She's convinced she knows who he was. I'd have to say, from what little I've read so far, it seems pretty damn convincing.
Top all of this off with a book club meeting tonight and the world seems pleasantly "booky" right now.
Labels: Books, Reading
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So I think we are going to give it a shot. My best friend, Lawboy, and I have been discussing this on and off for quite a while now and it's never gone anywhere. Now I think we are actually going to go for it. I think we are going to start a podcast. We've got a couple ideas.
I won't say what we're going to do yet, and probably shouldn't even mention it. If we end up not getting it done, well now I've got a record of our failure. What the hell...
So, wish us luck and maybe you'll actually be listening in a few weeks. Let's hope it doesn't sound like crap.
Labels: podcast
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Just like last year and the year before, and before, and before, January hits and I get cabin fever. I'm back looking at hiking, backpacking, and otherwise outdoor websites. What's more, the sun is actually shining today. Remember the sun? It's that funny little glowing ball that sometimes appears in the sky. We generally turn it off around here in the winter so having it on for a day or two is a neat change.... I need to be in the woods.
Labels: cabin fever, outdoors
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