I have had some posts in the queue, but I also have plans to upgrade and do some other maintenance tasks. Stay tuned.
I have just cancelled my account with the game [A Tale in the Desert]. I really liked the game- it had a fresh interesting approach, a Linux client, a non-linear style of game play, and was just fun to play. The graphics were pretty good, the sheer amount of stuff to see and do was impressive, and the online community was extremely helpful and friendly.
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, written by Susanna Clarke, read by Simon Prebble.
I have just now finshed the listening to the twenty-sixth and final disc of this series, and would have gladly listened to another twenty-six had I been presented with the opportunity. This book combined the magical and the ordinary even more convincingly than Gaiman’s [Neverwhere].
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Toonlets.com has an awesome retro [tribute/commerical spoof] of Frankenberry and Count Chocula. Love it!
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Short version: Entertaining read that hits the graph somewhere near the intersection of Middle Earth, Harry Potter’s England, Alice’s Wonderland, and the alterna-worlds of William Gibson novels.
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#3 on this year’s [Popular Science] list of worst jobs in science: Kansas Science Teacher.
This job was rated worse than other notables:
#10- Orangutan-Pee Collector
#7- Semen Washer
The UNIX commands “find” and the combo of “tar” and “gzip” are powerful commands I use quite often. What actually happens, especially in the case of tar/gzip, is that I use them almost daily in shell scripts I have written for one purpose or the other. When I try to use “find” or create or extract .tar.gz archives on the command line, I sometimes end up taking a couple tries at it, wrestling with the proper syntax.
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If you haven’t managed to catch one of the NPR web broadcasts of live music from the 9:30 Club, there are two more upcoming reasons to wander over to the [All Songs Considered website] and sample the goods.
10/21: [Son Volt]
10/24:[Death Cab for Cutie]
[Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena] Whole lotta stuff here, this site best perused when you have a few minutes to spare.
Some of the illusions are so strong that even after I know what is happening, my eyes are fooled into thinking something else. Also nice in that color-blindness is not much of a factor here.
