Category: Books / Novels / Writing
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Shopping Trip
Got a suit, a 20 GB hard drive, and couple history books on our trip down to Tally today. Resisted spending a lot of money. Got a great break on the suit. Apparently Ultra ATA and ATAPI are not compatible. Hopefully I can acquire an adapter. I got A History Of The Arab Peoples and…
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Cover Art
Got the Macadoo picture for Mac. Will drop the film off for developing this afternoon. Have to pick up the roll from last week. Why is it that the cover artist is so difficult to find on a book? You have to know to flip inside the cover and scan the credits page to even…
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Reading For the Pictures
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. –George W. Bush
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Poul Anderson
First Douglas Adams, now Poul Anderson. Some of the most reknown Science Fiction writers are passing left and right. *sigh* Means they will publish commerative collections of their works that I will have to buy.
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Nausicaa
The movie adaptation of this book, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds turned me on to Anime back when almost everyone thought cartoons are only for kids. Of course I was 9 when I first saw so… 🙂 Who else beside obviously pimply-faced, glasses-wearing, SuperNerdz would know who Jeri Ryan is? Not that I am saying that…
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Art to Flying
“…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
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Deals
Don’t I feel silly… boought this book Web Client Programming With Perl for about $15 on the bargin table. The recommended price is $30. The publisher has made the book available under their Open Books Project. A few good books are available there. Okay… I admit it… I am an advertising junkie. I don’t watch TV for…
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HOWTO: RTFM
Due to some email server issues, my home page at this time is not available… Should be back some time this morning. Everything is cool now… *whew*! Here is maybe my new favorite site… Science Fiction and Fantasy World with a review of the start of the A Song of Fire and Ice series A Game of Thrones, A…
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The spirit and intelligence of man is essential
I’ve typed up a long quote that I really like. The parts best liked are bolded. Let us now discover more specifically how he [man] is the image and likeness of God and what is the standard or criterion by which he can be measured and estimated. This standard can be no other than the divine…