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What’s Happening?!
I was reading through an article on lifehacker.com the other day which really got me thinking again about my goals. My updates have been sporadic at best and I have always convinced myself that it was because I didn’t know what to write about. I have actually started a couple of pieces between now and my last post but either discarded them or left them collecting dust in draft purgatory. The afore mentioned article has given me a better outlook on what I should be doing. I have often discarded writing that I thought was irrelevant or just plain bad, but I have come to the realization that most of what I write WILL be bad. There’s just no way around it. Instead I will now try and take some sadistic pleasure in exposing my audience to what amounts to literary offal. Excited aren’t you? Read the rest of this entry »
Social Butterfly
…though you could hardly call me a butterfly; the similarities end at the expression. I don’t know that you could describe me as social either. Two months without a post? Ridiculous. I have been doing things though. Look there’s a Faceborg widget on the site now! I owe my friend Ranvis for the requisite number of Likes to get a real page name. You know, instead of some ambiguous alphanumeric gobbledygook like www.facebook.com/uR461An7L053r. I think that might have actually been my identifier prior to the proof of 25 friends! You have to hand it to the man who hijacked his friends accounts; thanks Ranvis! I have threatened my own friends on Faceborg that they won’t receive my witty updates unless they “Like” Nerdtopia, since I switched my twitter feed to stream to the Nerdtopia Faceborg page instead of my personal page. Their loss! Read the rest of this entry »
The Boy Who Didn’t
Let me start by saying that this is not really a book review but more a review of the sensationalism that has followed this series. From movies to merchandising, the Harry Potter franchise has made enough money to nearly unseat Star Wars from its throne. Something has nettled me beyond the fanboy rivalry of my inner nerd. To say that I have harbored a mild amount of animosity against J. K. Rowling would be a mild understatement. My reaction to her Carnegie Hall announcement might have been a little unfair, but at first I had only seen the quote out of context. I still remained a little miffed, not because of the statement itself, but rather the aftermath. I don’t consider myself a homophobe, but I am biased. I was not particularly fond of the idea of explaining to my son why it mattered if Dumbledore was or was not gay. For those that will so passionately defend Rowling, was the revelation of Dumbledore’s sexuality so necessary to the story? Obviously she would have included it to begin with were this the case. So there’s really the crux of this whole issue. It doesn’t really matter, or rather it shouldn’t. Read the rest of this entry »
In Which I Reconsider Quantity Over Quality
To be fair it hasn’t really seemed like four months since I last wrote. That’s not entirely true. There was this draft about Colbert visiting the Hill, but it didn’t come out right. Delete. In my defense, I’ve been a little busy. You see, there was this wedding thing in August which led right into being notified that the place we were renting had been foreclosed upon. Swell. We had a little over a month to find a new place, pack up our junk, and move. Through what can only be divine intervention and a lot of family support, we got it done, and we are mostly unboxed and ensconced in our new lair. It’s a bigger place and has a garage which has already been dubbed storage. I would have to park across the street anyways as there’s only enough room for one car. A general sense of excitement can be attributed to having a deck which means I may now don some barbecue mitts and wreak flaming havoc on unsuspecting meat. All in all, it could be worse. Wait did I mention I need a new job? Yes during the great house debacle, our team members were delivered “reduction in work force” letters. Granted there has been a stay of execution, but the day looms ever closer. There have been some leads and a couple of interviews, but no word yet. Read the rest of this entry »
Something Old…
At the peak of my WoW addiction the guild I ran with was full of very creative fellows. I’m not sure when it began but someone wrote up one of our weekly encounters into a nice little prose narrative. Soon whenever there was a particularly memorable encounter someone from the guild would write it down. The humor doesn’t translate well outside of the guild, but I’m sure any player could commiserate with the experiences. With that in mind I felt I would share one of the pieces I wrote after one of our early attempts at a Strat run. I came across this while trying to figure out an easier way of bestowing the torture I call editing upon my dearest. Punctuation has always been my bane and she manages to coral my commas into a somewhat cohesive semblance. Though she’ll likely tell you there’s really no hope for me.
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