Do you know where your towel is?
Do you know where your towel is?
I’m giving myself 17 months to finish writing, edit, and get Pause, my favorite thing I’ve ever written, published, in a project I’m calling 17 months of scary, fun, exciting things. Currently it’s at ~17,000 words. I’d like to have it ‘done’ on or near 50,000 Thankfully, 17,000 is a bit ahead of people doing NaNoWriMo, so I’ll hop in there, ditching my current craptastic WIP Outsiders. Sounds fun.
And that’s really all I have to say about that.
Heya. How’s it going? It’s been a long long (long) time since I’ve updated this. So I figured I’d start updating again, with a list of albums that I need to purchase soon.
Anberlin – Blueprints For the Black market
Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal
Everything by The Beatles <3
Capital Lights – Out Of Control
Daft Punk – Homework
Daft Punk – Discovery
Daft Punk – Human After All
John Mayer – Continuum
mewithoutYou – It’s all Crazy!…
Joshua Radin – Simple Times
Joshua Radin – The Rock And The Tide
R.E.M. – Accelerate
R.E.M. – Automatic For The People
R.E.M. – Monster
R.E.M. – Document
Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
Everything by U2 that I don’t already own.
Any recommendations?
The review’s coming, I promise. But I’ll tell you this much:
Forget what I said in my first impressions post.
Colfer took a lot of things WAY too far. 1 cow begging to be eaten once or twice (Begging, not the eating) in Restaurant At The End Of The Universe is funny, a whole heard not shutting up about how they taste so good is not funny. Also the Flaybooz. Not funny either after too many times. The Guide Notes are interruptive at best, and Colfer lacks Adams’ ability to go off on incredible tangents in all directions and bring them all back together in the end. The Vogons were not well done either.
I’ll leave the rest for my full review.
And Another Thing… is book 6 of Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy. And Another Thing… is written by Eoin Colfer (Pronounced “Owen”). My first impressions (~20 Pages) on this one are going to be a little weird, as I’m reviewing it as a book, but also, how well it finishes Hitchiker’s.
I thought it was very funny, I found myself almost – almost – forgetting that Adams did not write this one. The first chapter went through a bit of a recap of the story so far, which I found nice, because it’s been a year or two since I’ve read the other 5. But I did find that it lacked the ‘can’t put it down’ quality that the first few had, but maybe that will come back after I get farther in. I also felt that Random Dent’s character was a little off in this book, but that was the only discrepancy that I noticed. I expect the remainder of the book to be a good – if not great – end to Hitchiker’s
Every Wednesday, I’ll be posting a HowTo guide on something. Something from changing an icon, to installing an operating system
Ever plugged in a new USB removable storage device, and been disappointed with the default icon and name?
Well, by creating a small file Autorun.inf you can change the icon, name, and the Autoplay options when you plug in your device.
Since I’ve got a new camera, I’ve been taking pictures. And because of the new Duotone wordpress.com theme, I’ve decided to setup a photo blog. You can find it here. It’s where I’ll be putting my favorite photos from my Flickr photostream, so if you really like my photos (ha! yeah, sure) you can see more there.
So, I now have a digital camera (Vivitar 8690, if you care), and I need to decide where to put the photos online. Flickr? A blog here on wordpress.com, using the Duotone theme? Something else?
Feel free to try to convince me to use your idea in the comments.
After attempting (and losing) NaNoWriMo two years in a row, I’ve learned a few things. Your mileage may vary.
Again, your mileage may and probably will vary.
So that’s it. Have you done NaNo? Feel free to share how it went in the comments!
This is what it would look like
True story. Drawings by me.
