Editing Reality

I’ve just finished listening to Micah Dubinko’s Editing Reality at podiobooks. It’s a nice idea for a podcast - Mr. Dubinko had written the story for NaNoWriMo, and it needed editing. He read the book aloud, red pen in hand, and podcast the sections asking for feedback. Along with each [...]

It followed me home, can I read it…?

Every so often we get vendors knocking on our doors. Quite often they sell really, really expensive vacuum cleaners, but sometimes it’s kids selling chocolates or magazines to raise funds for a team or youth group. On one notable occasion I recall asking the kids what the youth group did, and being [...]

We Have a Dust Bunny

Growing up, I lived in a house full of animals. Three cats, two dogs, tanks of tropical fish, cages full of mice (which belonged to my older sister), gerbils (which belonged to my younger sister and ended badly), various newts, doves (ended very very badly) and a handful of hamsters (mine). The [...]

‘28 Days Later’ came from Netflix

The short summary:
Good horror, bad SF, Hollywood ending but not really zombies because bullets work.
Analysis behind cut, possible spoilers.
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So, what are you reading…

This reminds me of my 7th grade geography teacher, Ms. Callisto. (more…

Breaking News From the Onion

In case you haven’t seen this…
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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Book Talk

I just finished reading “Lolita”, which I found truly disturbing.
It was particularly interesting because much of the criticism I’d heard about the book before was that it wasn’t an issue of pedophilia, it was a matter of every character (or every major character) in the book being somehow unlikable and bringing destruction on him or [...]

Update

Just following up on my call to Judge Silkworth’s office, as I received a return call a couple of days afterwards.
If you recall that post, the weather started to get bad about 6 PM. Not surprisingly, there were no judges actually working in their offices by the time the election board decided to [...]

The System in Action

Yesterday I spent the day Enabling Democracy. I acted as a check in judge for the Maryland primary elections.
For the most part it was a very positive experience. From 7 AM to 8 PM the experience was overwhelmingly positive, marred by my own ill health… after about 6 hours my ‘recovery’ [...]

Cynical observations…

I used to feel that there were two types of friends. Those who will ‘tell you to your face’, and those who won’t. Since I tend to err on the side of directness myself, I tended to choose the first sort because, at least, I knew what their issues were. [...]