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Friday, 06 November 2009

Thursday, 05 November 2009

Monday, 02 November 2009

  • Writing

    Why is that each thousand words of the final 10K words takes as long to write as the first 10K words?

    Part of the problem is realizing, as the ending, that I need a lot more support put in to make the characters' actions justifiable, but I don't want to stop and rewrite prior text until I'm sure where the ending is going to be, so I have to toss in little notes saying "Foreshadow this!" and "Come up with why they're doing this!". Part of the problem is that what the characters are doing makes some sense given the actual situation, but it DOESN'T make sense given what they'd suspect/believe/guess was the situation... if that makes sense. 

Friday, 30 October 2009

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    Unseen Academicals [Discworld Series] (Hardcover)
    By Terry (Author); Pratchett
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    Your Halloween Candy Has Witches

    It's twoo! How could they publish it on the Internet if it wasn't true?

    "During this period demons are assigned against those who participate in the rituals and festivities. These demons are automatically drawn to the fetishes that open doors for them to come into the lives of human beings. For example, most of the candy sold during this season has been dedicated and prayed over by witches.

    I do not buy candy during the Halloween season. Curses are sent through the tricks and treats of the innocent whether they get it by going door to door or by purchasing it from the local grocery store. The demons cannot tell the difference."

    There's quite a few fake-fundie sites, where people parody the extreme silliness of some Christians. I've done some checking and this one, sadly, isn't fake. 

    I saw this via friend's facebook link, and here's what I wrote there:

    There was some Jack Chick tract which stated every rock cassette comes with a demon. I keep thinking of all those long lost and abandoned cassettes, stored in boxes but never thrown out, unplayed for years or even decades, and the poor, horrible, bored, demons who are trapped in them. I mean, the demons can't leave, right, because what if someone ... Read Morelistens to the tape and the demon isn't there? (I'm not really sure what the demon DOES when you listen to the tape, but it's got to be important, since Satan doesn't have an infinite number of demons to waste, does he? I mean, can you imagine it?

    Wormwood: "Well, we lost another soul to the Enemy, boss. The demon that was scheduled to tempt him into adultery with his secretary has spent the last 15 years attached to a Beatle's tape at the bottom of a cardboard box in an attic in Bayonne."

    Satan: "Damn him!"

    Wormwood: "Well, no, just the opposite, boss. We didn't damn him, that's the whole... GLURK!"

    (Something very painful happens to Wormwood.)




Thursday, 29 October 2009

  • This Is Not My Intention

    I do not plan to post once a week. I supposed the constant drivel I write on Facebook in-between doing Actual Work dulls my posting instinct, or something.

    A small white cat has just presented me with a purple mouse. Beth can tell you more about the mouse. I have flung the mouse. The cat pursues. All is well.

    Anyway...

    Yesterday was Good. I awoke on time. I posted to mrlizard.com. I did Real Coding. (This week, Lizard enters the 1990s by learning about JDBC and factory methods!) Then, Beth and I went out for a nice dinner and a viewing of Zombieland, all paid for courtesy of Tony's out-of-date gaming books.

    Today was actually pretty good, as well. Squashed a bug, implemented some new features, and did more blogging. I have this very weird compulsion WRT mrlizard.com. As near as I can tell, darn near no one reads it -- the ~800-1500 hits I get each month are, I suspect, just bots and spiders. Nonetheless, I have this ludicrous notion that I need to keep posting. I don't know why.

    Did more WoW. Of course.

    Currently, sitting up in bed, waiting for the Trazadone to kick in. Planning on writing some more essays on races in Cret.

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