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A typical moment in the life of the Obi cat.… Read more
Month: October 2013
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Trick or Treat or Kasatochi
Appropriately enough, Kasatochi rises from the dead just in time for Halloween with some songs that, if they aren’t actually scary in and of themselves, are thematically linked to ghouls and goblins and other such denizens of the dark. I’m putting this out there a little bit early so anyone wanting to work some creepily-themed chiptunes into their DJ set has time to do so.
01 – Spooky
02 – Werewolves Of London
03 – Witchy Woman
04 – Somebody’s Watching Me
05 – Crazy Train
06 – Thriller
07 – Black Magic Woman
08 – The Raven
09 – Don’t Fear The Reaper
10 – Monster Mash + mystery bonus track
Hey, Crazy Train always scared the hell out of me. Or maybe it was just the guy who sang it. Also, here, finally, is Thriller – the most-requested Kasatochi conversion… well, pretty much ever. You people have a… shall we say… zombie-like devotion to your Thriller, don’t you?
Go to the dedicated Kasatochi page and download it for free. Do it to stop Kasatochi before it kills again!
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Rainbows
Today me and the little guy saw a rainbow as we drove into Fort Smith to take him to school…
…and we also saw one (though it was much harder to get a picture because of, well… rain) driving home…
…and it landed right on the interstate! We drove through it! Now, I could go on and on about water droplets and sunlight and prismatic diffraction and all that, but you know, as far as Little E is concerned, we drove through a rainbow. Didn’t see any pots of gold, naturally – the way my luck runs, that’s at the other end.
Not a bad day for rainbow spotting, really.… Read more
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“Go with what ya got”, part two
So, in 2006 when I last moved my all-wood computer desk into the corner to accomodate the Avid (which the desk outlived), I made a mental note at the time that the desk probably would not survive another move. Disassemble in situ, the note said, and just replace it with a newer one. I’d had the desk since 1999, when I moved back to Arkansas, so it had lived a long and useful live.
Today… guess what? I forgot that mental note. The desk disassembled itself in situ. I now have… no desk. And, helpfully, no money with which to get a new one to replace it.
So it’s time to apply my dad’s rule of “go with what ya got“: I have the long end of the old 1999 desk, sitting across the two white plastic shelf units I bought for OVGE in… geez, 2006? It’s a surprisingly sturdy setup so long as no one gives it an almighty jolt. I’m keeping an absolute minimum of stuff on it: two keyboards, two mice, two speakers, three monitors, done.
Hear me baby? Hold together. At least long enough for me to file incorporation papers for Redneck Computer Services LLC. Because… that’s what this setup looks like.
The desk, not long after installation in my apartment in 1999, so many years and computers and keyboards ago (but, amazingly, that IS the same monitor):
Farewell, old friend. Thanks for holding vast quantities of my crap for almost exactly 14 years.… Read more
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The VWORP!1 Holiday Special
Remember when we all gathered around the tube for this?
Of course you don’t! VWORP!1 isn’t a TV show, it’s a book about a TV show. But to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of that TV show, between now and November 23rd, you can get VWORP!1 for over 1/6 off its normal price.
Just go here to order and use the code below. (The code won’t work on Amazon for timey-wimey reasons.)
If you want a signed copy, drop me a line, something can be worked out and I have a few left over from convention season.
Details of Volume 2 are coming soon!… Read more
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The war on error
The NSA was probably watching me make this, and took note of the fact that I was bereft of hope. Well, okay, bereft of hope and pants.
Want to file an error report of your own? Vote next time.… Read more
Why don’t you just Kickstart it?
Two things have been occupying my brain of late: VWORP!1 didn’t do bad for itself in an ebook bundle a while back, and I had a job interview a couple of months ago that went considerably better than any such interview I’ve had over the past several years, and yet I didn’t get the job. In the course of discussing these two things with friends, the inevitable question came up: Why are you even looking for a job? Why don’t you just do a Kickstarter/Indiegogo/[insert crowdfunding platform here] so you can stay home and write books?
Here’s my answer to that question, specifically, why I don’t plan on doing it. … Read more
It’s a great pity…
…that local TV station KHBS (my former employers, so it’s not as if they don’t know a thing about me!) couldn’t think of a way to localize this story by contacting, oh, I don’t know, a local author who’s written a giant book on the subject.
The above Twitter link led to this story, which was almost certainly relayed straight from the wire service.
Still, I’m highly amused at the thought of channel 40, or even their Twitter account, running a story about Doctor Who. 😆
Now, about all this Doctor Who business… … Read more
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A page from history… sorta
As we wait for all to be revealed about the recovered Doctor Who episodes, the thought occurred to me that we have a very good record of where this search was, this time 30 years ago.
From a page in the back of Peter Haining’s “Doctor Who: A Celebration”…
Between the publication of that book in late 1983 and the discovery of episodes of The Underwater Menace and Galaxy Four late in 2011, the total number of missing episodes of Doctor Who dropped from 136 to 106.
I wonder what that number will be here in a few hours?… Read more
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tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
This will be the best Christmas ever. Fruitcakes and all.… Read more
