Month: October 2010
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Nano 10, and a fleeting attempt at procrastination
I am participating in NaNoWriMo 2010. I just decided this, and I have the vaguest of ideas for a book, and I really need to flesh out an outline, but I’m having trouble getting the thoughts into an outline this second, and I’m glad my copy of Call of Duty is not in the house,…
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Desks, a viewport into the mind
As a writer, I spend a lot of time at desks. And I have some strange obsession with the workspaces of writers, which is why I always seem to be snapping pictures of my desks. And every time I go back and look at it, I can tell the era and the project and the…
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Precious cups within the flower
I broke my arm in 1992. It was stupid – I was riding my new-ish bike that I bought because my Volkswagen’s brakes went out and when I got it to Meineke, they couldn’t put it on the lift because the Indiana winters rotted through the floorboards and frame, and the hydraulic arms would have…
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Begetable Bag
So we went to Daiso yesterday. Daiso is maybe the Japanese equivalent to a Big Lots or something, where everything is $1.50 unless otherwise marked, and everything apparently comes from Japan. This would obviously be a huge boon to the type of Japanophile who spends a lot of time watching anime and eating Pocky in…
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The rainy season is here
It’s almost dead quiet here, except for the hum of the HEPA filter, which we just found and got online again, and the distant hum of traffic on the 880, which doesn’t look horrible for a Friday evening, but give it another hour. The house is somewhat clean now, and Sarah is going to pick…
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iPad
I now have an iPad. Sarah surprised me with one for our anniversary, and I’ve only had a bit over a full day to play with it, but I think it’s a pretty damn revolutionary device. I had my doubts when it came out, especially because I already had a very capable iPhone for pocket-oriented…
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Goodbye to 343
The locks have been changed and we are officially out of our old place, leaving it to the realtor and keeping fingers crossed. This week, we had a crew in to patch up all of the holes in the drywall from the various Ikea crap I installed and then ripped back out, and then had…
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One thousand
This is the 1000th post in Tell Me a Story About the Devil history. When I started this experiment in 1997, I never thought about how long it would be around or how many entries I would amass. But here I am, with a nice, round four-digit number to stare at, and maybe I feel…
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Wirth nightmare
I don’t remember learning BASIC – I think the start of my programming career just happened. I mean, they’d herd us off in small groups to the grade school’s two Apple II’s and one of us would be the typist, and we’d enter 10 PRINT “HELLO” and someone would always type 10 PRINT HELLO and…
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Four doors down
We moved, sort of. I mean, everything is in the new unit, but it’s going to take a while to get set up and running. For one, we don’t have a fridge yet; they ordered it late, or there was a delay or something, and I have no estimate except for “maybe next week.” I…