Last Friday I went to a midnight release party for Breaking Dawn with Lenneth and Johan (who kindly drove us, and Lenneth’s niece, down to Redding for the occasion.) I spent the evening finishing the last third of Eclipse, watching cute little emos!!!! people drift around; at midnight we picked up our copies and headed [...]

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For the past eleven days, I’ve been in temporary possession of the greatest book known to man — okay, known to me, in light of certain research I am doing, Ruby & Sapphire by Richard W. Hughes. This is for me, a tome of great knowledge; simply the most complete treatment of ruby and sapphire, [...]

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Not all, mind you… there’d have to be additional ponies PWNIES with rock hammers, spaceships, books and writing accoutrements to cover most of it, but, well, I need this shirt:

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I just re-organized all my Amazon wishlists and consolidated quite a few of them into four broad categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Manga/Anime and Music, DVDs & Misc. I’ve picked up so much fiction that it deserves a list by itself. Some of the other stuff is better combined, and trimmed down a bit; I expect to [...]

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I ran across Rands last month via Daring Fireball. It was amusing to rediscover him (via Johan) today via an explanation of the nerd environment (from last year) and yesterday’s thorough explanation of the nerd, in general. What got me the first time, however, was his excellent post on gel pens.
Anyone who has seen my [...]

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Yay! Finally I have Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards book. *___* It’s a great read so far, although me reading it is kindof like preaching to the choir… but at the same time it’s extremely gratifying because it’s all stuff that Johan and I, and Elrohir and Lenneth, have been ranting about for ages, and [...]

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So yesterday I was surfing around (in my idle yet obsessive new habit of checking TFL.org every few hours in the hopes that they’ve opened the form) and I thought, “Well hey, maybe they have a moon listing or something, since that’s what I dig, y’all.” I checked, yes they did. Only it sucked and [...]

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