Archive for November, 2007

Nov 30 2007

Friday Random Ten CXXXIV

The “November’s over already?” edition.

Friday Random Ten

  1. Solomon Burke - [Don't Give Up On Me #03] Diamond In Your Mind
  2. Beirut - [Gulag Orkestar #03] Brandenburg
  3. John Vanderslice - [Emerald City #03] The Parade
  4. Maudlin of the Well - [My Fruit Psychobells #04] The Ocean, The Kingdom And The Temptation
  5. Ours - [Distorted Lullabies #05] Miseryhead
  6. Live -…

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Nov 29 2007

Tech punditry is hit or miss

In Don Reisinger’s case, it’s miss. I’m struck by the inanity of his recent article about Vista, even though I might agree with it in theory.

But I digress. Although Windows XP running Service Pack 3 is almost twice as fast as Windows Vista running SP1 and major hardware manufacturers are still…

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Nov 28 2007

The Undertaking

Thomas Lynch • The Undertaking The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 1998
Pages: 224
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№56

My reading The Undertaking is all Lauren’s fault. I had, surprisingly, never heard of Lynch until she mentioned him, and then I was struck with a morbid curiosity for what a third-generation funeral director (they…

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Nov 26 2007

The New Time Travelers

David Toomey • The New Time Travelers The New Time Travelers by David Toomey
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Year: 2007
Pages: 320
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№55

I’ve always been fascinated with time travel. Or time in general. When I was about 11 or 12, I wrote a series of three short stories that centered around time travel (one…

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Nov 23 2007

Friday Random Ten CXXXIII

The “Stuffed” edition.

Friday Random Ten

  1. Regina Spektor - [Begin To Hope #01] Fidelity
  2. Änglagård - [Epilog #06] Saknadens Fullhet
  3. Pineapple Thief - [Variations On A Dream #05] The Bitter Pill
  4. Ben Christophers - [My Beautiful Demon #06] Sunday
  5. The Tea Party - [Splendor Solis #11] The Majestic Song
  6. The Smashing Pumpkins - [Machina #04] I of the Mourning
  7. The…

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Nov 19 2007

id est ‘a poem about hands’

a five-legged creature, violently still
upon a binding chord of minor keys,
befitting major locks,
has with its muted exhortations
	cloven wax from wick		and
		rue from blight		    and
		sea from salt.
a leaf of flesh, its tangled skein
	scrying spring while lined with rime,
	a piquant son of deciduity…

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Nov 16 2007

Friday Random Ten CXXXII

The “No, seriously, TGIF” edition.

Friday Random Ten

  1. Symphony X - [Symphony X #01] Into The Dementia
  2. Silverchair - [Young Modern #05] Those Thieving Birds (Part 1), Strange Behaviour, Those Thieving Birds (Part 2)
  3. A Hawk and a Hacksaw - [A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangar Ensemble #03] Serbian Cocek
  4. In Flames - [Clayman…

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Nov 14 2007

Elephants on Acid

Alex Boese • Elephants on Acid Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
Publisher: Harvest Books
Year: 2007
Pages: 304
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№54

People have done some pretty weird things in the name of science. In my wide and often random reading, I’ve already read about a couple of the experiments that Boese covers in this…

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Nov 14 2007

Leaving 9Rules

A month late, sure, but better late than never…

Some of you remember that I joined the 9Rules network a while ago. At the beginning of October, 9Rules members got an e-mail advertising a new membership agreement.

After talking it out in Clubhouse, we made participating either in the private member area…

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