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Light reading, part 2

Here’s the list for the last weekend of reading:

Thud! is the latest Discworld book. It keeps up the laughs (sometimes inappropriately, as I laughed at something in the book just as something really horrible happened on TV so that Otter thinks I am even more of a brute). Terry Prachett maintains a consistently high level of writing, and his development of Sam Vimes over the last few books has been well done, which continues in this book. 384 pages

Knife of Dreams. Book 11 in the Wheel of Time epic, this one makes up for the sometimes meandering storyline in the last two or three books of the series. It may in fact be a little to directed, as every chapter seems to end with “It’s all for Tairmon Gai’don, duh.” Of course, that didn’t stop me from becoming completely addicted and finishing the book at 0215. 783 pages.

The Resurrected Man is a very well done exploration of an old question: When you’re teleported, what happens to the copy? It’s lighter on the answers (no heavy philosophy stuff to drag me down, man) but heavy on the plot and ideas. Very good mystery/scifi. 529 pages

Cascade Point is a collection of Timothy Zahn’s early short stories, with some exposition by the author. It’s a good book, and you can see some of the progression that the author takes as he moves from Physics student/writer to writer-with-physics-background.

Bad jobs

Yeah, these are some bad jobs. But seriously, WGAF?

Ooops

Sometimes, real life is just too wierd:

The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

New girl in town

I may be getting a new car much sooner than planned. Apparently, the vehicle has been sitting in the dealer’s lot for almost a month, and we just got the notification paperwork today. Thanks to brilliant non-help on the part of banks and financial institutions in general, we may be able to pick it up in two days, not tomorrow. :(

Halloween sweetness

A faux blog by Barney (nee Doogie Howser) is up at the website for How I Met Your Mother. The latest post is on slutty Halloween chicks:

Halloween is just around the corner, and you know what that means: Girls dressed in slutty costumes all across the city… It’s like Christmas in October!

The puzzle at the end is cake, easy for playas like me :twisted:

Celebrating everything…

As I am driving into work today, I get a glance at a nice white banner hanging over the crosswalk at my building. Apparently, it’s time to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Congress designated each October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).

I guess since noone really pay any attention to what a month is designated as, Congress just keeps piling on the stupid names. October alone has 24 “months” attached to it. When I am King of the World, October is going to be changed to World Hotty Appreciation Month. (Click “More” to see the real name, but you chose to do it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…) [Read more →]

A little light reading

Here’s what I read over the weekend:

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. A real geek book that pulls you along to the end. The writing style can be hard to get used to, with metaphoric descriptions abounding.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The only reason I read this is that I started off listening to the unabridged CD version but it was going soooo slow. I just wanted to get everything out of the way, and boy did it ever. Nice and dark ending, perfect setup for a trail of bodies in a revenge-filled book seven.

I’m in the middle of more, but I’ll link those later.

Can’t we all just get along?

Ahh, the Californian lifestyle:

A man was arrested after neighbors reported seeing him sexually assaulting his family’s 10-year-old female Rottweiler, police said.

Ubaldo Vasquez Huizar, 39, was arrested for investigation of two counts of sexual assault on an animal, according to a statement from Ontario police Detective David McBride.

The accused child animal anythingthatmoves molester later issued a statement in support of the Democrat Party’s proposed legislation that allows convicts to vote. “Just because my penis gets stuck where it’s not supposed to, doesn’t mean I don’t think long and hard about the political issues that we as Americans face,” he said through his INS-supplied interpreter.

Smoking pipe

It’s all true, I swear.




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Courage in the face of friends

Ah, yes, one of the cut-and-run crowd has decided to make a stand finally. Too bad that it’s against friends and not the death cultists who made them run in the first place:

A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a court official said Wednesday.

In response, I write this open letter:

Juez Pedraz,

Por favor quitese de chupar la pija de los Islamofascitos.

V/R,
Tu papí