Browsing the blog archives for November, 2009
Remember when I reviewed Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs awhile back? Because of that review (I suspect) I received an email from his media team. The email told me about the author’s upcoming book, complete with a book trailer. If I were a few years younger, I would have been skeptical about book trailers. [...]
I reviewed Google Wave a few days ago, as some of you may remember. After five days away from Wave, I logged in and discovered that I had been invited to several Waves, including a NaNoWriMo wave for my region and a Sudoku wave that may or may not eat my spare time and my [...]
I hit the end of my second NaNoWriMo novel, Adventures in Wrimonia, today. It clocked in at 58,008 words, giving me 131,014 words total for the month of November.
Apparently I’m still in denial, as the file for my novel is still open. Now what, I think? I’ve gone above and beyond this month, shattering my [...]
The term feature is used loosely here.
I was skeptical when Twitter announced a Project Retweet. Why fix what isn’t broken? Sure, I had to copy and paste what I wanted to retweet, but that was just a little annoying, and after downloading the Twitter client now known as Echofon, right clicking and clicking Retweet put [...]
Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. I hope today was a day of bonding with your loved ones over stuffing your faces and food comas.
Happy very late Thanksgiving to the Canadian readers out there.
Happy Thursday to everyone else. Regular posting resumes tomorrow.
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I received a Google Wave invite a few days ago and decided to try it out. I watched the goofy video from Doctor Wave, which lagged to the point that five minutes later, I had watched one minute of video. My Internet connection may be less than excellent, but it isn’t that terrible either despite [...]
I returned to my parents’ house on a Thanksgiving visit today. My bed is gone, of course, as it’s in my current place of residence. My makeshift bed for the weekend is a folding bed that my grandfather gave me as a kid.
Sometimes you really do go back to your roots.
(Come on, after interning, traveling, [...]
Unless you don’t like shrimp, in which you’re probably saying, “Eww, Sushi, why would I want one of those?” Fine, you can have a shrimp free dinner. But for the rest of us…
The Helpful Orgs and Sites forum of the NaNoWriMo site promises us “A map of the parts of the world where amateur novelists [...]
Today I passed 100,000 words total for NaNoWriMo and learned that RoughDraft could count the total word count of all open documents, thus saving me the time of using the calculator to add the word count of the current novel to the word count of the novel I finished in two weeks.
For those who don’t [...]
A few days ago I discussed my alma mater’s strange views of their alumnae’s technical knowledge. As I enjoy doing when I am frustrated about something, I mentioned my malcontent on Twitter, making sure to mention my alma mater in the tweet. Within a day I received a direct message from their account telling me [...]