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Tags: politics
Tone of babble: grumpy

I've just received the bound proof of THE KING OF THE CRAGS, Stephen Deas' sequel to his debut dragon fantasy THE ADAMANTINE PALACE, which has sold extremely well for Gollancz since its publication earlier this year, as well as rights being sold in the US, Germany and elsewhere before publication.

This one comes from Gollancz in trade paperback next April, with the mass-market paperback of ADAMANTINE PALACE preceding it in February.

Fantabulosa!

Tone of babble: busy

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Tags: politics
Tone of babble: disappointed

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-11-25&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

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Some moron just tried the Facebook "mugged in London" scam on me. Transcript follows. Name of friend redacted for privacy reasons.

( Friend: Hey Terence... )

Tags: facebook, my life, scams

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Tags: atheism

I love the Muppets so much :D





Question: Who is your favourite Muppet? Well?

I got several. I love the Swedish Chef, Animal and Gonzo. And Fozzy. And Miss Piggy. And...

Tags: geekdom, i haz a happy, squee, the shiny, videos
Tone of babble: dorky

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Watch the video on this page:

http://gizmodo.com/5411657/obamas-plan-to-help-next-generation-science-geeks

At the 1:50 mark is the following great quote:

"As president, I believe that robotics can inspire young people to pursue science and engineering. And I also want to keep an eye on those robots in case they try anything."
— Barack Obama

Current stats:

Words: 5,017.
Total words: 90,318.
Reason for stopping: in the middle of the big boom in chapter twenty-three. BOOM.
Music: this week's episodes of NCIS and Dexter.
Lilly and Alice: taking up a physically improbable amount of space on my feet.

I...um...yeah. So I have this thing where every day, I put any specific writing goals for the day on my to do list. Because the to do list is my lord and master. Right now, every day, I'm putting "2,000 words, DA" on the list, and every day, I'm checking it off before plowing onward for another few thousand words. Why? Because I have hit the point where I literally can't stop. I eat, sleep, breathe, and dream this book. I inhabit this book even when I'm not working on it. I'm spending half my time (or more) in a fictional reality full of madness and monsters and manic dance numbers breaking out in the middle of nowhere. This is normal for me as I approach the end of a first draft. It really is. But it's been a while since I did this part, and it's making my fingers hurt.

90,000 words means that I'm 15,000 words, give or take, from the end of draft one. I realize I've been hitting that data point a lot, but um, holy crap, end of draft one. This is the book I started on a whim. The book I never lost enthusiasm for, but shelved repeatedly while I worked on things that had actual deadlines. The book that, let's be serious here, kicks off a new series. I needed three of those, right? They're like cats. You're not a crazy cat lady until you have more than four (even if Margaret says that by 2014, mathematics prove that 80% of all books will be written by me).

Also, at my current rate of speed, you won't be getting these updates for all that much longer. So there's that.

Soon, I hope to explain to the people who've only read Toby why, exactly, I felt the need to spend my time in a universe filled with cryptozoologists in skimpy outfits, asbestos blondes, ketchup milkshakes, ballroom dancing, high heeled shoes, and, of course, talking mice. And my answer to them will be, in no uncertain terms...CHEESE AND CAKE!

Tags: cheese and cake, discount armageddon, incryptid, word count
Tone of babble: accomplished
Soundtrack of babble: The TV, and the cats being chirpy.

I think I neglected to link to this last time around, and it was brought to my attention again -- and it's sequels. It's simply lovely: samples from Carl Sagan's Cosmos (and a chunk by Stephen Hawking) pitched and woven into a piece of music.


Also, "We Are All Connected" featuring Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson and Nye and "Our Place in the Cosmos" featuring Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, and Jastrow.

The home site for this project is http://symphonyofscience.com/ . Downloadable MP3s are available there, for free.

Tags: music, sci, video

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<3 ZzZzZzZzZz... --Kaja <3

If you haven't already (and thanks to those who have!) - vote for your favorites here

but I didn't get online for the dog and pony show till after 8. Couldn't handle what would have been 8 hours of online conference calls with one 15-minute break and one half-hour break, especially since I had other work to do and am only supposed to work 8 hours a day.

Boss canceled one of the meetings, so there were two half-hour breaks.

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After the meetings (ended at 2:00 or so) I picked up a prescription at Kaiser, then went to Fry's for a router and some network cables. Went to the office and did some work/play with the system, chatted a bit with a couple of co-workers.

Home, set up the router, I'll wait till tomorrow morning to test the VPN connection since everything else looks fine. TiVo found its wireless address immediately, which was a problem actually because I hadn't even changed the DHCP addressing scheme, so the address it was assigned had to be revoked twice before I was able to assign it the one I wanted. It's a D-Link N/gigabit router, white with pretty blue lights. Very pretty, which is what really matters, right?

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Plans for tomorrow:
Dentist appointment
Work (have me a doc or two to read)
Stay out of grocery stores

( Notes from today )