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Books

Twilight? You mean the ELO hit?

December 8, 2009

Before about six months ago, I had never heard of Twi­light.  Now I see it every­where.  Between Linda Mercury’s analy­sis on of the arche­type of Bella (and actu­ally, her whole series of posts loosely titled “In defense of Twi­light, even though I hate it”) and Lucy Knisley’s dis­til­la­tion of each book into four-panel comic strips […]

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Kindle versus paper: a pictorial

October 18, 2009

I have had a Kin­dle for a few months now and really enjoy it.  I have been read­ing like I’ve never read before!  The size and con­ve­nience are great and, for many texts, far out­weighs the longevity and space require­ments of paper books (even though I love hav­ing shelves and shelves of book spines to […]

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The hidden cost of the Kindle: computing glasses

September 16, 2009

So it turns out that there is a hid­den cost to the Ama­zon Kin­dle.  I have been read­ing quite a lot more in the past few months.  A typ­i­cal week­day rou­tine might have been star­ing at com­puter screens all day at work, com­ing home, doing a few chores, help­ing out with din­ner, then watch­ing a […]

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The little details, like hyphens and em-dashes

September 15, 2009

As you may or may not know, I got myself a Kin­dle a few months back.  To be more spe­cific, it was the Kin­dle DX — a bit more expen­sive, but the big­ger screen and native PDF sup­port was more than worth it in my case.  My thought at the time was that it would […]

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1984 goes down the Memory Hole

July 19, 2009

I’ll be blog­ging about the great time I had at ARGfest soon, but this par­tic­u­lar bit of news was just too laced with irony to pass up…
I do not know if you have read the biggest piece of irony in recent (or per­haps ever) tech news but in case you have not, let me sum­ma­rize.  The […]

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Comments from all over (Virtual Kindle Style)

July 3, 2009

When the blog was the only out­let for typed thoughts and shared com­ments, every­thing got posted here (or, tech­ni­call, over at Live­Jour­nal, as that was my blog long, long before I moved it here.) Now that we have Twit­ter and Face­book and what­not, those thoughts get scat­tered through­out the inter­nets.  In an effort to […]

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Gunnerkrigg Court

April 5, 2009

I think I have come to the con­clu­sion that any rec­om­men­da­tion by Andrea Phillips is going to be some­thing I like.  This con­clu­sion is wildly drawn from exactly two dat­a­points, but I stand by it for now.  Sev­eral months back, she men­tioned Escape Pod, a pod­cast of sci­ence fic­tion short sto­ries, and I have been […]

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Ex Libris

April 3, 2009

As a kid, I was for­tu­nate enough to grow up in a house­hold that pro­moted read­ing.  From a fairly early age, my ele­men­tary school had occa­sional book fairs and a sort of monthly book club.  In fact each month, all of the stu­dents of a par­tic­u­lar set of grade lev­els would get a cheaply-printed color […]

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Weekend Not-So-Madness!

November 30, 2008

This week­end, I did noth­ing.  I didn’t even leave the house!  Okay, well tech­ni­cally, I went out­side to refill the bird feeder and take out the trash, but I never left the prop­erty.  Instead, I holed in and fin­ished read­ing Anathem.  I was about 100 pages in on Wednes­day.  By Thurs­day night, I had gotten […]

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In which I become a young adult for a week

June 12, 2008

So I picked up Lit­tle Brother and Cathy’s Key last week.  I guess this is where I get to be a Young Adult for a lit­tle while.  I have to admit to being a lit­tle sheep­ish at shop­ping in the Young Adult sec­tion of the store.  I started read­ing Lit­tle Brother, and even at my […]

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The Affected Provincial’s Companion

June 8, 2008

I picked up a book called The Affected Provincial’s Com­pan­ion a few weeks ago.  This was a book that was indi­rectly rec­om­mended on some steampunk-something-or-other.  While not directly ‘punk, it does a great job of cap­tur­ing the more for­mal and stuffy neo-Victorian atti­tude.  It is a guide­book of attire and behav­ior that is writ­ten tongue-in-cheek […]

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Historic Photos of Portland

May 7, 2008

As I men­tioned before, I find myself the owner of a book enti­tled His­toric Pho­tos of Port­land.  I guess they have a whole series with var­i­ous cities in the US.  I’ve been mean­ing to pour through it for the past few weeks, but between busy weeks and busy week­ends, I never had the time.  The […]

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