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Tantalizing. I would love to see a novella or a series of short stories written about this world. Has lots of potential.
Commented Feb 15, 2011 on HUNTER is here. at WWdN: In Exile
HUNTER is here.
Hunter is a short Sci-Fi story set in a dark and desperate world. It is just about 2500 words, which is about the length of a story you'd read in a magazine. I'm not really sure what the appropriate cost is, so I'm experimenting with the Pay What You Want model that seems to be working really we...
Technology hasn't made us stupid, but it has made us all into system administrators.
Commented Jan 18, 2011 on technology makes you stupid at WWdN: In Exile
technology makes you stupid
It's been over 80 for the last few days, and I'm going up to Portland for the rest of this week to see my sister, so I took advantage of the warm weather and went for a run yesterday afternoon. My brain quickly tuned out and started working on this story I'm about to publish, so my feet went the...
Cool old test pattern! Reminds me of the old days when all we had was a B&W TV and I'd get sent over to the neighbors to find out what colors things were in Star Trek. (The original series, of course!) Oops, gotta go, I hafta check the tubes in my TV. One has gone bad. Anybody know where I can find a tube tester?
Have a great vacation!
Commented Jun 19, 2008 on wil's summer vacation at WWdN: In Exile
wil's summer vacation
I am on vacation with my family, and I'm not especially motivated to do a whole lot of blogging. Regular posts will resume in about a week.
Cool old test pattern! Reminds me of the old days when all we had was a B&W TV and I'd get sent over to the neighbors to find out what colors things were in Star Trek. (The original series, of course!) Oops, gotta go, I hafta check the tubes in my TV. One has gone bad. Anybody know where I can find a tube tester?
Have a great vacation!
Commented Jun 19, 2008 on wil's summer vacation at WWdN: In Exile
wil's summer vacation
I am on vacation with my family, and I'm not especially motivated to do a whole lot of blogging. Regular posts will resume in about a week.
Cool! Time Out is certainly a great, classic album but the version of Take Five on the video has, I think, better solos than the album. Very enjoyable; thanks for posting it.
A bit of obscure trivia. Blue Rondo a la Turk, the opening track, was covered by The Nice several years later (titled simply as Rondo); Keith Emerson was in The Nice before he joined ELP. I'm amazed they reissued all this stuff from The Nice. I thought I was the only one interested in it.
Commented Jan 19, 2008 on joe morello is a god at WWdN: In Exile
joe morello is a god
Take Five and check this out: (This is from the classic jazz album Time Out. Video via Indie Laundry)
Cool! Time Out is certainly a great, classic album but the version of Take Five on the video has, I think, better solos than the album. Very enjoyable; thanks for posting it.
A bit of obscure trivia. Blue Rondo a la Turk, the opening track, was covered by The Nice several years later (titled simply as Rondo); Keith Emerson was in The Nice before he joined ELP. I'm amazed they reissued all this stuff from The Nice. I thought I was the only one interested in it.
Commented Jan 19, 2008 on joe morello is a god at WWdN: In Exile
joe morello is a god
Take Five and check this out: (This is from the classic jazz album Time Out. Video via Indie Laundry)
Yeah, that's pretty cool. But charm spells don't exist in the real world, and at some point Nolan will realize that D&D Girl, or someone else, will like him, without the effect of a charm spell. Now THAT will be cool.
Commented Sep 26, 2007 on that's why i said i relate at WWdN: In Exile
that's why i said i relate
On the way home from school today, Nolan said, "I think D&D Girl likes me." "Oh?" I said, "Really?" "Yeah," he said, "I think it's because I cast a level three Charm spell on her." There are few things more joyous for a parent than seeing yourself reflected back at you in your children, and thes...
Yeah, that's pretty cool. But charm spells don't exist in the real world, and at some point Nolan will realize that D&D Girl, or someone else, will like him, without the effect of a charm spell. Now THAT will be cool.
Commented Sep 26, 2007 on that's why i said i relate at WWdN: In Exile
that's why i said i relate
On the way home from school today, Nolan said, "I think D&D Girl likes me." "Oh?" I said, "Really?" "Yeah," he said, "I think it's because I cast a level three Charm spell on her." There are few things more joyous for a parent than seeing yourself reflected back at you in your children, and thes...
That was a great keynote, Wil. I enjoyed the audio that came out a few weeks ago, and I enjoyed it again watching this video snippet just now.
Commented Sep 26, 2007 on a little PAX video: NES at WWdN: In Exile
a little PAX video: NES
I just came across some video of my PAX keynote: This is me talking about the first time I played NES, with my brother, in a department store. It contains what is probably my favorite line of the entire keynote. I watched a lot of video from PAX while I was supposed to be working on my GiR t...
That was a great keynote, Wil. I enjoyed the audio that came out a few weeks ago, and I enjoyed it again watching this video snippet just now.
Commented Sep 26, 2007 on a little PAX video: NES at WWdN: In Exile
a little PAX video: NES
I just came across some video of my PAX keynote: This is me talking about the first time I played NES, with my brother, in a department store. It contains what is probably my favorite line of the entire keynote. I watched a lot of video from PAX while I was supposed to be working on my GiR t...
Wow, the Tom Vu meme still lives! Do I get the women before or after I spend time in jail? :-)
Commented Jun 26, 2007 on internet jesus' crooked little vein at WWdN: In Exile
internet jesus' crooked little vein
Warren Ellis has a new book coming out, called Crooked Little Vein. Publisher's Weekly calls it a "snappily paced homage to William Burroughs's Naked Lunch." If that doesn't get your inner Mugwump ready for a trip to Interzone, he posted a piece of Crooked Little Vein in his Live Journal rece...
Wow, the Tom Vu meme still lives! Do I get the women before or after I spend time in jail? :-)
Commented Jun 26, 2007 on internet jesus' crooked little vein at WWdN: In Exile
internet jesus' crooked little vein
Warren Ellis has a new book coming out, called Crooked Little Vein. Publisher's Weekly calls it a "snappily paced homage to William Burroughs's Naked Lunch." If that doesn't get your inner Mugwump ready for a trip to Interzone, he posted a piece of Crooked Little Vein in his Live Journal rece...
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