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Tweets for the week of 2013-05-19

  • Back to work. http://t.co/5QfO9P6Pha #
  • 4 of 5 stars to The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks http://t.co/sdJJ141pLW #
  • Kaylee wrote a "Make the World Better" essay; didn't understand my horrified whimper when I read the end. http://t.co/6TvgfK8Nso #community #
  • "I'm gettin' too old for this shit." Jake watches the new puppy. http://t.co/bHNq0VeSAA #
  • She Said, He Said: A Prequel – Doctor Who: http://t.co/Ecwk9g0rtE – Creepiest bit: Clara's wearing my daughter's school uniform. #
  • Best moment from last night's Trek viewing: Hearing the words "tribble" and "necrotic flesh" in the same sentence. #
  • RT @jonnygeller: #publishingvocab "effervescent prose" – overwritten
    "richly written prose" – overwritten
    "sumptuous sentences" – overwritt… #
  • Realized, discussing new Trek movie, that for someone "SO not a Trek fan", I know a LOT of Trekstuff. Ditto Marvel. Honestly don't know how. #
  • Possible I absorbed Trek/Marvel via Nerd osmosis. More likely: non-specialized Knowledge skills are really cheap in this system. #minmax #
  • "In the future, gamers rules the universe. Thank you, Iain M. Banks." I review Player of Games — http://t.co/GeDFV7x50u #
  • Twipster: excellent chrome extension. (How sad I want/need an app that "strips down Twitter's cluttered interface.") http://t.co/EFOs52wbS2 #

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Tweets for the week of 2013-05-12

  • Well, I think it's now clear I don't have a future as a lightrail operator. Also, if anyone official asks, I was with you ALL MORNING. #

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Tweets for the week of 2013-05-05

  • RT @FirstWorldPains: Facebook makes you hate people you actually know. Twitter makes you love people you've never met. #
  • "… I'm Colorado." http://t.co/qViw3rkWXp #
  • Whoops. Email just exceeded petty snark threshold for the week. Time to unplug. #

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Book Review: John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War

I’m excited about this! I’ve got another book review up at themittani.com. This one’s on Old Man’s War, which I went years without reading despite (or maybe because of) the great reviews. It took meeting John at a mutual book signing to get me to take the plunge.

One of those cool oil painting covers that has nothing to do with the story.

But that’s not why I’m excited about sharing it. Every time I write a review, I get a pile of great book suggestions from readers, and I’m looking forward to more. Greedy? Maybe. Don’t care. :)

Check it out and let me know what you think, and what you think I should be reading.

Tweets for the week of 2013-04-28

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Tweets for the week of 2013-04-21

  • RT @grimgoroth: I have a new post up on @IdeologyMadness today. I review @doycet book, Hidden Things. Check it out. http://t.co/HVQWhO7VIe #
  • RT @grimgoroth: For the afternoon crowd. My review of @doycet Hidden Things is up on @IdeologyMadness. Give it a read. http://t.co/HVQWh#
  • .@grimgoroth I *loved* the review – I don't always retweet mentions of Hidden Things -it feels a little weird – but this I want to share. in reply to grimgoroth #
  • I really don't think Max has been the same since Ruby killed their parents, but it's nice to see his spirit isn't broken. #
  • RT @michelledeidre: Can we please ask ourselves how a major American city is on total lockdown and our senate just killed a bill on back … #
  • RT @YesYoureRacist: ATTENTION, RACISTS: The Boston bombing suspects are from the actual Caucasus region, meaning they *literally could n … #

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Part gaming-related, Part writing-related, Part reading-related, 100% Nerd-related

A few weeks ago, I noticed a call for book reviewers over at themittani.com, a website that focuses mostly on sci-fi MMO gaming, especially Eve and Dust and things of that nature.

They asked potential reviewers to write up a ‘test review’ and submit a list of what we thought were good books, so they’d know if our choice of reviews was going to be terrible.

So I wrote up a review of Altered Carbon, put together my desert-island list, and sent it off.

A few days later, this:

You own. Your sample review owned, the Altered Carbon trilogy is a favorite of mine, and you’re hired.

So I got all set up, the CSS for the book review template was wrestled into shape, and today my review — the same one I submitted for the application — is up. I’m glad I got to open with Altered Carbon; it’s one of my all-time favorites and a fantastic noir-style examination of what one’s “self” means in a era of body- and clone-swapping. Highly recommended, even if you don’t play a certain internet spaceship game.

Check out the review, if you like, and let me know what you think! I’m really looking forward to doing these in the future.

 

Tweets for the week of 2013-04-14

  • It would be interesting (read: fundamental sea-change) if libraries had the same social heft as art galleries; the same backer prestige. #
  • I'm imagining that libraries-as-galleries thing: bookstores thus become like commercial art-shops. Balance shifts. Art ? Product? Hmm. #
  • Reason I'm thinking about this: I know lots of people who paint just to enjoy painting; it's okay. Far fewer writers can do the same thing. #
  • Writers writing just to write are, today, often seen as failing, because writing SEEMS more about finding audience than creating a thing. #
  • I mean, you share a story and get "Okay: who's the audience for this?" No one asks that about the puppy painting you did last weekend. #
  • I think you can write things you enjoy, and if it's good, it'll find audience. But it's hard to SEE that in today's "industry" environment. #

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