Via the Frogman.
Tweets for the week of 2013-05-26
- Back to work. http://t.co/6oVM2lDvFx #
- What we're reading. http://t.co/tIBVOguwEM #
- RT @questingvole: Word of the day: "Feague: to put ginger up a horse's fundament, to make him lively and carry his tail well." (Grose, 1785) #
- RT @johannthors: The single best thing about the last Game of Thrones episode was the lack of any scenes featuring Theon. #
- Inbox: 0. *blows kazoo* #
- RT @GregStolze: I hate to play favorites, but it's havarti. Sorry edam. You had skin in the game, but havarti just wanted it a little mor… #
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(I'll be continuing to use a hard G, by the way. "Jif" doesn't make any sense: Graphic Image Format has a hard G; why should it change when it turns into an acronym? Clearly I feel strongly about this issue. :)
The name sounds like a Penny Arcade joke, but like De, it still seems to point at…
The name sounds like a Penny Arcade joke, but like De, it still seems to point at a perhaps temporary subgenre that speaks to me. I feel like Joe Abercrombie lives here, with all his really nice book covers. There's something to be said for authors taking back what's supposed to be a derogatory term.
» Blog Archive » On Grimdark: or popup subgenres on the greater froth of story
Grimdark: what is it? I had no idea until recently, other than it pisses off authors who are labeled with it. So I looked it up. This turned out to be a bad idea, because it’s a bigger subject than I should probably get into at six-thirty in the morning on a school day with a cheesecake to drop …
I feel your pain, Snoopy.
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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