Updates for the week of 2009-09-20

  • ROTTWEILER ATTACK! (http://j.mp/ajfPI) – Monday blahs? Watch this. #
  • 22 Tools You Should Keep in Your Car (http://j.mp/o3Tym) – Bookmarking for a shopping list. #
  • Adrift: After checking Deidre’s course (perfect) and Jon’s system repair (three months early).. http://bit.ly/1cNCzd #
  • Celebrated Darwin biopic can't find a distributor in the US, producer blames creationists (http://j.mp/xeKxD) – <b>hangs head in shame</b> #
  • New class is done – feedback was good. #
  • The perfect city (http://j.mp/Lx7Bt) – The theory he puts forth would mean the midwest w/should be a vast freakshow. Sadly, not true. #
  • Sometimes, I dream that my grandfather shows up at my first book signing, and he's really proud. Then I wake up. That part really sucks. #
  • I do not write from an outline; never saw the point. This batch of revisions is changing my opinion; you outline-writing people are smart. #
  • Adrift: – mw. mmph. hnh. ngggh. whzzt? gnnghhhh! wha? what What WHAT! Why… noise. Tired. Why….. http://bit.ly/kKzij #
  • Can't find a non-Mac index-cards-on-corkboard story layout tool, so I'm buying some actual index cards. And corkboard. #takethatscrivener #
  • Going to @jonathancoulton on Friday. Tickets suspiciously strings-free. Giddy, but on guard. #
  • Adrift: SHIP alarm. Crap. We’re probably still in a jump, so… fire? Nothing else it could be .. http://bit.ly/1F9De #
  • The Empire Strikes Barack [Pic Of The Day] (http://j.mp/PDUWk #
  • Not a great day. Not /bad/, as such, but decidedly less-good than it might have been. #
  • This is me: RT: @RowanLarke: My book is like a big game of Jenga. With words. I'm scared I'll take a piece out and later it'll collapse. #
  • We is America (http://j.mp/VPAB8) – "9/12/01: everyone was an American. 8 years later, the 9-12 Project: 78,000 white people who can’t s … #
  • How to Unlock the Amazing Secret of Unlimited Productivity (http://j.mp/7yoMz) – As a teacher of productivity/time management classes, I … #
  • I just noticed that the current WIP-copy I'm working in is missing stuff. Entire scenes. #eyegouge #OpenOfficeNeedsADiffCompare #
  • Hey Twitterfolk – about a week back, someone mentioned a free online thing that backs up versioned copies of your stuff. RT yourself, plz. #
  • Adrift: The only object that exists in both jump-space and regular space is a moon in the Remnants, but t.. http://bit.ly/fJDZQ #
  • The Search (http://j.mp/qMt9u) – Ahh, perspective. #
  • RT: @kottke: nearly 45,000 annual US deaths are associated with lack of health insurance – a 9/11 every month or so. http://bit.ly/3AhscT #
  • Okay, WHAT is that noise? #yourguessasgoodasmine #
  • Cool. We'll actually be there pretty soon. At hampden and Monoco. #
  • Adrift: Turns out, I was wrong twice: I /did/ sleep that long, and that remnant moon isn’t the only.. http://bit.ly/11OwN0 #
  • Rt @mightymur things that should not be difficult to open: Midol. Arthritis medicine. Ben & Jerry's. (I agree. Especially the Midol.) #
  • Mind. Kinda blown. Rt @lilithsaintcrow "The story belongs to the character who changes the most." –Laura Kalpakian (http://bit.ly/3HKuPQ) #
  • (I miss all the good stuff) RT @cyface Hmmm. I declare that peeing in a urinal next to @jonathancoulton is a bit too surreal for me. :) #
  • The @jonathancoulton show was excellent. I laughed, cried, and combos thereof. Only downside was the table of idiots who wouldn't STFU. #
  • IMPORTANT: @daphneun has songs from Glee on her iPod. I will understand if you shun her for this. Or follow her. That too. #
  • In honor of Talk like a Pirate Day: http://bit.ly/2jJZw (there're live versions but I dig the machinima) #
  • Wanting to Game with My Dad (http://j.mp/2iCroF) – Someday. Someday… #
  • Chuck E. Cheese birthday party, plus post @jonathancoulton hangover. A bit like being a chestburster victim, juuust before the big reveal. #
  • Solar panels shaped like clay roof tiles (http://j.mp/13aTf5) – DO WANT. #