Writing location: everywhere but The Chair… Well… I made it. Squeezed in 3,048 words today to meet the goal. I would not exactly say that the story is finished. (My “ending” is too … er … Stephensonian for that to be the case…) I feel like I could squeeze another 50,000 out of this tale. […]
Writing locations: kitchen but mostly The Chair… The fourth Friday of the month. We’ll call it the end of week four though we haven’t yet had a full four weeks of November. That said, I think we’ll hit 50k here before then. Nearly there but calling it an early night. The holidays can really take […]
Writing location: kitchen table > The Chair > kitchen table > couch > The Chair… …back on track. Got the daily average back up to 2,006/day. Still optimistic that I’ll hit 50k with time to spare. Quite the full day today too and I still managed this one: Today’s Oblique Strategy: The most important thing […]
Human DNA is far more varied than thought via New Scientist (tags: science genetics research todo) Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about via OS X Daily (via TUAW) (tags: Mac OSX reference terminal)
So I decided to check out Flickr’s new “Camera Finder” feature that I’ve been hearing about this week. Mostly out of curiosity. What was all the fuss about? What kind of data does it show? What kind of discovery does it have? Anyway, seems that most of the popular cameras are all DSLRs (digital photo […]
A little holiday humor… Thanksgiving! What’s on the menu? The Traditional: Turkey with stuffing, trimmings… The Vegetarian: Tofurkey loaf with squash medley The Bachelor: Hungry Man Turkey Cutlet meal via microwave The Iconoclast: Rack of Pilgrim Ribs, bitches… The Kingdom: Flank of cow moose drizzled in musk… Poll totally poached from The Wrangle. Happy Thanksgiving […]
Writing location: Once again, it’s all about The Chair… Something cropped up at work and kept yrs truly late. Kind of draining. Kind of killed the momentum for the night. Ugh. In two days my average per day word count went from 2,107 to 1,979. A 6.07% decrease! I’m slipping… Perhaps I will get a […]
Hanging out in some weird little arcade, I stumble across this interesting-looking game. I’m not sure why I feel so drawn to it; it’s basically just a side-scroller. The “interesting” part of the game is that is uses a two-handed touch-screen method for control. With the right hand you control the path of your character. […]
via a A. (via J.G.-C. via MSNBC.com): Woman kicked off plane for breast-feeding baby (in Vermont!?!?): Gillette said she was discreetly breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter […] She said she was seated by the window in the next-to-last row, her husband was seated between her and the aisle and no part of her breast was showing. […]
Writing location: The Chair… 100%. Welcome 802 Online readers. (Thanks for the plug, Cathy!) Family just landed in town for the Thanksgiving holiday. Alas, hanging up the spurs a little early this evening: Today’s Oblique Strategy: ghost echoes Today’s Word Count: 42,960 of 50,000 (85.92%)