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Monthly Archives: April 2008

links for 2008-04-19

by Rob Friesel

Not the Strongest Possible Argument Hit & Run @ Reason Magazine (via lawnczar) – I… I’m speechless! (tags: politics Olympics humor surreal irony) SF MAGAZINES: SF Writers On The Short Fiction Market via Warren Ellis (tags: scifi writing publishing todo) Celebrity Robot T-shirt @ B^2, Gizmodo, everywhere else :: it is quite awesome (tags: scifi […]

Things

by Rob Friesel

For about the past month, I have been trying out the public beta of Cultured Code’s Things. Things is a “GTD-style” task management application with a clean UI and some nice, convenient features. While I am not really an adherent to GTD philosophy credited to David Allen, the truth is that a decent task management […]

links for 2008-04-16

by Rob Friesel

Citrus Soldier – A king fit for a food. Showed up in my Flickr referrers. While I’m not so keen on “mine”, many of the others are quite awesome. (tags: comic absurdist surreal flickr) How-to Book Sold via Ecstatic Days :: I want this book. (tags: wishlist writing todo)

dream.20080415: pirate lair

by Rob Friesel

The pirate gangs have a docking system that floats out in the middle of the ocean.  The docks themselves are lashed together with rope and various iron brackets; there are warehouses (some of them standing up, some of them sinking down into the water) that hold food and cannon shot, where they unload plunder or […]

dream.20080412: ghostbuster

by Rob Friesel

A hyperreal MMORPG type setting.  Sword-and-sorcery type fantasy.  Deep labyrinthine forests and far off dark towers.  A race to the finish line.  A race to the highest level of the final tower, an epic struggle of mythological proportions awaits.  There is a secret key combination, a cheat code to boost your stats, to instantly level. […]

dream.20080409: advisory

by Rob Friesel

I am the literary advisor to the President of the United States of America.  It is not a Cabinet position; it’s more like being a manservant.  The pay is adequate and the uniform is the most comfortable suit I’ve ever had the pleasure of wearing but it also is not what I had in mind […]