SCENE: Samuel R. Delany, sitting at his writing desk, surrounded by books (some on shelves, but most piled on the floor), circa 1973; a man walks into the room. – Delany and the man stare at each other. They both stroke their beards. Delany: “Who are you?” The Man: “Don’t you know? They sent me.” […]
NaNoWriMo is over. Now what? Toss it, or floss it? And… via Scrivener (tagged: writing nanowrimo ) Steve Souders: Making Web Sites Faster in the Web 2.0 Age at O'Reilly Radar (tagged: JavaScript webdev work todo ) CommonJS effort sets JavaScript on path for world domination via /. (tagged: javascript interesting CommonJS ServerJS todo ) […]
Deadwood opium no reserve price but start high amusing haiku “Search Term Haiku” is a series wherein I examine this site’s log files and construct one or more haiku poems from search terms and phrases that led visitors to the site. Where possible, I attempt to keep the search phrases intact. However, as these are […]
The Technium: 1,000 True Fans via John (tagged: interesting future art writing creativity culture business essay todo longtail ) Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help at NYTimes.com: As children grow older, they become more selective in their helpfulness. Starting around age 3, they will share more generously with a child who […]
The copy/pasted/validated word count came in as 50,198… …but that was a story without an ending. So I plowed ahead and tacked on an ending that kinda/sorta worked well enough 1 and used Scrivener’s word counter 2 to get my new “completed” word count of 52,520. So yeah… Go me! Thanks to everyone that was […]
Apple document details Target Display mode for 27" iMac at tuaw — makes me think that I shouldn't bother getting an external monitor for "the home office" and just upgrade to this guy next year and use this instead… (tagged: iMac Apple hardware wishlist ) Advanced Plugin Development with Ext JS Great piece on developing […]
Beverage Company McKinlay And Co. Drills For Vintage Scotch Whiskey In Antarctica at cbs5.com (via B²) — I wish all news stories were like this. It has everything! (tagged: whiskey conservation Antarctica environment history news ) Pasadena Yoga Some linky love for a friend's yoga program down in MD. (tagged: Maryland yoga friend ) Hacked […]
If you’ve been keeping track, we are (as of typing this) past week three and into week four of NaNoWriMo. According to their little widget, there are eight days left in the writing sprint. I’m currently claiming 45,058 words committed to the manuscript. To put it into perspective, that’s about: 5 days aheads of schedule […]
Odd Man Out. Why isn’t anyone else taking paternity leave? (tagged: parenting essay ) 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them at Nettuts+ – just keep reminding yourself (tagged: webdev IE debugging work ) A bug’s dance at The University of Chicago Magazine: Arts & Sciences – “Julia Oldham’s artwork is inspired […]
Friday the 13th. I am 13 days into NaNoWriMo and have hit that weird spot where the hours don’t all match up in a given day any more. I apparently picked a hell of a year to give a crack at the contest again. Whew… A few observations at this point in the writing sprint: […]