Final score: Me A. 533 432 A good strong game all around with some solid plays and clever word choices on both sides. A. had a great opener with “DAZE” and kept the lead for several rounds. Wasn’t her fault that I managed to play “SQUIRE” and “QUEER” back-to-back. And then drop “KNAVERY” two turns […]
Personal goals for 2007: let’s see where we are after Q3: Write approx. 80,000 new words of fiction. …with at least 40,000 words of “totally new” fiction. As I updated this goal once already this year, I won’t bother updating it again. That would seem like cheating. That said, I think I may have picked […]
I’m inside my own private version of Cargill’s 90/90 Law. Comparing the last three days of work on The Project’s outline with the last three weeks… Well, it doesn’t look like much by comparison. Endings are as difficult to conceptualize as they are to write. Even something that borders on Stephensonian 1. I suppose then […]
F_D in transit to WordPress 2.3… Plugging in the new native tagging API was a snap (10 minutes max). There’s a built-in migrator for existing Ultimate Tag Warrior tags (bonus) so getting this rolled out to the live environment should will go nice and smooth. The bummer part is with the “conflict” reported on the […]
A. & I hiked Sterling Falls Gorge in Stowe today. Poorly marked, a bit muddy and swampy, and no particularly impressive views but still nice to get outside on this superbly gorgeous day. Also: lunch at The Shed (featuring the Hall of Foam “ski” of beer) FTW!
My calendar tells me I’ve spent roughly 30 hours since August 24th working on re-re-re-re-outlining my book. Sounds pretty good to me. All things considered, I’ll probably need to clock another 20-30 hours before I put the seal on the outline and start actually writing again. My hat is off to John once again for […]
jQuery makes JavaScript webdev so easy it’s almost stupid; 5 minutes of experimenting with the jCarousel extension followed by 10 minutes of wiring it up and then 10 minutes of CSS followed by 5 minutes of jamming it all through SVN 1 and a home-rolled Twitter marquee is born. Been on a good consistent writing […]
Waiting for dinner to cook… Smells good, can’t wait. Caught P.’s latest Twitter shortly after I got home and had this weird moment of synchronicity. See, I stopped off at the library on my way home and while browsing the available volumes of Dick, Delaney, and Lovecraft (none of which piqued) I noticed that they […]
My folks were in town, dropping my brother off at college. They crashed with us and we did it up on the bike path and the grill and just generally got down as a family for a bit. We took note that the meal we cooked Saturday contained only vegetables from our garden; and the […]
Burlington people: Clutch is playing tonight at Higher Ground. As I’ve already said, they put on one hell of a great show. Don’t miss out. See you there. (Photo by AJ Fischler)