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“They disparage one who remains silent, they disparage one who talks a lot, they...”
– Dhammapada
September 2007
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July 2007
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(It's Dave, by the way)
Me: What's the name of the Ed Harris character in Glengarry Glen Ross?
Mrs: I don't remember. Why?
Me: I just realized. That's who [a punkass blogger I know] is.
Me: He's all, "Aww, fuck you! Fuck the lot of you!"
Me: And I'm Ricky Roma. I made the sales, I'm getting the Cadillac.
Mrs: You sure you want to describe yourself as Ricky Roma?
Mrs: He's a con artist. He gets the Caddy by ripping people off.
Me: Yes, but he's good at it, and the Ed Harris character is a crybaby loser.
Me: And that's exactly the relationship between me and [that other guy].
Me: This analogy only applies within the narrowly defined worldview of the text, of course.
June 2007
3 posts
“I swear to Holy Bleeding God that the next time I read a writer mewling out an...”
– John Scalzi
May 2007
4 posts
“In recent years, dozens of sites, including Bookslut.com, The Elegant Variation,...”
– “Are Book Reviewers Out of Print?” (NY Times, 5/2/07)
April 2007
4 posts
Emergy-C, The Low Wattage Palette →
A blogger has come up with a color palette that’s energy-efficient for CRT, Plasma, or OLED screens. I like it!
“It’s appalling that a standing Vice President of SFWA is calling a rather...”
– John Scalzi’s opening line in a longer-than-usual GalleyCat item about what happened when a science fiction writer criticized his peers for publishing fiction online and distributing it for free.
March 2007
2 posts
Found @ Housing Works
Realized it’s been at least 15 years since I read this book all the way through, and figured I’d better do something about that.
