September 2007 - Posts

A footnote in history

I'd like to toss a hypothetical out there for y'all to ponder. Say, for the sake of argument, that you're an editor for a technical book publisher. You have a line of books that you want to make roughly equivalent to textbooks in layout and feel. Now, Read More...
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2007 09 27

Devin

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Sorry, LJ

I'm getting really bloody tired of LJ's RSS feed reader deciding to re-read old posts from my blog. Apologies to the 20 or so people who still read this blog's LJ feed. I'm starting to think I need to just ask LJ to remove the devinonearth feed entirely Read More...
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2007 09 18

Devin

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Back to the Light

Yesterday evening, I found out that author James Oliver Rigney died yesterday after a long struggle with amyloidosis (a disease where your body deposits insoluble proteins in its own tissues and organs). Mr. Rigney was better known under a variety of Read More...
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2007 09 17

Devin

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Memory

I have something in my head trying to come out. It's about 9/11. It's not ready to come out yet. In the meantime, here's John M Ford's 110 Stories . Read More...
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2007 09 11

Devin

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Games in the key of X

Thanks to the miracle of Cragslist, I have an Xbox. Not an Xbox 360 -- that's the plan for the family Christmas gift -- but a regular Xbox, which is still more than enough to play all sorts of cool games I haven't played yet. For $65, I got the following: Read More...
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2007 09 9

Devin

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Oh, yeah

For those of you keeping track, I'm 35 now. Yup, had my birthday Wednesday. Going by a literal reading of the Bible, I'm half-way through my life span ("threescore and ten"). Going by modern numbers, I could in theory be only 1/3 of the way through my Read More...
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2007 09 9

Devin

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GENIUS!

Earlier tonight while reading my LiveJournal friends' posts, I saw this video: The Mean Kitty Song This video has been cracking me up for hours now. I've watched it, like, a gazillion times, and I still am laughing my ass off. I'm also madly wanting a Read More...
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2007 09 9

Devin

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