You may know him as “that guy responsible for Two Lumps,” but James L Grant is a multi-talented badass. Case in point? He’s about to self-publish the first in a planned series of riffs on the Conan mythos (The Barbarian, not The Ginger Talk Show Host) called “Velan The Reticent.”
And since he’s making it available as an ebook, I will purchase a copy for my Nook Color once he gets that bad boy out the door…
I can’t believe that I’ve posted two hundred of these things over the course of nearly two years. Even more mind-boggling is that a few dozen people read them every week.
So, I’ve accomplished that, at least.
Wow.
But that doesn’t stop this comedy bit from being utterly hilarious and spot-on.
You know, you’d think that Microsoft could afford proofreaders for their EULA boilerplate text. But…
Sloppy, guys. Very sloppy.
First off, I would like to direct you over to that webcomic of mine for this year’s holiday event: The Quackvent Calendar 2010. (Last year the ducks presented The Twelve Days Of Christmas in their own off-kilter fashion. This year I decided that coming up with a second new set of lyrics was completely out of the question.)
On a wholly different note, may I just say that I cannot take all of this manufactured-hype “Cyber Monday” and “Cyber Wednesday” (Really guys? Really?) shopping stuff seriously. Why? Because once upon a time, I was a young man on the Internet.
Think about it.
Since the subject seems to have come up lately:
This entry may be updated if I find somewhere else that I should have made a list… and/or checked it twice…
