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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Appropriate Pre-NaNo Reading

    Familiar with The Eye of Argon? Enjoy Mystery Science Theater 3000? No? Well, shame on you then. Shame!

    Anyway.

    Via Zeitgeist, on which I would leave comment or email of thanks if such options were available, I give you… The Eye of Argon, MSTied!

    It’s funnier than it has any right to be, if a titch uneven in execution. And I quote:

    The orb that had been before taken for granted, yet now cherished above all else. To be forever refused further glimpses of the snow capped summits of the land of his birth, never again to witness the thrill of plundering unexplored lands beyond the crest of a bleeding horizon,

    Mike: I–I feel his pain. [wipes away a tear]
    Crow: I feel pain all right, but it’s not his.

    and perhaps worst of all the denial to ever again encompass the lustful excitement of caressing the naked curves of the body of a trim yound wench.

    Tom: This is the part of the story Bob Packwood can really relate to.

    This was indeed one of the buried chasms of Hell concealed within the inner depths of the palace’s despised interior.

    Mike: They keep Limbo in a closet up on the second floor.

    A fearful ebony chamber devised to drive to the brinks of insanity the minds of the unfortunately condemned, through the inapt solitude of a limbo of listless dreary silence.

    Crow: If you’re trying to drive them insane, why not just make them read THE EYE OF ARGON? It’d be a lot quicker.

    Okay, yes, so I’m a weirdo to get such a kick out of this sort of thing. Your point being…?

  • NaNo Rethink

    I had sort of a harebrained idea for this year’s NaNoWriMo novel, and I’ve spent weeks trying to figure out how to set up the plot points and make it all work without being unbearably cheesy.

    Day after day, night after night, no luck, no dice, no go.

    This afternoon, in the shower, it hit me. I have a better story idea, and it’s one that I worked out the plot points for almost a year ago. I’m going to wrap it in part of the discarded story idea so I can continue with the plan to work on describing locations better by setting a few scenes here in Portland. (I need to work on my descriptive abilities, and I figured this year’s NaNo would be the best venue for practice. I’ll take my laptop places and take my best shot at describing the sights, smells and sounds while not breaking the narrative flow too badly.)

    The good news is that I have much more confidence in my ability to finish the novel. The bad news is that I’m going to have to essentially write two stories at once, interweaving the two, while changing perspectives if not tenses.

    “Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a padded cell. I died there. They buried me six feet deep. The worms nibbled my brain. It drove me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once…”

  • Past, Present, Future – Round Thirty-six

    PAST: Juice, milk, or soda?

    PRESENT: Coffee, tea, or cocoa?

    FUTURE: By land, by air or by sea?

    “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things does not belong…” Oh well. Perhaps I’m overly fond of these “free-interpretation” PPFs, but they’re fun dammit!

    Anyway. You know how to play, folks. Leave a comment with your answers or the link thereto, and when you link back please use the following handy-dandy always-current permalink: http://greyduck.net/ppf/

    Thanks once again!

  • The triumph of marketing over perspective.

    I unpacked our new GM’s computer from CDW, and instead of the usual unmarked keyboard box I found this:

    Wow. Could we be a little bit more full of self-importance, please? Sheesh!

    *smirk*

    And in the “oh, these are the problems you wanna have” department, it turns out that I have to burn a whole week’s worth of vacation hours on top of what I’m already spending to do OryCon and take an extra day after Thanksgiving weekend. Since I can’t take an entire week off or Very Bad Things will happen, it looks like I’m going to be taking a whole slew of three-day weekends…

  • Gator IS Spyware

    So it’s not as though I really need to point out or drive traffic to the little-known website called Slashdot, but every now and then I just can’t help myself. Take this thread, for instance:

    Gator Forces Site To Remove ‘Spyware’ Label

    There’s a lot of good vitriol in there, but this tidbit really caught my eye as a piece of above-and-beyond humor:

    Dear Gator,

    Gator is Spyware, you f***ers. Spyware. Spyware. Spyware.

    Please send me a nastygram. My career is stalled, and I could really use the publicity.

    Love,

    Wil Wheaton
    Linux weenie who doesn’t even use your crappy SPYware.

    PS- It’s spyware.

    He’s right, you know. Gator is spyware. The best removal tool for all such malware is Spybot Search & Destroy, just so you know.

    That, or don’t run Windows. *smirk*

    (Yes, Mari, I linked to Wil Wheaton. Yes, this is one of the signs of the forthcoming Apocalypse.)

  • Continuing the “death” line of thinking…

    Thanks to Dawn for this quiz…

    I will be struck down by a meteor!



    How will you die? Take the Exotic Cause of Death Test
    What’s less likely then being struck by lightning? That’s right, a meteor strike!
    Just your luck!

    That’s okay. She’s going to be crushed by a giant duck.

    Don’t say it. Don’t even think it. Hush, you.

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