Scott: “I assume the witch is going to try and hinder me as me, my madman and my dog try to leave the room?”
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I’m only posting this so I can talk to people on the LJ comment feed about tonight’s Battlestar Galactica.
“This offer is not connected to posting our site on your blog but we will be very happy if you will write about us!”
I got some pretty neat spam today: Booksprice.com offered me a free copy of either Snow or My Name is Red by, er, “Price Nobel Winner Orhan Pamuk” in exchange (except not in exchange; see above) for my blogging about their site. Not a bad deal. I’m guessing they found me through Technorati–anyone else receive similar email?
The other way they might have found me is that I’ve written about Bookfinder before, and it’s sitting right on Booksprice’s target market. I tested both services against my go-to out-of-print book, Orson Scott Card’s Maps in a Mirror: Booksprice’s results returned a little faster, but it found only copies of the reissued paperback from a few years ago, whereas Bookfinder found multiple copies of the original hardback at comparable prices. Winner: Bookfinder!
On the other hand, Booksprice calculates shipping for you, and it also looks for used CDs, DVDs and video games. Pretty tempting. I doubt it’ll find anything cheaper than the best price you could get on eBay, but it’s probably less hassle.
I’m not interested in either of the books they offered, but I’ve done my part and I’d be happy to give one of them away. If you are interested, shoot me an email and I’ll either give them your address or give them mine and pass the book on to you.
This is the first time I’ve actually been offered goods (or money, or services) for PageRank. I’m on the A-list now! I will take my free convention passes in pairs, please.
As seen camwise, the dog has ceased to destroy my copies of Halo 2 (I bought the one with the aluminum case) and occupies most of her days now staring out the window. Eventually she will evolve wings, and yea, the people will learn fear of the Hawkpuppy of Broadway.
From a discussion of finding Dracula’s voice in the Anacrusis LJ-feed comments comes this quasifilk gem of Ben’s:
“You know perfectly well the nature of doctor-patient privilege, Vlad,” says Van Helsing. “But–“
“I have her power of attorney since she was declared missing,” says Mina. “Go ahead, doctor.”
Dracula looks at her sharply, then back to Van Helsing. “Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula Dracula, Dracula.”
Van Helsing sighs. “It’s Ms. Murray’s discretion. In here, please.”
He gestures them into a file room and rummages through drawers. “Polycythemia vera,” he says, “a chronic condition. Simply put, the young lady produces too many erythrocytes; circulation is slowed, bruises come easily. Treatment of choice is–“
“Dracula,” says Dracula.
I have the space heater on next to my feet but, as is the way with space heaters, most of the heat hot air is rising and warming my face instead of my feet. So I thought, here’s a problem for science fiction to solve: downward heat. Inverse quantum nanogravity! Tachyon cosmic noise emitters! Will it be used for good? Or will it be used at all?
Then I was like wait, what I actually want is a blanket.
According to Yale, when you are self-employed everything is tax-deductible as long as you claim it’s paper
My purchase of a laptop justified itself today when the RAM in my tower exploded and lost me about six hours’ worth of work. Bad RAM! Literally, bad RAM! It would have cost me another day and a half if I didn’t have the little white rectangle on which I’m typing this. Cost-benefit ratio so far is about 9:2. At least it’s tax-deductible.
Brace yourself, feed
So this Battlestar Galactose show. It’s pretty good?
I guess.
I didn’t move to New York and I don’t plan on doing so; I’d have more money and some good friends there, but I don’t like the city very much and I’d be unhappy living there. I am still planning on moving, when I have the funds to do so on my own. I continue to work remotely for Indelible, and it’s not like I have to be in Louisville to do that.
Places I’d like to move include the SF Bay area, Portland, Seattle, Boston, Providence, San Diego and the Raleigh-Durham tri-city whatever. These reorder themselves in desirability on an hourly basis.
Hey Louis Villains. I’m running an in-store demo of Dogs in the Vineyard this afternoon at the Louisville Game Shop, and if you like games that tell stories you should come.
This is the first time I’ve ever run a game for people I didn’t know. I’m kind of nervous!