| Prayers for a Friend |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|03:40 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) spunkywulf has already said it here but I'm going to say it again. Please keep our friend in your prayers as he goes through some serious treatments today to get his lungs working again due to H1N1 complicated by Pneumonia. He's a strong guy with a loving wife and they are too perfect a couple for anything to separate them, but good healing thoughts and prayers can only help him pull through sooner.
I've been so out of touch with my old friends up in Massachusetts since I moved. I hate that it takes something like this to remind me how much I care and how important people are in my life. |
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| Hey, it's Monday. |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|11:07 am] |
And thus time for...
The Weekly Word Count. /reverb
Last week's word count: 118,444
This week's word count: 120,500
Word count for the week: 2,056
I'll take it, although I'm not actually sure that the latest "kill me please" scene I scribbled last night is actually going to make the Final Cut.
In other news, this week is going to be taken up with outlining the first novel so I actually have an idea of what happened in each chapter, and then I'm going to hammer at the Query Letter of Doom. Because the first one needs to start pulling its weight around here. |
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| Looking up, a little |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|01:52 am] |
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My Dremel came back all fixed. They worked on it and shipped it back for free, in fact, despite the fact that it was well out of warranty; apparently they don't actually record when you send in your product registration card. So I was able to do some work on the Sculpey hooves at work, but that was a bust because the plumes of white dust didn't go with my dark uniform. I'll have to do this at home. Instead, I cut bits out of a tool caddy so it could carry cards and other bits and pieces of Cutthroat Caverns, a game I bought a few weeks ago. Fun game, for the most part, but if you buy the expansions (as I did) then there's a lot to store. You could fit it all into one box, but only barely, and if you do it's impossible to find the exact tokens you need for a fight out of the hundred or so in the box. Easier to spend the ten bucks.
And that's been that, of late. |
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| Health Care Bill Passes House |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:36 pm] |
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/07/health.care/index.html
Well, it's now the House of Representatives' position that it has "essentially unlimited" authority to interfere in my life. And yours, fellow Americans. It's up to the Senate now to decide whether the government abides by the Constitution at all.
Further thought:
You know, I had thought about posting a different entry tonight, musing on the fact that I found a way to express one of the main faults in Objectivist philosophy. Harmless idle stuff. But there's a gang of people a thousand or so miles away that just decided to interfere in my life, when all I want from them is to leave me the hell alone. |
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| Python Sockets Experiment |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|01:48 am] |
Last night I worked on learning to use "sockets", basic Internet/server communication.
http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/sockets/
There's the result: a little socket library (Toomi) written in Python, and a mostly redundant stand-alone client program. They're GPL-licensed if you want to use them.
I built a clunky chat/game demo around Toomi and tested that with multiple instances of the client, all on this machine, but haven't been able to test on the Net yet. Anyone have Python installed and willing to do a five-minute test? If not, I suppose I could use the laptop and netbook together somewhere.
Thanks to Gordon McMillan for this tutorial, which gets into the theory instead of just a recipe. Again, the fishing lesson proves more useful than a plain fish. |
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| Fuck. |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|10:02 pm] |
And the Ft. Hood shooting hits even closer to home. Pvt. Aaron Nemelka, from West Jordan, UT, (which is the city I live in) was one of the first people killed by that UTTER FUCKING ASSHOLE yesterday. Pvt. Nemelka was nineteen.
Hanging is too good for Hasan. I refuse to dignify him by mentioning the rank he no longer merits.
And of course it's a fucking act of terror. He may have acted alone, may not be part of a cell--but no one thinks that the Oklahoma City Bombing is anything less than an act of terrorism, and Timothy McVeigh only acted with one other person. Lone nuts are perfectly capable of terrorism, and we're fucking delusional if we don't think that. If the killing of an abortionist by an idiot fanatic merits the word "terrorism" (and don't you dare tell me it doesn't, because I see that all the time), then this certainly does. The body count is certainly higher.
A tsunami is a tragedy. An earthquake is a tragedy. This was a cowardly act of cold-blooded premeditated mass murder, by a guy who yelled "Allahu Akbar" before he opened fire on his fellow soldiers. Don't tell me I'm jumping to a conclusion. The conclusion leaped out of a dark alley and mugged me.
Apologies for the R-rated language, but I'm beyond furious and maybe Ben's rubbing off on me a little. He wouldn't have any patience for this kind of sugar-coating bullshit either. "Tragedy" my ass. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|12:28 am] |
New Comic is up! Sorry for the delay. |
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| I am holding... |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|08:23 pm] |
(metaphorically speaking) in my formerly nictine-stained fingers...
the .pdf proof for Darwin's Evolutions Vol. 2 No. 1. In which my story "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" is appearing.
And it's shiny, y'all. OMG THE ILLUSTRATION. It's by the handsome and talented Karl Nordman, and it's SOOOOOOOOOO PRETTY.
I'd forgotten how much I love this story. I'm so happy it's seeing print. |
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| Or Else! |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|07:30 pm] |
http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=153583
The Republicans pushed for a clear statement about the "buy insurance or else" provisions of the health care bills. They got one re: the House version. You will buy insurance that meets government approval, or the government will take your money as punishment; and if you won't pay, you get chained up in a dank cell to be raped and shivved. All because you refused to buy something.
Since I've got a high-deductible insurance plan through my employer -- the kind of plan that doesn't meet the proposed mandate -- this legislation is a threat against me, personally.
Remember that Pelosi's official position is that the feds have "essentially unlimited" power. If you're on the left on some topics, are you prepared to let some future Republican have the power to throw you in jail for not directing your personal life the way he thinks best? (I was saying something similar to Republicans re: warrantless wiretapping, which the new President now defends as I expected.) |
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| MFF... no. |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
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Sorry, but I won't be attending MFF this year.
There are a lot of things happening in my life and in my head, and right now, my heart just isn't into it... not to mention finances are far too tight.
I'm ok, honest... I'm just fitting a few pieces together, and this isn't gonna be one of them right now. |
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| GIP. |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|03:44 pm] |
I hunted high and low for an image that I wanted to make a "sad" icon with, because sometimes I just don't have a suitable icon for whatever depressing thing has happened lately. And then I found an image that I actually already had hiding on my hard drive, and now I've got one. Go, me.
Because sometimes things happen and all we want to do is squish our stuffed lion.
Totally gankable if anyone wants the thing. |
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