Archive for December, 2006

Light to Unite

Light a candle…….. Today, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical monolith that charges nearly $1,000 for a 30 day supply of one of its HIV/AIDS medications, is donating $1 to the National AIDS Fund for each person who simply visits their website and “virtually lights a candle.” Please take a minute to light a candle.

Favorite Christmas Songs – YouTube Style

Here are ten of my favorites in no particular order. This was inspired by Janet at The Art of Getting By and her Tell It To Me Tuesday.

Web 2.0 vs Star Wars

Take a quiz to see if you can differentiate between Web 2.0 tech and Star Wars characters. I scored a 37, “As your doctor, I recommend moving out of your parents’ basement.”

Transformers Trailer

When I heard they were doing a Transformers movie I wasn’t terribly excited, interested mind you, but not excited. When I heard that M. Bay was doing it that ratcheted it up a notch. After all it should be loud and feature a number of explosions, so who better? Now the trailer is here and [...]

Hot Topics…

No, not the emo store. Three major search engines have released their most popular searches and they seem to say something about the users of those sites. HT to Roughtype

It is finished…

Well it’s done (draft one at least). I’m putting this puppy to bed for a while. There will be a Book Two and perhaps a Book Three. Sometime in January I’ll begin editing it. If you’re interested in proof reading it then drop me a comment/email. I have it in Word form.

Bygone eras…

It’s interesting how much our culture has changed in fifty to sixty years. I see old commercials like this: and think, “What was going through their heads?”. Not so much that they were selling something “dangerous”, but that it was a “Johnny Reb” cannon. Then I read articles like this about the live action/animation feature [...]

Perilous II!

In lieu of any writing on my novel (a thing which might frustrate one of you) I will do part II of MCF’s Perilous! wherein I have been provided 20 answers and must provide 20 questions.

Selected Stuff…

The following are the products of my weekend.

In training…

but I am finishing up Archangel this week. Promise. Latest chapter is in progress.