Richard Dansky's Blog, page 57

Paranormal Quadruped Activity

Terrifying...

...if you're a goat.

Otherwise, a very enjoyable film.

Books! Yay, Books!

If you're in the RTP area, You Know You Want Some.

(In other words, it's Wake County Library Sale time again)

2012 Deconstructed

Props to the guys at i09 for this.

Because the end of the world DESERVES bongos, damnit.

Samuel R. Delany at NCSU

I got introduced to the works of Samuel R. Delany far too young and in my parents' basement. They had a fairly magnificent collection of science fiction paperbacks (and a few hardcover oddities that I had no business reading at that age, Ron Goulart's The Chameleon Corps being one of particular distinction) that I dove into wholeheartedly once I figured out that Fiction Was Good.

(Third grade, in case you were wondering. But that's an entirely different essay).

Includeed in there, with The...

A Note on Alan Parsons

The idea of having a compilation of the Alan Parsons Project's best love songs is strange. The fact that someone thought including "Eye in the Sky" in there - one of the all-time stalkeriffic classics, along with "Every Breath You Take" and "When Your Heart Is Weak" - is just plain creepy.

And the corpses of my library laid out behind me...

So far this year, I've snaffled up precisely 102 books from start to finish. Just for giggles, I've been tracking my reading habits for the last couple of years on Goodreads, and did some poking at what was in there.

Of the 102 books so far, the largest chunk is fantasy, at 24. This is followed by 13 horror novels and twelve each in the graphic novel and mystery department. No surprises here; the book reviewing certainly pumps up the genre fiction numbers, especially considering Green Man Rev...

rdansky @ 2009-11-10T22:58:00

So far this year, I've snaffled up precisely 102 books from start to finish. Just for giggles, I've been tracking my reading habits for the last couple of years on Goodreads, and did some poking at what was in there.

Of the 102 books so far, the largest chunk is fantasy, at 24. This is followed by 13 horror novels and twelve each in the graphic novel and mystery department. No surprises here; the book reviewing certainly pumps up the genre fiction numbers, especially considering Green Man Rev...

NanoCon Wrapup

So.

Saturday

Got up early, as Jeff, Chris and I were supposed to be judging the student game design competition at 9 AM. Cleverly, we left ourselves 45  minutes for breakfast at the diner on the way to campus. Not so cleverly, we forgot that it was pheasant season, which meant pheasant hunters wanting breakfast, and in this particular case meant a party of forty well-armed individuals storming the diner just before we got there and clamoring for their pancakes.

We, uh, ran a little late as a re...

Madison, SD - Day 2 (posted late)

Spotted today - an honest-to-got Sinclair station. (apologies to Melinda, who's heard this story a million times) When I was a kid, my dad did a lot of traveling, and one of the things he brought back for me from his work travels were these dinosaur-themed booklets that Sinclair put out. Until Melinda and I started dating, I'd never seen a real Sinclair station, and thought they'd gone as extinct as their bronto-logo. Here, I've spotted three within a mile of the hotel - and there's a sign at...

Interesting tidbit

Madison, SD is apparently the pheasant-hunting capital of the world.

There were a lot of guys on the plane last night wearing hunters' camo. Much is now explained.