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November 19, 2012
We Have a Winner!
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November 18, 2012
Sunday Six: Undercover
Today's Sunday Six from Chapter Seven of
Book of Death
:
Unfortunately, one couldn't just hop in a car and drive to a city seventy-five miles away. Maybe Romanians could but not foreigners. The Romanian government had to be informed and permission obtained. I wasn't too happy about informing the Romanian government that I was traveling to Pitesti. But since I was officially a diplomat, an excuse had already been fabricated for me to go there. Apparently I was to study the puppet theater at the County Theater for its cultural significance, and to determine if the performers could travel to the U.S. in a "cultural exchange."
November 15, 2012
Review of Book of Death
Check out this great review of
Book of Death
at Beauty in Ruins blog! An excerpt:I was hoping for something different with Book of Death, and I'm pleased to say it delivered.
November 14, 2012
More MarbleCam Madness
My friend, Sare, introduced me through her blog to MarbleCam, an iPhone app (free) that manipulates photographs. So she and I have been having fun texting each other our latest MarbleCam creations. See if you can figure out what all of these are (they are all mine):
November 13, 2012
Ebook Giveaway
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Book of Death
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November 12, 2012
The Pac-12
When people talk about college football conferences, often they think of the Big-10 and the SEC. But the Pac-12 (formerly known as the Pac-10) seems to labor on in obscurity caused by the Rocky Mountains or something (it's no secret, most of the U.S. media comes out of the East). But right now fully 50% of the teams in the Pac-12 are BCS ranked, including #2 Oregon. Even the vaunted SEC can't claim that (full disclosure: The SEC has six ranked teams, but that's out of 14 teams).I just noticed that because I was checking the standings in the Pac-12 after the weekend's football games to see where my beloved University of Washington Huskies stood, and noticed the Huskies are now ranked (albeit at #25). That means the Pac-12 North Division has four ranked teams (out of six). Not too shabby.
I'm pretty confident that the Huskies or going to go 8-4 (two of their losses to teams ranked #2 and #3 when they played them). They are currently bowl eligible at 6-4 after they beat Utah this weekend. With Oregon probably going to the BCS, that means the Huskies could get a pretty good bowl slot, even though they are #4 in their very tough division (Pac-12 North).
And since they are a very young team, next year they should look even better.
P.S.: The sports/Huskies posts should end when the Huskies' season ends. Just FYI.
November 11, 2012
Sunday Six: The Cop
Today's Sunday Six from Chapter Four of
Book of Death
:A motorcycle cop I hadn't noticed jumped off his bike, pulled his service revolver, and shot it into the Indian with six cracks of bullets being fired. It had no effect other than sending burning splinters of wood flying. The cop suddenly looked frightened, and was gripping his billy club but taking no further action.
People were screaming loudly now. I looked around, looking for an escape. If I could teleport away I might escape, but I could see no clear place to teleport to.
November 10, 2012
What is it?
My friend, Sare, blogged about this iPhone app called MarbleCam. It takes pictures and manipulates them. Here's one I took (and had manipulated). What do you think it is?
Text Silliness
The other day (okay, Wednesday) I drove to a town about 100 miles away to interview a guy for a freelance writing assignment. I stopped at a fast food restaurant to use their bathroom and get something to drink. And I saw a casual dining restaurant across the street that my wife likes. So I texted her:
November 8, 2012
Snow, Again?
They (the National Weather Service) is once again predicting snow for our area tomorrow. However, temps will be above freezing so it will no doubt melt pretty quickly and just make things wet and muddy. Winter is upon us and the real snow will come soon. I think I'll put my snow tires on next week.
