Tad Williams's Blog, page 45
July 30, 2010
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28 July 2010
Let the word go out from this time and place that after something like 10 years (dating back to the electronic version) Shadowheart and the whole of the Shadowmarch story is finished. And boy are my arms tired, as the old joke says.
(I mean, I've finished all my revisions and sent the whole manuscript in to be typeset. I actually finished writing the story a couple of weeks ago. But all the rewrites are done.)
The uncanny valley, dude, the uncanny valley.
July 27, 2010
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26 July 2010
I can't explain it all better than these folks did.
Taiwan's Computer-Animated History of Sarah Palin
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"Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality."
— John Ruskin
25 July 2010
Yay for our side. Good job, Comic-Con folks!
Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church
www.comicsalliance.com
Name this lyric: "I love him but it embarrasses me to walk down the street with him..."
The USS Too Much Fun is officially stuck on a sandbar...
July 25, 2010
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24 July 2010
The Day of Three Parties is upon us. You will not hear from me again until the vortex has passed. If then.
I think I shared this about a year ago, but it's so good that anyone who hasn't seen it should and so I'm posting it again.
Nikon | Feel Nikon | Universcale
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Favorite summer night of all time, serious candidate: Sitting on the roof of John Berger's tiny little house in downtown Palo Alto at night, perfect weather, theater party, smoking and listening to John...
July 22, 2010
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21 July 2010
Goblin Shark!
If you don't like Butter man as a profpic, maybe you'd rather I'd stuck with my original...
Amazingly weird and cool Giants game tonight. Baseball. I feel sorry for people who don't appreciate it, just as I'm sure lovers of other esoterica feel sorry for me. It's the flukiest, subtlest sport...
Profile Picture: "Mister, you're a butter man than I." (That's what he's called. Butter man. I don't make the news, I just present it.)
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July 20, 2010
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19 July 2010
Who can guess the identity of my profile picture today? Hint: he works hard for the money, just like Donna Summer.
18 July 2010
Another busy day — music to be played, family to be deserted. It's a full-time job being an absent parent.
17 July 2010
Another one by THESE people...
NAILS
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"Sometimes I think you have to march right in and demand your rights, even if you don't know what your rights are, or who the person is you're talking to. Then on the way...
July 17, 2010
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16 July 2010
Great show by all the kids. We were especially proud of Boy, who absolutely stuck the landing, as it were. Ton of lines, ton of talking and singing, ton of things to do. He did a wonderful job with it all.
THE MUSIC MAN tonight. Boy and Girl are substantially involved. Legs are to be broken (or so we hope.) Yes, we are theater folk...
It's Friday. Which means that everybody else has a weekend coming! Yay! Yay for other people!
July 15, 2010
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14 July 2010
I ran across a phrase in an article, "a University of Bristol paleontologist", and thought, wow, they've already got an academic discipline about Sarah Palin's daughter.
What a terrible, terrible law this was. It is pretty funny watching the hoops people are supposed to jump through to make it work, though.
COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #38 - DIGNITY AND RESPECT - An Army Training Guide On Homosexual Conduct Policy
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There can be only one! I do need someone to bring me lattes...
July 12, 2010
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12 July 2010
Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem.
11 July 2010
I just spent three hours solving a five minute problem, because that's the way it worked. You gotta love writing. And now I still have to rewrite the problematic bit, which is another couple of hours work. , dude.
In honor of Spain's victory in the Copa Mundial, my profile is one of my fave directors, Pedro Almodovar. And some scissors. Go figure.
10 July 2010
"An occasional lapse into the simple, dumb, and cheesy makes...
July 10, 2010
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8 July 2010
My local basketball team, the Golden State Warriors, just made the most infuriating, stupid trade they've made in years -- and that's saying something. I am miserable.
Fill me up with your knowledge. I'll pour it right out again, but it's nice to be useful.
July 7, 2010
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7 July 2010
What day is it? Seriously? I'm deep in this sort of work haze and I keep forgetting what day it is. So, when you drop by my page, I wouldn't mind if you worked it into the conversation. But don't make it too obvious, okay? I have my pride.
To my German friends: Es tut mir leid.
To my Spanish friends: Felcitactiones.
I miss summer. I want to play baseball with my friends, and then ride my bike to the store for Slurpees.
6 July 2010
I am deep in Orphic and Attic imagery at the...
