Tad Williams's Blog, page 53
January 31, 2010
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30 January 2010
Hey, baby, can YOUR doppel gang like this? Tell it to the finger!
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Just spent lunchtime discussing "Hamlet" with Boy. He is willing to listen to my belief that it is a greater work of art than Super Mario Galaxy, but he is reserving final judgement.
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Doppelgänger Week, beeotches!
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Shelly Clift posted this and I'm passing it on to others. It's quite tragic!
xkcd.com
January 29, 2010
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29 January 2010
Doppelgänger Week!
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I told my 13 year old, "You know that thing where I get old and then you support ME? I don't want to wait. Next week, you have to get a job and I'm going to retire." Boy: "Whoa. Is this what senility looks like?"
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I find this oddly soothing. I'm going to keep it open on my desktop. I like to look at the clock, anyway...
[timebeat:]
leogeo.com
28 January 2010
Eek. I tried to correct the misplaced umlaut in my Doppelgänger Week post and wound up removing ...
January 28, 2010
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27 January 2010
As Horace Walpole once said, the world is a tragedy for those who feel, a comedy for those who think, and a noisy mess for those who live in my house.
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I still don't know what that was about. I'm turning into Bemused Dad -- a kind of Thurber character. Things just happen and no one bothers to tell me why, unless it's something gross enough that no one wants to clean it up themselves.
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Girl, the ten-year-old, is standing in the hall shouting "I'm pressing charges!" at my ...
January 26, 2010
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26 January 2010
Tomorrow is Boy's birthday. He'll be 13. The infant creature shaped like a bowling ball (or, with diapers on, like a bowling ball bag with a ball in it) has now grown as tall as his mother. There is nothing I can say about the situation that will not sniff woefully of cliche, but I will say that I'm really happy being a dad.
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This is exactly what it's like to have a thirteen year old son.
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Forgive the redundancy, those who are already on Deborah Beale's friend list -...
January 25, 2010
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25 January 2010
This amused me. Of course, I am easily amused.
Stop-motion battle film by Pes
via Boing Boing
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Official Status: Stuffed so full of SHADOWHEART rewrite that I'm burping 12 point Times.
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I just discovered the most popular phrase that I ever wrote, according to goodreads.com: "As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney." I have no idea of where that...
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24 January 2010
Music day. Hooray, hooray!
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Just found out that Jean Simmons died, age 80. I'm still in love with her Sergeant Sarah Brown from "Guys and Dolls", but she was always fab.
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Had a lovely compromise day with the family. Mom and Dad wanted to go out and walk. Boy and Girl wanted NOT to go out and walk. We compromised by walking around a lot between lunch and buying things. Expensive, but at least we got some exercise.
January 23, 2010
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22 January 2010
I've only heard a few songs by these guys, but I love this album cover so much I'm making it my profile pic. I'm going to stare at it and try to focus myself into having a Chi'en hexagram kind of week. Or else I'll just get depressed and then eat a lot of Cheez Doodles.
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Not waving, not drowning, just dog-paddling and spitting seawater. Pflrrp.
January 22, 2010
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21 January 2010
I'm in a bad mood about various (small, non-life-threatening) things, but fortunately my mope cycle is pretty quick.
This fish is (truly) named a "Sarcastic Fringehead." Now, didn't your day just get better?
Hellbent to get a ton of work done today. I will not waste any time. Not even to announce it on Facebook. So you didn't read this.
January 20, 2010
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20 January 2010
Hey, Teddy, if you think my Courage Wolf profile is awesome, check THIS out! The University of Alaska hockey program promo video -- it's awesome cubed!
Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro from Szymon Weglarski on Vimeo.
19 January 2010
Following on from yesterday's status, a nifty little interview:
Billevesées: Interview: Betty Aberlin
Source: billmadison.blogspot.com
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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a neighborly day in the beauty, would you be mine...? Could you be m...
January 18, 2010
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17 January 2010
Another long day of not getting any writing done. Thank goodness I at least got some cleaning accomplished. Wait, I didn't do that either. Rats.
16 January 2010
The news from Haiti is just heart-wrenching. Those poor people. That poor country.
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Ah, it's Saturday morning. The dulcet screams of our children wrap the house in throbbing good cheer. It's like drinking your coffee on the killing floor of a meat packing plant.
