Month: February 2010
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My February blog tour guest: Hamish MacDonald
This month for the blog tour, I’m hosting Hamish MacDonald, a fellow member of the Outer Alliance. Many people turn up their noses at the concept of self-publishing, but Hamish avoids all of the usual issues with that–he not only writes his own books, he designs, prints, hand-binds, and sells them, too. He is, in…
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Exercise update
I’m down to 178 pounds as of this morning, which is frankly stunning to me. That’s three pounds for this week, which is twice as much as I was expecting based on earlier performance in this whole endeavor. And it’s down a half a pound from yesterday, even though I had two breadsticks with pizza.…
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Book Log #9: Fall of Light, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
I only realized partway into Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s Fall of Light that this was actually a sequel to a previous book: A Fistful of Sky. I elected to keep reading anyway, but I can’t help but wonder if I’d read the other book first, whether this one would have made more sense. This one’s premise…
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Heads up, LJ peeps
For several days now, LJ’s feed of custom styles has been broken–which has meant that the custom style I set up to let it download a feed of my Friends list into my mail client hasn’t worked, so I’m totally behind on keeping up with all of you! If anybody posted anything addressed specifically at…
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And now, the Nook report!
Nookish goodness arrived at my house today! Therefore, as promised, here’s my overall initial review post. First and foremost, y’all may have heard that the Nook comes with insanely complicated packaging. This is absolutely true. When you first get into it, there’s a little slip of paper that has–I kid you not–a seven-step procedure for…
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Assorted bits of housekeeping
Did some work this afternoon and evening during the Super Bowl to clean up various bits of annathepiper.org as well as the journals it mirrors out to. This included: Deleting my InsaneJournal account; don’t really need it since I’m on both JournalFen and Dreamwidth, and nobody ever answers my posts on IJ Un-mirroring a lot…
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Conflikt was fun
Several of you who read my journal in whatever iteration already know this since you were actually there, but hey, Conflikt! That was fun. This was the first year that and I got to attend the whole convention, which was nice. We still pulled a commuter con, which was not quite so ideal; next year,…
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Book roundup post
I may have shiny nookity goodness on the immediate horizon, but this ain’t stopping me from buying print books when the occasion calls for it. And the new release of Alcestis by Katharine Beutner warranted it. This is a new retelling of the Greek myth about Alcestis–only in this version, when she winds up in…
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And now, a gratuitous icon post!
It occurred to me that if I was going to go around calling my LJ “Ordinary Day”, I should damn well have a default icon that reflects that. So for the benefit of those of you looking at this on my various LJ-flavored sites, check out the Alan and Sean loverliness. That shot is of…
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Nominations are now OPEN
Ladies and gentlemen, now is the time for you to submit your nominations for the following vital question: “What should Anna name her Nook?” I shall accept nominations for the next two weeks, so you have until February 16th to submit your suggestions! On that day I shall open an official poll for voting, and…