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Weekend of Turkey, Battlestar, and Potter
As is our custom at the Murkworks, we had our annual Homeless Waifs Thanksgiving Day Turkeyfest, and this time around we had a very respectable turnout of 16 people, including children. Much obliged to mamishka, technoshaman, maellenkleth, dpawtows, epawtows, ypawtows, cflute, sksouth, fredpdx, and Mimi’s friend Chad who all showed up to make a wonderful…
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, Whedon-less edition
A lot of word has been going around the net about how there’s going to be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, without Joss Whedon. My reaction? I think I’ve already lamented enough about the current Hollywood trend of endless reboots, but this in particular seems a particularly silly thing to reboot–after all, the original…
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PSA: Great Big Sea @ the Moore in March on presale TOMORROW!
This just in: tickets go on sale on greatbigsea.com for the show at the Moore on March 12th of next year, TOMORROW at 10am! The show will be on a delicious, delicious SATURDAY, so Seattle peeps, if you think you want in on the goodness and you aren’t already a member of the site–i.e., if…
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New record for WORST COMMUTE EVER
Those of you who follow me on Facebook and/or Twitter saw me live-tweeting this last night, but for those of you who follow me from the blog or LJ or DW, here’s the epic saga of Anna’s Worst Commute Ever! My previous commute record was set back in 2006, roughly three and a half hours…
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How to read ebooks, Part 3: Touchscreen vs. e-ink
Here’s part 3 of my little series of posts about ebooks and ereaders! As I’ve mentioned on previous posts, this series of posts about how to read ebooks and what ereader you might want to get focuses on what reading devices I’ve had personal experience with: the nook and the iPhone. The nook: E-ink is…
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How to read ebooks, Part 2: Ebook pricing
This is the post where I get a bit into the agency pricing model, how it’s affected what books you can buy where, and how much you can expect to pay for them.
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How to read ebooks, Part 1: Ebook formats
Depending on where you get your ebooks from, they’ll come in several different and often proprietary formats. If you’ve been an ebook reader for a while, you’ll know as well that several formats that used to be in play have fallen out of favor. It can get pretty confusing pretty fast. So this post is…
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What kind of e-reader should you get? Posts to come!
As y’all know, I’m an e-author as well as a voracious reader of ebooks. So I get asked about this semi-regularly, and just this afternoon keethrax was the latest person to ask me about recommendations for e-readers. So I thought I’d do me a series of posts about ebooks and e-reading devices. I don’t have…
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I got paid!
And I still have room on the nook (although I’m getting close to needing a memory card for the thing)! So y’all should be able to guess what that means. Yes, that’s right: another book roundup! Purchased electronically recently (and most of these were last night): And, bought this morning in print, just because I…
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Daniel Craig + Old West + aliens + Harrison Ford = AWESOME
I just saw this post go up on tor.com, and most of it I was all “yeah yeah yeah whatever” about, until I got to the trailer at the bottom. The one that involves Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in a movie set in the Old West with ALIENS. Money quote: If you need one…
