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Valentine’s Day, with music
came to the realization this weekend that she really needed a decent bodhran to finish up her CD, given that her little Kimi, which is essentially a toy, just wasn’t cutting it. So since we’re recovering well financially, we scampered down to Dusty Strings yesterday to get her a real drum! They didn’t have the…
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Book Log #10: Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, by Samuel R. Delaney
My gut reaction to Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, the first Samuel R. Delaney I’ve ever read, was pretty much this: it feels like something I might have read for a college course on influential SF authors, rather than something I’d ordinarily have read for fun. I have a very definite respect…
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The Nook Report, Part 2
Now that I’ve had a few days to read on the Nook, here are my thoughts on the experience. First and foremost, I am sold on the virtue of a one-use reading device for a reason I hadn’t foreseen: if all the device does is show you the books, there’s nothing on it to distract…
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Still time to get a nomination in
Y’all have until Tuesday to get me in a nomination for the What Should Anna Name Her Nook? poll! I’ve had a lot of good suggestions, folks, but there’s still room for more. Can you top ‘Peregrin Nook’? How about ‘Nookronomicon’? Get your ideas in before the official poll opens!
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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…
