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Finding a Great Author
The author is John Scalzi. I recently finished his first book “Old Man’s War
Review of “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay
Deconstructing books is never fun, so I’m not going to go on about why this one doesn’t work. If you have any interest in this book, watch the Showtime series instead. The series takes everything good in this book and builds on it, adding complexity, structure, and nuance where they were absent in the book. This wasn’t a good read for me.
Amazon link: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
On Reviews and Reviewing
I’m a fan of reviews and thoughtful criticism. I also like to write reviews, but I’ve had a hard time figuring out what to do with them. Read More
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constraints and joy
At first I didn’t understand twitter, but I’ve come to enjoy it.
As a hobbiest writer, I appreciate the challenge of 140 characters. Strunk said to Omit needless words, but twitter advances the concept. If I have a complex or multistep thought and want to tweet it, on a geeky level I like trying to cram it into such a short space.
For example, no paired em-dashes in a twitter sentence. Four characters. Cram a semicolon and space in there instead.
When I tweet, the constraint makes me think harder about language, about punctuation. Anything that makes me think harder, I enjoy.
Persistent Television is Awesome
One of the great joys of this modern world is the ability to discover cool video that isn’t perfectly current. Read More
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Why I Should Read Less
I had a draft of an essay in my google docs called “Being Cool is Expensive”. Couple hundred words, unpolished. Then I saw “New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable” from the Onion, which said everything I wanted to say, but better than I could have said it.
The draft will die in my unpublished folder. Also, time to unsubscribe from The Onion.
Credit is a Hobby
Credit scores have a lot of reach into your quality of life. Luckily, I took an interest in the topic years ago and doing so helped me get my family into a home.
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Personalization and Co-opted Affection
I’ve had my Nexus One (the current googlephone) for a couple of months now, and it’s been enjoyable. I bought it knowing that it’d be a useful toy. Read More »