Yup, just ordered a John C. Wright book from Amazon. I'd hit 4 chain stores in town (2 B&N, 2 Borders) in the last month, just keeping an eye out for any of his work (SF&F). Nothing. They have 2 shelves of Twilight books, and just 8 or 10 major or hot authors and that's it. Aaaaaaugh!
Naw. As a lit major (for 2 years), yeah, it bugs me when people make simple mistakes with grammar but as someone who writes using colloquialisms and slang as part of my characters' development, I believe all language usage is allowed. But like any tool, it really helps if people know how to use it. Most net speak is like watching people use a garden trow at a restaurant.
That was the first toys I made for my kid. 'Course, I did add channels and holes so they could be used to make marble runs. Just made her a simple toy boat and yeah, is fav toy. Beats out all the plastic crap she's acquired when its bath time.
It helps if there are books in the house and the kids see adults reading instead of just zoning out in front of the tv/computer. 'Course, you can over do it. We're clearing daughter's room (9 years old) for painting and we've already filled 12 boxes of books (small moving boxes). Like cool toys, I think we use her as an excuse to buy interesting kid's books.
It's funny but when I was a kid (mid '70's), there just wasn't as many books out there for kids and YA, as there are now. On the flip side, this pushed me in to adult lit much faster (Greek legends to Homer, Tolkien to... ok, wasn't much else in his league then, Heinlein juveniles to Heinlein adult, then on to Bradbury, Clarke, etc). No idea when our daughter may move beyond Percy Jackson and such. We are making available a lot of the Newbery winners and she enjoys those as much as she does fantastic lit. and may bring in some Steinbeck next year.
Also, Walden's was about the only source of books, out in suburbia. I remember the first time my Mom took me to a real book store (Haslam's in St. Pete, Fla) and just how cool it was. I figure these kind of individual stores will hang around a lot longer than chain stores.
I still get most of my reading suggestions from friends and John Scalzi's blog; Whatever. He not only reviews several books a month, he posts essays from authors on how and why they developed a book. Is cool having some background info and knowing where the writer's coming from with their work.
Could also be production techniques have finally matured to where it's not prohibitively expensive. Was reading last week how Los Alamos lab has figured out a production process that makes it much cheaper and easier to manufacture kilometer+ lengths of super conducting cable.
And then my brain punishes me by stabbing pains behind the eyes.
I have the same problem FPS games. Back in the early 90's, would only start getting a headache after playing Marathon for more than 12 hours. Once Quake II came out, was down to about 4 hours game time. Finally, Quake3/Unreal Tournament was only tolerable for an hour or so. Gave up on FPS and now just play SMAC/X over and over and over again.
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...to keep them from escaping
Once they get a taste for humans...
Nah-na-nah-na-nah!
They blocked Ted Kennedy back when the TSA got started. Glad they didn't have these scanners then.
Maybe Scotty can recover it from the buffer?
Tourists suck! They always drive to slow and make left turns from the right turn lane.
3. We are developing the ability to forecast "space weather", thus leading to a new field, astrometeorology
Aw, great, astrometeorologists, with bad hair pieces and stupid patter.
Yup, just ordered a John C. Wright book from Amazon. I'd hit 4 chain stores in town (2 B&N, 2 Borders) in the last month, just keeping an eye out for any of his work (SF&F). Nothing. They have 2 shelves of Twilight books, and just 8 or 10 major or hot authors and that's it. Aaaaaaugh!
Naw. As a lit major (for 2 years), yeah, it bugs me when people make simple mistakes with grammar but as someone who writes using colloquialisms and slang as part of my characters' development, I believe all language usage is allowed. But like any tool, it really helps if people know how to use it. Most net speak is like watching people use a garden trow at a restaurant.
As for Grammar Nazi's, QoH has that covered.
That was the first toys I made for my kid. 'Course, I did add channels and holes so they could be used to make marble runs. Just made her a simple toy boat and yeah, is fav toy. Beats out all the plastic crap she's acquired when its bath time.
Heh. You're being ironical.
It helps if there are books in the house and the kids see adults reading instead of just zoning out in front of the tv/computer. 'Course, you can over do it. We're clearing daughter's room (9 years old) for painting and we've already filled 12 boxes of books (small moving boxes). Like cool toys, I think we use her as an excuse to buy interesting kid's books.
It's funny but when I was a kid (mid '70's), there just wasn't as many books out there for kids and YA, as there are now. On the flip side, this pushed me in to adult lit much faster (Greek legends to Homer, Tolkien to... ok, wasn't much else in his league then, Heinlein juveniles to Heinlein adult, then on to Bradbury, Clarke, etc). No idea when our daughter may move beyond Percy Jackson and such. We are making available a lot of the Newbery winners and she enjoys those as much as she does fantastic lit. and may bring in some Steinbeck next year.
Also, Walden's was about the only source of books, out in suburbia. I remember the first time my Mom took me to a real book store (Haslam's in St. Pete, Fla) and just how cool it was. I figure these kind of individual stores will hang around a lot longer than chain stores.
I still get most of my reading suggestions from friends and John Scalzi's blog; Whatever. He not only reviews several books a month, he posts essays from authors on how and why they developed a book. Is cool having some background info and knowing where the writer's coming from with their work.
And for some reason, they put their full suite of development tools on there as an optional install?
Are they nuts?
Too much LDS?
Could also be production techniques have finally matured to where it's not prohibitively expensive. Was reading last week how Los Alamos lab has figured out a production process that makes it much cheaper and easier to manufacture kilometer+ lengths of super conducting cable.
Those are Doritos, thank you very much!
And then my brain punishes me by stabbing pains behind the eyes.
I have the same problem FPS games. Back in the early 90's, would only start getting a headache after playing Marathon for more than 12 hours. Once Quake II came out, was down to about 4 hours game time. Finally, Quake3/Unreal Tournament was only tolerable for an hour or so. Gave up on FPS and now just play SMAC/X over and over and over again.
I hate my brain.
Maybe if there was a way to bypass the eye ball and inject 3d directly to the brain? Maybe using big needles through the eyes?
Yup, Macs are toy computers not meant for serious work.
The witch with the bouncers from Black Caldron.
What? I'm old!
Um, aren't the Martian swamps where the dinosaurs and hot cave women chicks live?
In Soviet U.S., airport security enters you!
I love H. Beam Piper's stuff but yeah, having people setting signs in front of their video phone saying 'Back in 3 hours' is rather jarring.
It's Outlook. It messes up everything.
I was thinking of using it to deflect space debris. By modulating it, you could induce many fanciful beams and radiations to the surrounding area.