Started again...

[silveradept]

...although today it took me until about 9 to finally wake up (luckily, no incidents that I know of happened while I may or may not have been thinking in an extended manner at the desk). But from there, I read an e-text of a book. Funny enough, I might just go out and get the dead trees version of it, because it was that good. Judge for yourself as to the skills of this author, who has put a few texts available for free through a Creative Commons License. The text I read today was Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town. There are other works available as well, none of which I have yet read. This is kind of like those CDs that come packaged with books - the ones with fulltexts of several books on them. So far, so good.

While you read, if you need something for your hands to do, why not mix up a batch of Playdough and use that? Better use of your money than purchasing some Spray-On Mud, wouldn't you agree?

I seem to recall a very long time ago a User Friendly sequence about a cute little daemon who tried to convince A.J. that he wanted to run BSD. Well, it's not in UF, but that daemon is back again, and he's managed an audience in Forbes, no less. I think I'll be able to make a few S'mores out of the resulting heat.

The best link for tonight for you all, however, is a columnist who not only "gets it" when it comes to issues the Left wants changed, he's processed it and presented it in a format that even the Cross-Eyed Knuckle-Scraping Morons can understand. While the article itself is only about gay and lesbian affairs, the methodologies can probably be expanded outward to most, if not all, of the Left's goals and the Right's resistances to them. Definitely worth a read.

The potentially worst link is the (now-old) realization that MasterCard credit data may have been filched to the tune of forty million cardholder accounts and numbers. Amazing what someone and their computer can do, isn't it?

More work tomorrow - only two weeks to go before I have to find another job or hope that I'll get really rich by putting work into trying to publish my thesis as an article (ah-hah-hah...) Well, if there's no work available, that will be a project worth re-taking up. If I'm motivated to do it, and don't spend my time playing Evil Genius or something like that.

And I had late-night fun tonight - got to see D.C. Simpson play and sing tonight and meet another of the Order of Jubal - Darth Paradox was at the locale and I chatted with him for a considerable amount of time. I think I'm going back next week, too. Because I'm probably going to buy his CD. And then beyond that, possibly even more stuff, but related to the comic strips he does. Most of my money, now that I think about it, is mortgaged to various people and places that I said I would buy from once I had stable footing. I hope they eventually remind me of it.

Comments

[tinchen.livejournal.com]

I can't get myself to read e-books, I don't like reading long text on the screen. I sometimes fight my way through this or that because I don't want to print it all out, but if something's longer than your entry I usually skip it.

[silveradept]

It takes some finesse and a few regular breaks to be able to get through a lot of text on screen - of course, in the case of that book, it helped that it was an interesting story. I'll admit to doing a few "tl:dr" on some things I come across, but it's usually because of the dry technical language getting in the way of my interest in the subject. (Says the guy who wrote a 60-page thesis.)