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Apple takes a bite of the Rose
The Crimson Rose is now on the Apple store.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-crimson-rose/id1566023843
My apple suggestion while reading: Delicious.
The Crimson Rose, In Stores
It's Alive! Part Deux
Ok, the site is live. Hurray! But it's not quite where I want it to be yet, design-wise. So please don't be alarmed if the look changes as I play with things. Or break things. There'll be a fine line there...
It's Alive!
A new site, hooray! Big news coming soon!
I'm not a big social media person, but I'll work on posting more frequently - whether photos, interesting news (to me), or whatever randomness my brain spits out.
A Few of My Favorite...Sings.
Yeah...been a while since I had anything to say but while digging out from under tons of snow, inspiration struck. Thanks for that snowball.
Anyway, the radio stations near me seem to play the same selections by the same artists...over and over. Andy Williams and Karen Carpenter weren't the only …
A Few of My Favorite Sings
The radio stations near me seem to play the same selections by the same artists...over and over. Andy Williams and Karen Carpenter weren't the only people to sing Christmas songs, and as much as I like to be creeped out by Dean Martin's Baby It's Cold Outside, there are quite a few songs I'd like t…
Hearing Things
So I walked into the garage and heard strange music playing from...somewhere. And not cd quality music, I'm talking music box type plinky-plinky music. As I listened, I realized it was Christmas music. Actually quite creepy. Felt like I was entering some horror flick.
After a search akin to trying …
Kateri Tekakwitha Canonized
Years ago, my father designed the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Sparta, NJ (one of my favorite churches, and the subject of my thesis).
Great to see she's finally getting her due.

Encyclopedia Brown, RIP.
Encyclopedia Brown Creator, Donald Sobal Dies

Loved the Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid.
But 25 cents a day plus expenses? Lucy Van Pelt only charges a nickel for a whole psychiatric work up.
Hit by a Semi
I'm only just starting to understand semi-colons. Every explanation I ever got, from teachers to books, was so mired down in Bill Cosby-esque grammar-speak (ya see, you puts the independsin clauses in with the jell-o puddin' pops, and separate it with an ah-gaaah) I could never figure it out.
Now I…
Lo(o)sing it.
We all have words we have trouble spelling or using correctly. No matter how many times I read the rules for using lay and lie, I always have to double-check. But there are some words we just need to stop misspelling.
Neal Stephenson - Clang Kickstarter
Neal Stephenson - Clang Kickstarter
Neal Stephenson: my new favorite author. And I don't think I've read any of his books. Yet.
Even if you aren't interested in kick-starting anything, this video is worth watching.
By The Pricking of My Thumbs...
Rest in peace, Ray Bradbury, author of one of my all-time favorites, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases
A friend of mine posted this on facebook, but I thought it worth mentioning here: http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/mispron.html
Interesting article on mispronounced words and phrases, but I am skeptical of a few. Are people really saying "a blessing in the skies" instead of "a ble…
Something Lost in Translation
I moderate a forum for a game company and it, like many internet forums, is subjected to spam. These range from selling World of Warcraft gold to selling Russian brides. Yes...Russian brides. Sometimes amongst the spam you find a real gem. Here was one that was posted recently. There were links to dubious sites but I removed the links, leaving the text...which is why you will see some references to NFL jerseys.
I assume this was originally in another language and the "author" used something to auto-translate it. The result = hysterical.
So, here it is, in all its glory:
In fact, the house is so great, authentic nfl jerseys why go to summer Seoul home, the Secretary homework? There is also the story.Saying many do not want to go home after school, ranking you bamboo will rock to a half floor, and then stay for waited a long time, then ranks you bamboo is still the elite schools, though usually not a good student, but she has been trying to does not aim at, but they try, the daily operations or total sell teachers face it.
Holding on to Youth
I was just having a discussion with a friend about how almost every agent wants Young Adult (no epic adult fantasy, thank you), when it seems fewer young adults are actually reading books.
My thought was that it isn't young adults reading such books...it is adults. Adults are eating up Harry Potter…
Studying the Obvious, They Still Miss the Mark
Saw this linked on Blues News: Video games can teach how to shoot guns more accurately and aim for the head
In other news, people who play golf video games using actual golf clubs tend to do better when playing real golf than those who use gamepads. /rolleyes
Really, we needed a study for this? If…
Storybending, an RPG
A friend of mine has been working on his own pen-and-paper role-playing game entitled "Storybending:"
I choose that name because during play-testing it grew apparent that the game-play that really sets SB apart is about adapting and modifying the story. In a lot of story or role-playing systems (li…
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