Month: February 2006
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Finished the First Draft of the Proposal
2700 words, give or take a few. It has a good story; it is, I suspect, short on romance. I’ll go over it and see what I can do to beef up those elements. Argh. Stuff you don’t notice while you’re doing the first draft. Maybe I could do it as straight suspense ….. Hah.…
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Shop Wal-Mart: Buy More Nukes for China
Chinese Nuclear Build-Up Not that this comes as any surprise to anyone, but when a country’s military can profit directly from its business sector, the knick-knacks-to-bombs equation is a single straight line. Sucks, huh? Download as PDFPrint Page
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Got It In One
I needed a guy car. I’m still doing the proposal, though I’m into the last few hundred words. I figured Mustang, but I thought maybe there was a better guy car out there. So I tossed the words “guy car” into search, and got this page. Guy and Chick Cars. The number one guy car?…
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RSS Feeds Fixed
For those of you who would like to get Pocket Full of Words as an RSS feed, you’ll now find working links down on the bottom right-hand column. I have Atom 1.0, Weblog RSS 2.0 (my posts), and Comments RSS 2.0 (your responses). What should have been automatic wasn’t, but everything is working and validates…
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Off Hours
I’ve been up since 3 AM. At the moment, I’m writing on the proposal for Robin (and Claire), after that, I’ll work on the e-book version of HtCB, then I’ll move on to Cady II, and after that, see if I can wrap up the crit I’m currently working on. My work hours are all…
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A Friend of Mine Is In Trouble
I met Judi two years ago via an e-mail from a mutual friend. Even though Judi and I have never met in person, we’ve been through a lot together; two years ago her grandson, newborn, had serious breathing difficulties, failure to gain weight, and other neonatal issues. He wasn’t expected to live. He went through…
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2000 Words of Cady, and Other Things
Finished chapter one of Cady II, which I’m tentatively titling Starburn. In it, Cady kidnaps her one-time friend/colleague/whatever, after first shooting him. I haven’t figured out their relationship yet, but this seems a good time to mention that I suspect it’s going to be tense for a while. I know why she shot him. I…
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Spineless Corporate Weaselturds
How Yahoo sold out free speech for corporate profits. I see red. I do. These shitbags think the bottom line is more important than a human life. And they’ll sell a human being into torture and slavery and eventual death to make the shareholders happy. After all, he’s just some Chinese guy, right? Bastards. Download…
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Two Recommended Articles
WorldWatch – January 15, 2006 – Iraq — Quit or Stay? – The Ornery American National Policy Analysis, Global Warming I’m getting writing on Cady II done at the moment, but I received one of these links from a friend, and found the other one from the first one, and I highly, HIGHLY recommend both.…
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Didn’t Break EVERYthing
I switched over to WordPress 2.01 this morning while I was on the phone with my son. (If it’s 4:30 am his time, he remembers to call.) The site seems to be working correctly, although the RSS feed on the front page of the site is now carrying comments instead of articles. I’m going to…