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    Freakin’ Smoke!

    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    Right now, there are an estimated 842 wildfires burning in California. All of them are mostly in the northern part of the state, which is definitely unusual; the southernmost fire is burning in Monterey. There have been about 6,000 lightning strikes, and apparently these strikes are responsible for most of the fires. At the moment [...]

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    Some Names…

    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    There are some names that are supposed to last forever. Names that you grow up with, or that come to you at a significant point in your life and change your direction. I remember when I learned that Charles Schultz had died; the guy who had created Peanuts was supposed to last forever because I’d [...]

    This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm and is filed under Just a Day in My Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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    Daikaijuzine reopens for submissions tomorrow

    Friday, June 20th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    Just in case you weren’t keeping track, Daikaijuzine reopens to submissions tomorrow.

    This entry was posted on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 11:49 am and is filed under Just a Day in My Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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    Great moments in book marketing

    Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    First, I was happy to see that Tolstoy is still churning out books; in the "New Fiction" section, I found War and Peace. I guess it was a sequel or something.
    Second, from the cover of Rogue Angel: The Soul Stealer: "Fearing the unknown can be scary." Um. Well, yeah, I suppose it would be. Except [...]

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    Random, disappointing observation

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    So, after seeing The Happening with my wife and my good friend Dale Emery, I drove home, stopping at the Colonial Heights library on Stockton Boulevard on the way. I was listening to Dreams from my Father, by Barack Obama, and feeling very proud of myself for being a liberal Democrat who supports an African [...]

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    And it’s over.

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    The worst part was what happened to Pat Robertson, who came to California to berate us, telling us that the zombies had attacked us because we had given gays the right to marry and then done the same for the zombies. He had drawn a huge crowd of conservatives and family rights folks to his [...]

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    Give ‘em an inch…

    Saturday, June 14th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    Aw crap!
    The zombies got too much. They’ve become emboldened by their victory in the California State Legislature and Assembly, and now they’re walking the streets! People are being attacked, dragged to the ground, eaten in ways that are just so typically zombie.
    I can hear the conservative commentators chortling away on the radio even as I [...]

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    Victory for Undead Rights!

    Friday, June 13th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    After long intense meetings with the Governor, the California Assembly and Legislature have passed legislation recognizing the rights of metabolically challenged Americans everywhere to marry, vote, and enjoy all the rights that other Americans have as well.
    Victory for humanity, alive and otherwise, everywhere? Or sure sign of the apocalypse?
    There are of course those who say [...]

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    Backlash: Get Your Jaws Off My Brains

    Friday, June 13th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    I suppose that a backlash against the zombie rights movement was inevitable. Too many people are entrenched in the old ways of doing things. I think the last straw, though, really was when the undead contingent, enheartened by the recent victory of the gay rights movement, starting demanding the right to marry the living. As [...]

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    The Zombie Menace in Sacramento

    Friday, June 13th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    While zombies are apparently wreaking havoc and devastation worldwide, here in Sacramento, California, life seems to be going on as normal. For the most part, at least. I mean, it’s California. When you’re undead and bored and you’ve exhausted the cerebral eateries in the rest of the continent, where else are you going to go [...]

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    Zombie attack on hold

    Friday, June 13th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    Yargh. Work’s been awfully busy today what with me reporting to my boss on my experiences at MoodleMoot and various attempts to integrate Articulate with Moodle through SCORM I just haven’t had time to blog about the zombie attacks.
    Why couldn’t Friday the 13th have come on a Saturday?

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    Ugh… Not sleepy at all

    Friday, June 13th, 2008
    Category: bliteotw

    Past midnight here in California and I have work tomorrow. The week’s been pretty long already what with the conference and my lungs acting up today and all the whatnot.
    Yes, the lungs. We’re experiencing a drought in California. It must be true, because Governor Schwarzenegger said so, and the Terminator doesn’t lie. Plus it’s been [...]

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    Quick Note

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008
    Category: I Should Have Been a Firefighter, bliteotw

    On the whole, MoodleMoot 2008 was pretty good and I’m glad I went. There were good panels, many of which, like any self respecting panel in any event where you have a bunch of nerds gathered, went over their time limit.
    I focused on the panels that seemed most appropriate to my situation. There were a [...]

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    Basil? Is that you?

    Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    I admit that I put off finding a hotel until pretty close to the last minute, so maybe I should have expected that things wouldn’t go perfectly well. Still, when I first spoke with the front desk clerk to make my reservation, the fact that I had this conversation should have alerted me that the [...]

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    Why the English Language is awesome

    Saturday, June 7th, 2008
    Category: Just a Day in My Life

    A word I vaguely remembered last night from my high school English classes:
    e·ruc·ta·tion (ĭ-rŭk-tā’shən, ē’rŭk-) n. the act or an instance of belching.
    And another word that was brought up at work a couple of weeks ago:
    con·tu·ma·cious (kon-too-mey-shuhs, -tyoo-) adj. stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
    We discussed this at our write-in last night. One [...]

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