Shredder's helmet is giving me a serious Sauron-vibe.

You know what blows my mind?

When I was a child, I developed an intense fascination with Diane Duane's "So you want to be a Wizard." (Still, for my money, some of the best young adult fiction ever created.) At the time, my brother was also preparing for a recital of Modeste Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". Somehow, the theme of the book…

God bless beta readers. I think I'd trust one of mine enough to proof songs that I put in (the one from Clarion, mmm), but not most of them

Hi Ann!

Makes me wonder what happens if you take stronger forms of ice, and combine it with with materials that are used to strengthen regular ice, i.e. Pykrete.

Last night, I wrote the twenty thousandth word of a projected 100 thousand word novel. Its set partly in space, and partly on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The Road meets Old Man's War.

I learned to make mushroom waffles.

Always spay and neuter your human.

Unless they have a three sided perimeter.

Chuck Norris isn't worried about how he's going to get down from there without a 'chute.

*Loads LMG*

I like the aged effect so much better.

Well that's the thing. You're cherry picking your argument here. She never said it was useless, she said it was "mostly" useless, and I didn't say it was useless either.

She said that, "aesthetic value aside, the industrial use for gold doesn't really justify its demand" or words to that effect. What else needs to be said?

I love when people just reply, "so?" to long and well-thought-out answers. It lets us know whose jaws to break when the revolution comes.

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I understand and rationally agree with your thoughts on the matter, and yet I still almost peed myself with joy when a deep Google-mine revealed that the White-Juday Interferometer revealed, "Interesting non-null results."

Hi Charles!

I am writing a novel on an iPad*