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Dungeon Siege is my “oh my god, I have no internet connection” game on my laptop. When I saw what looked to be a cheesy generic fantasy flick trailer on the TV this weekend, I had no desire to go (Eragon cured me of that) (and yes, I’ve been told the book was way better). … Read more

I was surfing around through the WordPress site, looking for ways to make my blog even yet more awesome, when I followed a link to Technorati, did an ego search on my own blog and had a bit of a WTF moment when I found I had more “authority” than a lot of blogs way … Read more

I just last night got back from a trip back to San Diego to celebrate my grandson’s first birthday and a little early Christmas with my daughter and her husband (that JUST MIGHT have involved some Super Mario Galaxy!) It was also a shakedown for the Sony Reader. I didn’t bring any books, and I … Read more

I owned a house up in Monterey, California. I loved that old house; I raised my kids and my cats there, and it had oodles of space, and I had books pretty much everywhere. Two book cases in the garage, two in the family room with the computer, two in my bedroom, a huge one … Read more

We went and saw this… disturbing movie today. I’m not sure I would call it a movie. Maybe a war between the antagonist and the movie, as if the antagonist had decided that conventional ways of telling the story weren’t going to end well for him, and so he fought back, changed things around. This … Read more