December 2
A few months ago I signed up for an account with Audible, an online subscription service wherein one pays for a certain number of monthly credits that can be redeemed for mp3 versions of audiobooks. It’s completely legit, by the way, Audible acting as a certified reseller of digital media — and not [...]

And if you were one of those chicken littles, running about broadcasting insane claims about and impending end of the world due to a physics experiment in Switzerland, for shame. Don’t be messing with quantum physics. It’ll mess with you.
I did recently read Flashforward by Robert J Sawyer which is definitely recommended. And [...]

We’ve been here before. I’m a bit of a sucker for the pop-culture and philosophy book series, and recently added another two volumes to my collection, a collection that now counts as a “Collection” because it contains seven volumes. For those unfamiliar, there are now a couple publishers who now regularly put out [...]

It’s been about a month and a half since the Sony E-book Reader found its way into my stack of books, and while it has not been the exclusive purveyor of reading material in my life (note as a couple of examples the “Steampunk Anthology” and “Insect Field Guide“) it has been first fiddle, so [...]

In light of discovering a wolf spider scampering across my strawberry patch last week, a cerulean blue egg sac nearly the size of a marble clenched dorsally to its abdomen — and in particular the disappointing difficulty I encountered attempting to classify it using online resources — I ordered and just yesterday received a copy [...]

Most of you like as not will not care, but if you’ve been salivating at the notion of more sporadic talk here about steampunk, et cetera, Jeff Vandermeer is offering via his blog personalized (read: signed and scribbled) copies of a new anthology he co-edited with his wife. I ordered mine.
If you can’t wait, [...]

All that pomp about reading and reading lists has strung me onto a reading meme, courtesy Jess. I’d claim (a) ignorance of the tag (but technorati splashed it in my face the moment I logged in), or (b) indifference (but what fun is that) or even (c) lack of time (but really, I’m just [...]

The new toy arrived via secret import channels yesterday, and I spent a couple hours last night adding files, poking buttons, and generally enjoying my super-slick ebook reader. A fairly basic little machine, there is nothing particularly special about the behind-the-scenes technology that powers the device. Sure, it doesn’t have a wi-fi connection, touch-screen, faster [...]

four… (the countdown to seven years!)
I recently mentioned that I had ordered a couple new books from Amazon that were specifically cartooning and drawing technique books. They arrived late last week and I’ve had few days to flip through them and take in some of the details. Both are reprints of really old books — [...]

As the reading list fluxes as if it were written on the bellows of an old accordion, I find I need to devote some blog space to the manifestation of my own personal opinion of these efforts. I’ve just recently read:
jPod by Douglas Coupland. Extracted from the gritty bowels of post-bubble apathetic technolust, Coupland revisits [...]

We’re all on the mend here after a few days of moderate (though merely annoying) head-colds, one of the souvenirs we brought back from Portland. (Alice will likely feel guilty ’cause I wrote that, but after her generous hospitality the least we could do is take some germs off her hands.) As far as [...]

I’ve been endeavoring to get through my reading list. Sometime back in February I sat down and physically wrote out a list of the twenty (or so) books that I had either (a) started, (b) personally committed to reading or (c) paid too much for to not read soon and tacked the list beside [...]