29 Sep
I just got an odd spam email. It appears to be a variant on the tried and true 419 scams:
hello,
I am Rev.Louis. Grant, I need to book reservation for a movie stars
group from Nigeria coming to shut film at your location on the 3rd -10th Dec 2007.
However, they will be 4 delegates and what […]
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29 Sep
I found this on the Bad Gods website, where it was published under the Creative Commons license. It was far too awesome not to immediately turn around and share.
It entertained me so much I went and bought the full track from iTunes Music Store, “Linus and Lucy” by Gary Hoey on Bruce Brown’s - […]
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26 Sep
This angry looking little bald guy is the new face of publishing. Hard to imagine it from this picture; he looks more like some guy come to collect money you owe than a surprisingly successful and talented author. This is Scott Sigler. He is the author of the wildly successful podcast novels […]
Posted in Podcast Fiction, Books and Authors by: corwin
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26 Sep
I’m a veteran of the early days of the OS Holy Wars. Back in the late 90s, I was a Linux zealot, no doubt about it. I vilified the Microsoft Evil Empire every chance I got, and, for a while, got myself entirely off of their software. Back then, it wasn’t easy; […]
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24 Sep
It’s been a terrible long wait, filled with withdrawal, but tonight, Heroes finally returned with a strong season premier. Picking up four months after the events in the season one finale, it had a lot of catching up to give to us, introducing us to many (but not all) of the characters’ new situations. […]
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19 Sep
My apologies for taking so long to get this one out. Life keeps happening to me, and I keep feeling the need to spend the evening listening to podcasts and playing on XBox Live Arcade. But I’m finally going to sit down and knock out the rest of my Dragon*Con adventures. If […]
Posted in Podcast Fiction, Technology, Comics, Dragon*Con, Video Games, Television, Movies, Books and Authors, Gaming, Podcasts by: corwin
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19 Sep
Avast, me hearties! Let it be known that today be that most favored o’ holidays, International Talk Like a Pirate Day. While some o’ us walk t’ walk each and every day, today all o’ ye scallywags need t’ get out thar and talk t’ talk. Take t’ opportunity to rise in […]
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13 Sep
If you’re just joining us, go check out Part 1 of my Dragon*Con odyssey.
Following the extremely entertaining events of the Sigler-Hutchins party (which I hope either Chad or Lizzi will get some free time and energy to describe, as they tell it much better than I do), we headed back to the room. Lizzi […]
Posted in Podcast Fiction, Technology, Comics, Dragon*Con, Video Games, Television, Movies, Books and Authors, Gaming, Podcasts by: corwin
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12 Sep
This afternoon, Chad posted that he had found a new gaming store up here on my side of town. It apparently had its grand opening last month on the eighteenth. I was naturally intrigued, especially after having found a new comics shop myself over the weekend. So when I got off work […]
Posted in Family, Gaming by: corwin
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10 Sep
Episode title: “The Line”
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