Turkeys

Short week this week. Thank goodness. Shaky's out for the duration.

Wednesday is City Hall to deal with the rezoning smackdown of the used car lot owner.

Thursday-Sunday, we'll be in Atlanta to see K's aunt & uncle, and hopefully a friend of mine. I plan to get a lot of reading done, which reminds me that I should get some new books.

The upcoming Full Throttle flavor tastes pretty damn good when mixed with peach or orange vodka. I forsee it being popular in bars.

In WoW news, the followup Hooray, Death! run yesterday went pretty well, considering we were using a bug for a tank. :-) I made a lot of personal progress with my primary alt on Lothar, blowing through a bunch of quests in Stranglethorn Vale, and am on the cusp of making level 38. Saturday was the best pick-up group ever - four hours in Arathi, farming elites to complete missions, and NO casualties. Sure, it's disappointingly sober, but it was a heck of an accomplishment at the time. :-)

Not a whole lot more to report - had a good workout at the gym yesterday, and am finally feeling trimmer and more fit (and the scale even agrees, both in terms of gravity and body fat). . . you know, just in time to pig out on dead bird and stuffing.

Shorter Short Shorts

[which has nothing to do with shortshort, incidentally]

Cell phone SMS text message retellings of classics in literature.

Naturally, there's a stuffed shirt who insists that the irony and nuance is lost. . . frankly, so is a lot of the blubber (hello, Dickens, you paid-by-the-line asshat).

Makes me want to try my hand at it.

Trn&trn, bird cn't hr flcnr.
Falln apart, ctr brks.
ANARCHY. evrybdy frks out 4 2nd comng.
? rgh beast go2 bthlhm 4bday?

Boox

The ones I've read are in bold.

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. 1984 -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham

Maybe I'll pick from this for the Atlanta trip. . . .

[from http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2005/11/09/top_20_geek_novels_the_results.html]

Linkfest

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