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October 29, 2009
- Because I live in Australia, traditionally we don't celebrate Halloween. On the other hand, I've never been one to follow tradition... or be very normal, for that matter. So this year, being the year that I graduate from a degree in Computer Game Design, I'm heading to Sydney to see an operetta, namely The Mikado.This would come as no surprise to my close mates - a girl, studying video games and ...
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October 21, 2009
- I'm back from my trip "Across the Pond" and will be sharing some items of news and interest and even a laugh or two over the next few days on this blog. For today however I'm back with my radio show. Tonight it is "A Book and a Chat with Melissa Crandall"At the tender age of six, Melissa Crandall wrote, illustrated, and published her first book, "The Dog and the ...
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October 19, 2009
- Breaking News: Large Hadron Collider is Secret Manager of Goldie Wilson's Mayoral Campaign You know it's going to be a good week when you wake up to read news reports that some people believe that the Large Hadron Collider didn't work because...it traveled back in time to destroy itself.Just sit back and revel in that for a minute. I mean, could it be true? I guess in the sense that nothing is ...
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September 1, 2009
- Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. –Gary Ryan Blair ( Mind Munchies: A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!) I spent the weekend at Context 22, a science fiction/horror/fantasy conference in Columbus, Ohio this ...
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August 8, 2009
- Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!We had asked the entire Red Room community to blog on one topic: "What are your obsessions? Your ...
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July 20, 2009
- 40 years.That's a long time in my book, considering I wasn't yet alive 40 years ago. So, I could sit here and paint a picture of what it was like back in 1969, listening to the Mets make their championship run on the radio, enjoying the sounds of The Beatles in the background, letting my children be the first generation to grow up with Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and much more, but truth be ...
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June 21, 2009
- I've seen some bad movies in recent weeks. OK, yes, I admit that I watched Bride Wars of my own volition. But springtime allergies and antihistamines had impaired my judgment--I wasn't feeling well, and I needed a couple of hours of pay-per-view distraction. Plus, my therapist recently observed me reading John Kelly's very interesting book The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black ...
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June 10, 2009
- Okay..I'm going to do this. Seriously, every day for a week I've been saying, "No politics today, John. Take a break, get your heart rate down, there's other things going on in the world."Then the government goes and does something to remind me what a bunch of ass-clowns we really have running this country.That's right, I said it. Ass-clowns.No, I don't know what the hell an ass-clown ...
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June 3, 2009
- There are a lot of ways in our culture to be a nerd. (Or geek, or whatever.) You can be a video game nerd, a computer nerd, a science-fiction nerd, a fantasy nerd. Terminator, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Babylon Five, Stargate... The possibilities are endless.But before there was Joss Whedon or George Lucas, there was a man named Gene Roddenberry.And before any of those other ...
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May 24, 2009
- I am being organised and focused today, or trying to. Ho hum. But I must admit that when I'm seriously editing, the rest of my life does rather get put on hold. However, here's this morning's meditation:Meditation 131The price of commitmentis bloodand torn flesh,something givenwillinglyby the onewho wants to stay;sometimes the open roaddoes not enchant us.We've also managed to show our faces at ...
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