Posts from February 2008

Free eBook of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War

Posted on 19 Feb 2008 · tagged , , · comments off

In anicipatory promotion of their big, new SF website, Tor books is giving away the eBook of John Scalzi’s excellent military SF novel, Old Man’s War. It’s one of the best novels I’ve read in the last five or six years. The sequels are pretty good, too.

Open Source Storage Unit #3

Posted on 15 Feb 2008 · tagged , · comments off

Open Source Storage Unit #3I’m totally building an Open Source Storage Unit #3 for our living room to replace our current television altar.

The plans are available from the designer and are really pretty ingenious. I plan on making one when we get back from Germany in March.

65 T-shirt blogs

Posted on 13 Feb 2008 · tagged , · comments off

ALL the t-shirt blogs you’ll ever want/need. It took me about 10 minutes of perusal to spend $100 (well, 100 virtual dollars, as I haven’t actually bought anything yet).

Coen Bros. to make film of The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon

Posted on 13 Feb 2008 · tagged , , · comments off

YES! My favorite movie-makers take on one of my favorite writers and a really interesting novel. Read it now before the movie comes out.

Leisureguy’s shaving blog

Posted on 12 Feb 2008 · tagged , , · comments off

Leisureguy’s shaving posts from his blog. Lots of great stuff here. I’m about to take the DE plunge, I think. I hate shaving, so I do it only when I have to (meeting with a client, date, etc.) and rarely more than three times a week.

I SHOULD shave every day, though. Part of my “n steps to a new me” plan includes shaving every day. More on the plan as it unfolds.