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Monthly Archives February 2006

Review: Beyond Twilight – Section X

Band: Beyond Twilight Country: Denmark Album: Section X, released June 15, 2005 in the USA Label: Nightmare Records Genre: Sci-Fi themed Progressive Metal Section X is, to put it bluntly, a masterpiece. With Finn Zierler on Keyboards and as producer and the driving creative force behind the band, they have brushed aside all conventions and [...]

Posted 24 February 2006 † Yuletide § Music § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Digital Storyness, Maybe?

Ever since I was little I’ve loved working with my hands — pushing buttons, touching, breaking things, drawing, writing… One of my early memories is of building things with legos. I’d haul out the blue bin full of an endless assortment of pieces: straight, thin, thick, long, clear, curved, 3×6′s, 2×2′s, sheets, wings, jet engines, [...]

Posted 20 February 2006 † Yuletide § Digital Stories ‡ Comments (0) °

Yeesh…

From The Digital Storycenter Cookbook If I can get more attention for the kind of shoes I wear or the style of my hair at one-tenth the conscious effort of explaining what the heck is wrong or right about my life in a way that moves you, why bother being a storyteller? Status and recognition, [...]

Posted 20 February 2006 † Yuletide § Commentary ‡ Comments (0) °

Response… and Words

Thanks for your wonderful comments guys/girls. Before I take the time to really respond, I want to say one thing about my last sentence… I realized after how I left a piece of it out. “Writing to me is usually not about words, or letters, or periods or predicates. It’s about memories that fade, and [...]

Posted 20 February 2006 † Yuletide § Commentary ‡ Comments (0) °

Rays

ray noun rays of light beam, shaft, streak, stream.a ray of hope glimmer, flicker, spark, hint, suggestion, sign. (Oxford American Writers Thesaurus, 1st Ed.) This was shot between two of the movable bookshelves in the new library. I dunno why, but I found it very striking. I’d love to hear what people think… T-Max 400 [...]

Posted 18 February 2006 † Yuletide § Photography ‡ Comments (1) °

Blog Spam

To mix things up a bit here are a few interesting links on the current state of the blog spam universe. The State of Spam [Karma] This first link is a blog post by the developer of the Spam Karma anti-spam plugin. He talks about how until now, the programmers behind all the spam-post-bots (almost [...]

Posted 16 February 2006 † Yuletide § Blogging ‡ Comments (0) °

Letter To The Class

My earliest memory of writing is sharp–it floats to mind clearly. I see a much younger version of myself. It is Kindergarten, Ms. F’s class, journal writing time. We each has one, a big black book of pristine paper on which to make our mark. I remember a boy writing out a scrambled sentence of [...]

Posted 15 February 2006 † Yuletide § Writing ‡ Comments (1) °

10 Words

Diffuse Focus Flow Power Bliss Void Inertia Impulse Tension Comprehend Sense

Posted 15 February 2006 † Yuletide § Words ‡ Comments (1) °