http://www.longklaw.com My Life Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:24:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I did something that I used to think I would never do. I bought an iPod. I’ve changed my mind on it at least 3 times in the past couple of days, but I finally placed the order today. I’ve gotten the idea of getting an mp3 player in ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/09/ipod A couple of weeks ago I got an email welcoming me to OnStar and congratulating me on the purchase of a new vehicle. Since then I’ve gotten more emails from them like diagnostic reports, order confirmations, etc. The weird thing is that I’m not an OnStar customer and ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/09/im-not-an-onstar-customer I recently made my way through Headcrash by Bruce Bethke. It was hard with the Olympics and dog stuff and whatever distractions I could come up with. Headcrash is a cyberpunk novel. The author is the person who came up with the term cyberpunk. The VR elements of ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/09/headcrash A week ago today I adopted a puppy that I found through Petfinder.com from the animal shelter in Aberdeen. He's a mini-dachshund/feist mix. He's gonna be inside so I didn't want a huge dog. I was having a lot of trouble coming up with a name, so I ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/reese For the first week and a half or so of the Olympics I was really into it. Now I’m getting tired of it. I still leave it on in the background, but I’m usually not paying attention to it. Congratulations to all the winners, but I'm ready for you to ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/goodbye-olympics Playing for Keeps: A Superhero Novel was first released in podcast and pdf form on playingforkeepsnovel.com. My first exposure to it was the podcast version, which is read by the author, Mur Lafferty. The paper version was recently released. PfK is about group of people that are part of ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/playing-for-keeps-a-superhero-novel So The Wheel of Time is finally being made into movies. This isn't as exciting to me as it would have been 5 or 6 years ago, but I'm still glad. I think The Eye of the World and the next 1 or 2 should get their own ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/wheel-of-time-movies I finally got around to finishing Night Watch a few days ago. I had been interested in it since I saw the movie when it came out on video. I vaguely remembered parts of the movie as I read the book, but I think I'm gonna have to ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/the-night-watch I got an email about that postal employee who stole one or more of my Gamefly and/or Netflix rentals. She plead guilty to 1 count of Delaying or destruction of mail or newspapers and 3 counts of Theft of mail matter by officer or employee. She'll be sentenced ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/crime-still-doesnt-pay It's been a while since I updated. Things have been very busy lately. I moved out of my apartment. Everybody else was leaving and I didn't want to stay either. Management became bunch of bitches after the cool lady had a baby a left. They ... http://www.longklaw.com/2008/08/busy-and-tired