Feeling: blank  Listening to: Metallica – Master of PuppetsRead a trippy short story recently – Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store. It is a short science fiction-fantasy about, hmm, Books
The story is written in a nice easy style at a good pace. It features takes on the recession, layoffs, google and other topics with a hint of geek [...]

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During the Great Depression, many authors wrote stories at a penny a word to make ends meet. Some of these authors wrote up to a million words a year, usually in the form of detective stories, mysteries and thrillers. A lot of these stories, featuring smart, cynical but brave detectives, were first printed in the [...]

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AJ on February 20th, 2008

  Crescent Garden is written by Christopher Love and is the first book published by Evermore Books. As the tag line says, “A novel of New Orleans, the book is set entirely in New Orleans. Love creates a very tightly written book with the story taking place over 3 days just before Mardi Gras in New [...]

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AJ on January 22nd, 2008

  Feeling: amused  Listening to: Nirvana – StainWell the MacBook Air has been released by Apple. I think it is a beautiful machine but the specifications of the system sucks. And it’s freaking expensive. I know I wont be getting it anytime
However, I came across an awesome pic which does a feature comparison of the MacBook Air to [...]

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