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After last week’s announcement that publisher HarperCollins is putting a cap on the number of times their e-books can be checked out from OverDrive, I’ve been even angrier than I usually am about the way publishers and distributors screw consumers and users of the rights they have with non-digital content. One of the main reasons [...]
Thanks to the meds I’m currently on to lower my cholesterol and triglycerides, I can’t drink alcohol. It’s not usually that big a deal, because I’ve kind of grown out of getting all liquored up, but I do miss having a tasty beer or glass of delicious wine when I want one. And although I [...]
At this morning’s weekly Web Content Team meeting, we were informed by our supervisor that IT has decided to buy us all new laptops to replace our desktop PCs. I was very excited about this and mentioned my last blog post. We then talked about shifting my cubicle workspace a bit so that I can [...]
As many people know, I’m pretty lazy. I’m a constant procrastinator and I frequently have to really push myself to get up off my tuchas and do something. I got to work this morning feeling really motivated to knock stuff off my to-do list and Get Things Done. But as soon as I was situated [...]
I’ve never really liked Valentine’s Day. I’ve never really done anything special for the day, whether I was in a relationship or not. I’m fairly romantic by nature, but a day centered around romance and couples just seems forced. And for people not in relationships, it just seems mean, as if your life is less [...]
I really think Community is one of the best shows on TV right now, for a variety of reasons. Last week’s episode, “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons,” was one of the best of the best. It was hilariously funny, but also very touching, and it was more accurate in the way it portrayed people playing Dungeons [...]
I had a long, elaborate dream last night. That’s not unusual for me, but this dream was impossible to sum up in 140 characters, unlike a lot of my other dreams. It’s stuck with this morning, so I thought I’d blog about it. In my dream, I was hanging out with an aging rock star, [...]
I read this post, “Batman: Plutocrat,” today, and it reminded me of one of the big reasons why I like Superman as a character more than I like Batman. Both Batman and Superman are born into aristocracy (Bruce Wayne, the son of a millionaire doctor; Kal-El, the son of his planet’s most prominent scientist). Both [...]
