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I’m Now Testing the Space Aged Device Known as the Interwebz
51068 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
The whole purpose of this test is to check whether or not NR has successfully created a magical link between the NR site you all know and love and twitter.
As the faithful Normalinauts know twitter is to Gilgrim as cowbell is to Walkin and you don’t even have to be on twitter or have a twitter account to follow Gilgrims tweets…see the pink box over on the right?
But I figured, why not have an official style NR twitter so you can waste even more time seeing the NR posts on twitter. How awesome/lame/awesome again is that shit?
Anyway, follow NR on twitter, at http://twitter.com/NormalityRstord.
Do it! Do it now!
Keane — Love is the End
I Have “Free” Time…Weird
11069 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
So last Friday I was informed by my students that spring break was this week. And it’s a good thing to otherwise I would have shown up on campus Monday. The problem, though, is that since I didn’t realize I wouldn’t be teaching this week my bookmines schedule remains the same, and I have a bunch of free hours this morning.
I should be grading these papers sitting here in front of me, but I’m typing this, and then I’ll probably work on a short story, and then I’m going to a used book store to sell/trade in some books left over from the garage sale.
The Internetz Scarify Me Something Fierce
31077 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
So I’m wasting time on Fark this morning before work and the sidebar add, one by my bookmines employer, says “Bookmines get what you want” and shows two James P Blaylock novels.
I’m sure this has something to do with something related to my personal internetz usage, but it just freaked me the fuck out.
Seriously, it’s like the internetz knows me better than anyone else.
Did I possibly miss the launching of Skynet?
A Message From the Management
41125 days
Just a quick note from all of us here at NR to all of you out there, through the miracle of modern technology, we wish you a happy, safe, fulfilling and ultimately belated Holiday(s)!
Holdin’ Down, and doin’ it for the Homies in 2009!
–Dictated, not read
The Management of NormalityRestored.com
Oh Interwebz, I Thank You for This Bounty
21173 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
So remember when I put that post up about A Song of Ice and Fire being turned into an HBO program…OK, that they are shooting the pilot and it may get picked up?
Well, not too long afterward, the gods of the “collection of tubes” we lovingly call the interwebz did grace me with a most bountious bounty in the form of the script from said pilot. I won’t talk about specifics of what I’ve read, but I will say that even the added scenes, that is, the stuff in the script that was not in the books seems to be very sensible additions. It opens up the story so that it is not totally focused on Ned Stark (as is the case early in the the first book) and so gives a good sense of the larger scope of the whole work. The other thing I will say, is that whoever put it together chose and absolutely perfect spot to end the episode. I mean, talk about a mother f’ing cliffhanger! For those that aren’t familiar with the story and happen to see this first episode, I cannot but see how they would want to know what happens next.
Very well done gods of the interwebz, I praise you most heartily on this day!
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I’ve Just Had My Best Moment at This Job
41277 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
In the form of this video that my boss forwarded to me. Likely some of you have seen it before, but I think that you will all appreciate it nonetheless, especially Suavo…
Geek Related News
41277 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
Apologies for being absent some this week. What with the migraines and the vomiting and doctors visits, and serious attempts at studying for my MA exam I’ve been neglectful to you faithful readers.
So So Tor now have their very own corner of cyberspace, appropriately enough called Tor.com. It seems to me a very interesting idea. The community portion is, essentially, a hybrid of a standard message board where anyone can register and use it (I’ve already put in one comment, huzzah for me!), as well as a place for Tor authors to blog and post stories. It’s a very natural point of evolution for the sci-fi/fantasy community that has long had at its core an intimate relationship between writers and readers.