Author Archives: Amber

Stuff to Check Out – March 5 2010

Kotaku – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy Nixed on Xbox 360 Live [Xbox 360]
March 5 2010
Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture – White Sorority Wins Major Step Competition: PostRacial or Just Wrong?
March 5 2010
Lifehacker – Suite Arrival Ships Toiletries Ahead to Your Destination [Travel]
March 5 2010
Kotaku – Red Dead Redemption Delayed To [...]

Insight

Now for the rebuilding. Everything in the building will be brand new, so this will be a good investment…At least we keep telling ourselves that.

Notice

Sometimes the worst feeling is realizing that it may have been cheaper to have just torn the building down and started over.

After

Unlike some of my much more focused and dedicated friends,  I did not finish a novel for NaNoWriMo.(Congrats Jon) It was not just because I was an idiot and decided to tack on NaBloPoMo and NoJoMo at the same time. I actually finished the latter and was very close to finishing NaBloPoMo, at least [...]

Right Brain v Left Brain Creativity Test

Left Brain Right Brain
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You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the [...]

Piles

I have been staring at a blank page for several days, disappointed that nothing interesting has come to me.  Almost halfway through the month and the things posted in this blog could just be relocated twitter posts. It shames me a bit to admit that I seem to be able to produce little more than [...]

Personality Profile

Aesthetic
You appreciate art, beauty, and design; you know that they are not superficial but absolutely crucial to living the good life. You have good taste, and you’re proud of it. Those with a high score on the “aesthetic” trait are often employed in literary or artistic professions, enjoy domestic activities — doing things around the [...]

Bloody Sunday

The floor is coming out quite nicely. Next week we are going to lower the ceiling.
Fun times.
The schedule has been a bit adventurous, but we are sticking pretty close to it.
So close yet still months of work ahead.

Indigestion

Bad science fiction movies are like mediocre restaurants. You still end up full, but most of the time it is just not tasty.
I think after all these years of nomming those things like they are overrunning the planet, even the best of them are making me nauseous.
This makes me sad.
Almost as bad as when my [...]

Fiesta?

Six days in nanowrimo, stuck.
May just have to hope I can get back into it by writing something else.
Will have a schedule up for the show soon.