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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Consider Phlebas

I've had a number of recommendations for Iain M. Banks' Culture Series. The gist I got was that it was a 201 level course to the 101 course of Star Trek's Federation. 

There are books better positioned to be the first read for the series, but I chose the first book written, Consider Phlebas. It lived up to expectations. Spoiler Warning.

Monday, October 08, 2012

It's the Magic: Vanishing Act

Today's blog is on the other blog. I started looking at Return to Ravnica last night and...wow, I don't even know where to begin with it.

In a bad way.

It's not that it's bad, it's that I don't have any money to buy it and when I look at the list of cards online, the whole thing seems pretty schizophrenic with a few repetitive themes (Unleash, Detain, Overload, Populate, Scavenge). I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that it's making a bad impression from up here in the nosebleeds.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Derp

Sorry guys. Been busy with school and this one kind of got away from me. Believe it or not, I'm working on a respectable queue so this doesn't happen again.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Question and Rant: Here and Back Again

I sound smart when I speak to people, a skill I honed in lieu of any other skills. I did this primarily because I like the sound of my own voice, which is a pity because I'll never have an audience inside of my own head to appreciate the light, yet solid qualities my skull lends it. Despite sounding a bit like a stereotypical mentally challenged person, my sounding-smart skills encourage people who barely know me to ask me about my thoughts on current events. People who really know me skip this in favor of letting me daydream about Magic, comic books, or emo guys, mostly because they know I'll be thinking about those things anyway and don't want to put me to the trouble of pretending that I'm listening to them.

Now because I've had the money to stay away from strangers for the past few years, this hasn't really been something that's happened much. However, if I did still have to meet new people and interact with them, I'm sure these are the questions I'd imagine them asking me while they said boring things.

What do you think about this secret service prostitute thing?
Secret service agents fucking prostitutes in South America is no more connected to Obama than Abu Ghraib is to Rumsfeld.