Author: cenobyte

  • Two things

    1) IM chatting with your kid is weird. I mean, not *your* kid, but ‘one’s own kid’. Discovering that the kid has a wicked sense of humour in print is pretty awesome, but realising that the chat conversation you’re having with an eleven year old is pretty much exactly the same as the chat conversation…

  • Hurgs

    Yours Truly is really embracing this whole “quantity, not quality” recommendation from National Novel Writing Month.  I am forcing myself not to self-edit, which is probably going to end in some Very Strange, incongruous, and nonsensical stuff. Then again, some of the greatest novels of the 20th century include Very Strange, incongruous, and nonsensical stuff.…

  • Dear Guvviment

    I’d just like you to know that there will be a test on this material at the end of your term. Please review carefully and make sure that you understand the questions before you begin to answer. Partial answers will not be graded. Incorrect answers will be subtracted from your score, so please do try…

  • As if insane weren’t enough

    Yours Truly has decided to throw her hat in the ring for National Novel Writing Month (known, somewhat annoyingly, as ‘NaNoWriMo’). So that means that Yours Truly might not be around online as much as she usually is (read: very nearly constantly). Or, it might mean she’s online more than she usually is (totally constantly).…

  • Compare and Contrast

    We’re heading in to a Very Exciting Year, you and I. There will be both a Federal and a Provincial hellection in 2011. I know, I know, you say you don’t care much about politics, and that’s fine, I understand. I used to say the same thing. I really thought for the longest time that…

  • This is definitely different

    So it’s been storming lately, which has been, to be honest, kind of awesome. Because Yours Truly has decided not to chance driving on the highways. If it’s going to be winter, it should bloody well *be* winter, is my opinion on the matter. None of this dicking around with a long, cold, dirty November.…