The actual title of the book is Capre Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom. This is the reason that I checked this book out from the library. It sounded like a very funny book. The premise is that a hunter (imagine Buffy, the vampire hunter) had gotten to her 30′s and retired, married and [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2006’
Woodworking Show
I went to “The Woodworking Show” yesterday. The show tours all around and is just about to end it’s season. I thought I was going to have to go alone for the first time ever but my friend, Marshall who I usually go with, wound up being able to go with me after all. This [...]
New Favorite Blog
I have come across a blog that talks about something very important. I think that their point of view is right along with my own regarding copyright reform, IP reform, and the position that our elected officials seem to give corporations over the average individual. Take a look at Against Monopoly.
Net Neutrality
I know this is a complex issue as is noted in this post on how Net Neutrality has become a partisan issue. Ultimately, though this is about whether or not the companies that have control over the “pipes” that provide internet traffic to both suppliers of information (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Ebay…) and users of information [...]
MP3 Tool Updated
I haven’t touched my MP3 ID3 Tool in a while but when I went to use it for something today, I ran into something I needed it to do so I added some new features. Basically the issue turns into the way Windows Media Player rips music. It puts artist information in a tag called [...]
Miss USA came from Kentucky
I don’t really follow these kinds of things (pageants and award shows) but since I’m from Kentucky I couldn’t let this one go by. Here is a post about Miss Kentucky being crowned Miss USA. I guess they grow them good lookin’ in Kentucky!
Book Review – Touch of Evil by CT Adams & Cathy Clamp
This was an interesting book. My only real issue is that CT and Cathy had developed a wonderful and complex universe with shape changers in it (see other reviews Moon’s Web and Hunters Moon) but they didn’t really use the elements from it. Instead they created a very different set of shape changers to go [...]
President and Congress doing bad!
Nearly all the technology experts with any creditiblity are shouting that patent and copyright law need to be reformed along with the DCMA law being thrown out, our <sarcasm>wonderful</sarcasm> President and Congress are ignoring all that advise and instead going off and doing exactly what the big corporations want as represented through organizations like the [...]
Mitchell did it!
Wow, Mitchell is amazing! When he puts his mind to something he gets it done. A while back he decided that he wanted to ride his bike without training wheels and made me take them off. We tried it a bit with not much success. A few weeks went by and we tried again. He [...]
A day in the sun
First, noticed that I changed my desk picture in the sidebar. It’s me with my boys – aren’t they cute? Today was just a fabulous day. We had a few things to do inside but right after an early lunch we headed outside. The boys joined their friends Baird and Judson (our neighbors) playing in [...]
Book Review – Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
This was a very detailed and complex book. In fact, to me, the first third of the book was down right confusing. The premise of this book is that it’s a world much like ours but there lives magical and semi-magical creatures. In fact, some of them are already known to the world. The lesser [...]
Piano lessons
Xander completely fell apart today. We managed the whole late afternoon wrong and created a disaster. Usually, we make sure he’s in the house and near the piano a few minutes before his teacher shows up – maybe even practicing. Today though we had a friend over and she didn’t leave till after the lesson [...]
TV Show Review: Dead Like Me, from Showtime
OK, this isn’t exactly a movie review but in the same vein since I get movies via DVD then via Netflix mostly. I think in the past I’ve mentioned a show that was discontinued called Wonderfalls. It was an odd but funny show about a pissy 20 something woman who suddenly got messages from inanimate [...]
Mitchell’s latest skill
It was bound to happen. Every time I volunteered at Mitchell’s school, at least one of his friends would come up to me and show me this nifty thing they could do. Mitchell just couldn’t do it yet. All of this started at the beginning of the year. One of his good buddies even spent [...]
Book Review: Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Can you tell I’ve hit upon a bunch of were-creature books lately? Well, here is another one by another author. This book (part of a larger series, called the Dark-Hunter series) tries to put a little, though not too much, more pomp and such into the story. It gives a grand history about how were-creatures [...]