Reading books…

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Well I decided to find our how much actually read these days. Leslie racked up over 200 books last year with her academics, professional upgrading and penchant for YA. I won’t get anywhere near that total but here is what I’ve read since January.

You’ll not that I still haven’t managed to branch away from pulp. Every time I try I realize I have no patience for anything but making my brain stop thinking rather than the opposite… Well we all have our escapes. In additions have almost entirely converted to ebooks. With my new library on multiple devices and my old library still in boxes it is very suited to my lifestyle and once I got used to the physical experience it has very few drawbacks..

Anyway, without further ado…

Oath of Fealty — Elizabeth Moon 2010 ePub

Black on Black — K.D. Wentworth 1999 ePub

Cobra Gamble – Cobra Wars 3 — Timothy Zahn ARC 2012 ePub

A Desert Called Peace — Tom Kratman 2008 ePub

Spellwright — Blake Charlton 2010 ePub

Spellbound — Blake Charlton 2011 ePub

Kings of the North Elizabeth Moon 2011 ePub

Stars Over Stars K.D. Wentworth 2001 ePub

Pandora’s Legions Christopher Anvil 1972 ePub

There Will Be Dragons John Ringo 2003 ePub

Carnifex — Tom Kratman 2007 ePub

The Lotus Eaters — Tom Kratman 2010 ePub

Emerald Sea John Ringo 2003 ePub

East of the Sun and West of the Moon John Ringo 2006 ePub

Starfishers – 2 Glen Cook 1982 ePub

I Want my Hat Back Jon Klassen 2011 HC

Naamah’s Curse Jacqueline Carey 2010 Mass Market Paper

Echoes of Betrayal : Paladin’s Legacy Elizabeth Moon 2012 ePub

A Rising Thunder David Weber 2012 ePub

Eagle Against the Stars Steve White 2000 ePub

Wolf Among the Stars Steve White 2011 ePub

Naamah’s Blessing Jacqueline Carey 2011 ePub

Studio Night

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Jamie Durie by day and a Jonathon Christenson creation called Whisper by night.

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Jamie Durie at the Enjoy Centre

Tonight we are at the second last Studio Theatre show. It’s been a great season so far… I absolutely loved Yellow Moon. Hopefully this one will keep up the momentum.

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Well it was a visually spectacular show and a joy for everyone participating except the audience. The script left me flat. The acting, design, direction kept me in my seat.

There you go…

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An all time low

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Those of you who ever bother to listen to me know I like to rant about CBC.ca‘s comments but this one takes the cake. I mean I know generally when you read something this asinine its someone’s poor attempt at satire or sarcasm, but this… this takes the cake…

Even in these days of internet illiteracy… seriously… sigh…

This is uncalled for he is going into that uncharted, undesturbed and prestine landscape and killing all the animals that live there, he must be stopped because next thing you know he will have oil and polution down there when it does not belong and he should call the wild life protection agancy and arrest himself and put him in jail because the money it spent on going there we could of went to voyage a new planet for NASA and then the little pretty fishes at the bottom of the sea would thrive in the environment!

From a story about James Cameron’s descent to the bottom of the ocean.

Dance Night

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Another Brain Webb show at the Timms. Looks to be a quiet one…not a lot of people here in the lobby.

Sylvain Èmard Danse presents Fragments Volume. It’s got a fog machine!

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While I really appreciate modern dance, it is choreography like this that really makes me believe our society is on the bored side of decadent.

Condoms & QR Codes… who knew

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Far from its humble beginnings in the automotive industry, now these matrix barcodes, scannable if you use a QR-code reader, are now beginning to appear on condom wrappers in the United States. Why? To allow the users to post and record the location of their sexual activity online for the world to see.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/qr-code-condoms-tracking-teenage-trysts/15358

LOL, just LOL. I can only imagine what the more ingenious of the crowd are going to do with this…

Oh Dougie Boy

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Today Leslie dragged me to hear Douglas Gibson talk. He’s speaking about the people he has worked with and his book ‘Stories about Storytellers’

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A charming speaker with an interesting viewpoint and huge history in the publishing world. The more he speaks the more I am aware that the golden age of publishing is over. He paints a picture. Very reminiscent of the NHL I remember. A time of heroes and bigger than life personalities that has been replaced by big ticket stars and diminishing returns.