The Selfless Solipsist

I just finished my first book on my new Kindle.

Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines was my first book chosen -- it popped up on a list of books that were recommended to me by Amazon itself, and looked interesting, and was only $2.99 for the Kindle version, so I downloaded the sample chapters and checked it out. I bought the book before I actually finished the sample chapters. It was definitely worth the low price.

Finished it tonight, and it was good. I hadn't seen anything quite like it before. It's a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies -- called ex-humans, or just exes -- and superheroes. Yes, superheroes and zombies. The author pulls it off pretty well. It all takes place out in Los Angeles, and the author clearly has a good amount of knowledge of the movie business and studios out there.

Anyway, it was a fun read and enjoyable. If you're a romance or relationship reader, well, it likely won't be your cup of tea, but if you like superheroes and zombies then you'll probably dig it. I bought the sequel already.

Geez, if only Brandon hadn't over-dressed for his solo today.

Okay, I finally figured it out.

Jeanine has reminded me of someone the entire time this show has been going on, and I've finally figured out who it is: Gina Carano.

Mmmm. Gina Carano...

(Also: I'm excited for Lil' C's crazy talk tonight. For some reason, I always enjoy him.)

Dr. Scientist's sixteen-year-old niece is visiting us tonight. This is the first time I've met her -- she wasn't able to come to the wedding back in April. She saw my over-stuffed bookshelf and we got to talking about books and stuff, ends up she reads some fantasy...

Actually, wait. The first thing I must mention is that she looks almost exactly like my wife. Same height, same build, same hair, same face. Little less chin, fewer freckles, and more of a tan, but that's really the only differences. Well, other than age, obviously. Anyway.

So she immediately asks if I've read Twilight.

Oh, no.

I try to be nice and polite about how, no, I have not read Twilight but I'm not really interested in giving it a try. She's Team Jacob, not Team Edward, so at least there's that. Makes me happy.

But then I noticed that I still have my Emergency Backup Copy of Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files. (I have this copy because, two or three years ago, I tried to convince Dr. Scientist to read the series. It failed. She kept the book for a long time, and eventually I wanted to re-read it. So I bought another copy. Naturally.)

So I lent The Niece my more beat-up copy of Storm Front. Hopefully, she'll get hooked and I'll have converted a new follower.

And that, dear readers, was my good deed of the day.

Part One of a running series...

If you need to hit someone with a shovel, there is really not any reason to stop with just one hit. Keep hitting until your arms are tired or the person goes completely limp, whichever comes first. Pausing to admire your shovel strike merely lets the person you hit recover, and it's a safe assumption they will not be happy you struck them with a shovel. Furthermore, it's likely that the person you struck is larger and/or stronger than you, which is why the shovel was necessary to begin with, and a fair fight is not to your advantage.

It's a special Street episode, if I remember this judge correctly from last season...

I don't actually know who this is...

Your results:
You are Will Riker

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At times you are self-centered but you have many friends. You love many women, but the right woman could get you to settle down.

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I'm on both Dreamwidth and LJ. I have a lot of friends who are on both, as well. I read from both.

So how do I know which to reply to?

Here's my answer: I just reply on whichever I read it on first, unless the journal specifies. (Some of my peepz do.)

What about you?

My DVR is falling apart. What it likes to do now is to get a recording of something and then freak-out part-way through it so that you can't watch part of the recording. Drives me insane.

It's done that with Dollhouse now. Dr Scientist is working her voodoo magic to get us near the point that it's freaked, but still... Very annoying.

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