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  • TIGER SCRATCHINGS

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    Over at Baldilocks, a blog I have long enjoyed, we find another blogger who has turned fiction writer. Her story is a bit different than mine, cause she's a gurl:At a southwestern university, a young man and a young woman do something that’s done every day: they fall in love. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:30pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WHERE THE BUMS EAT BETTER THAN THE SWELLS

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    "I can’t in good conscience throw away food."In New York City, trans fatty foods are banned. That was implemented not long ago, and restaurants technically are not supposed to serve any such food. Its unhealthy, and as we know from Demolition Man:"...anything not good for you is bad, hence, illegal."-Lenina [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:27pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • DISNEY'S PRINCES

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    Someday my prince will come!Over at Linkiest, there is a linky to a site called IMGUR in which they offer a graphic showing what Disney is teaching little girls and boys. What does it take to attract a princess? Here's what Disney says in their movies:Its a pretty consistent pattern. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:08pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, part the last

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    OK this is it for National Novel Writing Month 2009, the final day of writing. I've almost finished my novel but Thanksgiving and recovering from that took several productive days away so I won't have it done this month.I jumped ahead several chapters to near the end for the final [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:07pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The American people have an anger about the growth of the deficit because they're not getting anything for it..."-Nancy Pelosi, admitting the "stimulus" package was a failure' [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:06pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • SNOWBERRY'S VEIL RELEASE PARTY!

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    I am very proud to announce that I have managed to get a book written and published. The book Snowberry's Veil is now available at any major online bookseller such as Amazon.Com or Barnes & Noble. At the present it is only available online, and I'd like to extend a' [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:59pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • ENRON PRINTING

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    "We are the deciders"-David McCumberTwo stories recently came out in the news which are largely related.The first is a report on ad revenues. Online advertising was seen in the late 1990s as a big boon for business, it would be a cheap, easy way to reach billions of people and [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:35pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • GORE'S FALSE PROPHECIES

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    "We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."-Dr Steven SchneiderAl Gore, best known for winning awards and failing to steal [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:20pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WORD AROUND THE NET

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    "Pay cash to destroy valuable assets? Only the government would think this was a good idea."A weekly roundup of news and stories from around the internet for November 22-28, 2009.The big story of this week was the warmaquiddick scandal at Hadley Climate Research Unit in England. Leaked emails revealed deliberate [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:10am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end."-Jerry Seinfeld [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 20

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    One more part to go, tomorrow. I haven't decided yet, I might jump forward in the story a ways to a point most readers will recognize. Overall I've managed to publish about a third of the book here, hopefully enough to get some interest but not too much so that [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THANKSGIVING 2009

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    "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."-John Fitzgerald KennedyThanksgiving is uniquely American, although the Canadians have adopted the holiday in their own fashion. Most people know the story behind thanksgiving, so I won't go' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."-H.U. Westermayer [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:28am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 19

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    Its thanksgiving today, and I've got some cooking to do and a dinner to get to, but I wouldn't want to miss a day, so here's the next part of the ongoing story of Stoce and his Old Habits. So far Stoce hasn't been a very combattive fellow. When faced' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • A COLOR THING

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    "As long as he’s black I cover his back"There's an odd contrast in news right now. According to polling, blacks support President Obama by somewhere around 90% to 10% disapproval. At the same time, unemployment among blacks is over 30% according to the latest data.In other words, blacks in America [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:47am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Second Quote of the Day

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    “We need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn’t make and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven’t spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious.”-yet another Hadley CRU email [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:43am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

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    "Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise."Warmaquiddick is being largely ignored by the legacy media (several instead have run stories on how the warming is even worse than we suspected, and the danger is far greater!). However, CBS is defying [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • NEVER HAVING TO SAY SORRY

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    "But the most worrying possibility - that this is Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts - remains real."One bad thing about being a pundit is that it often leads you to be so arrogant or confident that you have a hard [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:45am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 18

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    Last year I wrote about introducing complications to a story. With Snowberry's Veil I used this device every time things were going too well for the main character Erkenbrand. It is an easy method of moving the story along because if things go to well any story just becomes either [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:37am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."-Pablo Picasso [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:35am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • LET ME SWEETEN THE DEAL

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    "We have already established what sort of woman you are, madam, we are merely negotiating the price."Briefly, I wanted to draw some attention to an article at the Hill which details something voters need to be aware of. There are a few ways you can get people to vote for [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:21pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WARMAQUIDDIC MARCHES ON

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    "Jones says that UK climate organisations are coordinating themselves to resist FoI"Some pundits are calling it "Climategate" which is a pretty pathetic name, and following previously established rules, I think Warmaquiddick is a far better name. By now anyone following the new media, at least the right side of things [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:49pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE TEST

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    "President Ronald Reagan believed, as a result, that someone who agreed with him 8 out of 10 times was his friend, not his opponent"The Republican Party, in an attempt to generate some interest and cohesion in a party rapidly being torn in two by wanna be democrats and conservatives, has [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:45am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    This calls for a pile of otter pups. [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:43am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 17

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    More fun with language. The serving girl is a bit wenchy and rough in her dialect, while the Captain of the Guard is more polished, and the Baron more polished yet - or at least that's my intent. Even if no one really picks that out while reading, it ought [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:28am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "If I call myself black I reject the mother who raised me."Tiger Woods [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:27am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WITCHES COLLECT BODIES

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    "To make soap, first we render fat. The salt balance has to be just right... so the best fat comes from humans."-Tyler DurdenThis is a story I simply could not pass up. "Witches" in Peru luring and killing people to render them for their fat. The story comes from News.Com [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:44pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:43pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE NEW CLASSICAL

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    "If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."-Gustav MahlerI like classical music. Little of it ends up in the Songs I Like series because not much classical has lyrics I really like, but the music its [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 1:06pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 16

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    You may have noticed that Stoce tends to store things all over the place. Although that is a major and useful plot device early on, it wasn't intended as a character flaw. I don't actually plan out that much ahead what I'm going to write, I have a very vague' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is another step forward towards the global management of our planet"-EU President Herman Van Rompuy [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:22pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE FADING BENEFITS

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    After all the revelations about the hockey stick graph, selective cherrypicking of data to make modern warming seem worse, and the latest flood of damning emails - which nobody, not one person at the CRU is claiming are fake - it seems that the very least we can say is [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:51pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE SLOPING PLATEAU

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    "I hardly know any colleagues who would deny that it hasn't gotten warmer in recent years."-Hamburg Max Planck Institute scientist Jochem MarotzkeAfter years of telling everyone that rising greenhouse gases cause a continuous rise in temperature which will eventually doom the world, scientists are struggling to deal with the recent' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:46pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • 2009 OVERPAID

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    "Get me Cruise! He made that movie about the thing that earned millions!"Forbes magazine has produced their most overpaid actors list again this year. Last year here's what the top five list looked like. For each dollar paid the actor:Nicole Kidman’s movies averaged $1 of gross incomeJennifer Garner’s movies averaged [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:21pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • PICTURE OF THE DAY

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    I think that's a different WWF [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:17pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • WORD AROUND THE NET

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    "The people who understand the problems with the cap and trade with offsets bill are not being heard"Here's the news from around the internet for this week (also known as "bits I bookmarked but never built a full post around"):Firstly and most important to all breakfasters everywhere, the Kellogg cereal [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:31am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 15

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    The plot thickens. What started as basically a caper story - break into the castle and steal the gems - has become something else, although at first our protagonist (I hesitate to say hero) is not interested in the else, for now.A Fish Out of Water is another story type, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:27am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."-Carl Sagan' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:25am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • SCIENTIFIC STIMULI

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    “Well, that’s under certainly the laws of the--protect the health, welfare of the country."The proper name of the "stimulus" package was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The theory presented for this legislation was that if the government injected enough money into the economy, then it would kick" [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:25pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • AUDIOPHILES

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    "Dude, I miss 8 track"When CDs first came out, the debate started: which sounded better and more real, analog or digital? For me the choice was clear and impossible to question: digital was far more clear, clean, and rich a sound. For others, digital could not be beat. After growing [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:40am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:36am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 14

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    Most books have some kind of romance in them. As I said last year, I don't think romance by its self is enough for a proper novel, there's not enough story there to tell. A romance should be a natural part of the main story if it is present, not' [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:28am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."-Chinese Proverb [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:27am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Picture of the Day

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:20pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • GREEN MILES

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    "A zebra does not change its spots."-Al GoreThe Netherlands has a brilliant new way to raise money. Oh sure, they're calling it a way to reduce pollution and traffic, but it is simply about the cash it will result pouring into government hands. Like the Cap and Trade bill that' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:48am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • THE LONGING FOR LIBERTY

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    Freedoms I wish I had:“I am forbidden to talk about them.”Anyone who has watched a beauty pageant or read a few online profiles from women looking for love will notice patterns develop. It seems most women dislike men who are smelly, have poor hygiene, and who ignore them, oddly enough. [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:29am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Old Habits, pt 13

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    And now the main plot starts. I know 12 parts is a long introduction (I have it worked out to around 3 chapters) but that serves two purposes. The first is to give the reader a good feel for the character and his world which description or narrative would not [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:15am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • Quote of the Day

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    "The only real training for leadership is leadership."-Anthony Jay [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:12am EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • PICTURE OF THE DAY

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    The cast of Star Wars, after the first movie. From left to right, that's a very young Harrison Ford, David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher, Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hammill before his car accident. Missing is Anthony Daniels, the guy who voices C3P0, and wore the [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:52pm EST
    by Christopher Taylor

  • GROWING HUNGER

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    "It's frankly just deeply upsetting"-James D. Weill, president of Food and Action Center.Are you hungry? I am right now, I haven't made anything for breakfast and the cat is pestering me even though its not time to feed her yet. I bet a lot of you are a little hungry' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:39am EST
    by Christopher Taylor
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