No bones about it, I’m a fan of strip clubs. The good ones, mind you. Yeah they’re more expensive, but if you go to the “discount” strip clubs gentlemens’ clubs (is that a plural or a singular possessive when employed in common usage? i’ve honestly never noticed…) you never know what you’re gonna get. And I’m not talking particularly in the “hangers on in the groinal region” sense, but rather in the “ummmmm” sense. I once went to a strip club where the dancer not-so-subtly hinted that I should give her some money, but neglected to, y’know, put on a show. I’m not really sure if she realized that one can walk down the street and see strange women fully-clothed for the price of a good pair of sneakers. It’s performance art, my dear lady, and I while I might pay Iron Maiden’s ticket prices beforehand, I also get 2 hours of entertainment (at least) for half the price of three songs at this fine establishment.
Okay, so maybe I like strip clubs when I’m not thinking about them very hard.
I do, however, tend to give them actual, valid currency as opposed to the guy referenced by the StickGuys today. If ya can’t afford the strip club, just stick with the Internet, dude. It’s like a small room with all the strippers you could possibly ever need, and you don’t end up smelling like you spent Monday Night Football at Baby Herman’s place.
So incredibly tired today, not sure why. Tired eyes, stupidly, led me to experiment with fonts in NZ before I concluded that the current font is perfectly fine. Someday I’ve gotta get one made out of my own handwriting.
See you Friday!
As you may have noted on your favorite tech sites, Barnes and Noble now has its own e-reader with downloads, e-ink screen, all that jazz. It’s generated quite a debate on /., since B&N was in this biz once before, and left their users high-and-dry when they stopped (with a buncha useless ebooks and readers due to the DRM). Of course, these days the whole portable computing application device market is totally different, and everyone’s got some sort of real-life “tricorder” of one sort or another. Nearly ubiquitous Wi-Fi and cellular network coverage make getting books trivial.
Someone mentioned that they thought the iPhone was a perfectly good platform for reading e-books, and that it made the Kindle and the “Nook” (Nook e-book reader… Nooke-Book reader…. Nookie Book Reader… and you thought the stick guys were just being random pervs today…) irrelevant. I assure you, this is not the case. The iPhone does many things well, but it is a horrible device for reading long works. The screen is too small, the form-factor doesn’t really fit into your hand in any way that resembles long-period ergonomics, and the glossy screen makes reading anywhere but a dim-to-dark room very difficult. No thanks.
Hopefully, this will result in some competition in the e-reader market and lower prices for everyone. Of course, for my part, I’m still waiting for manga to show up on the e-readers. That’s my killer app. I don’t think it’ll happen though (even though the e-ink has a high enough DPI to make it worthwhile).
Outtie.
Alas, my week long vacation is over 
Ah well. Only a couple weeks until Thanksgiving comes around, y’know?
There was some ironic violence going on in Iran last weekend, with some Revolutionary Guard commanders getting blow up by a suicide bomber. But my main concern is whether or not you’ve noticed how hot Persian women are. The bettas certain seem to know, anyway.
In other news, the release schedule for this site (including the story sub-sites with the short stories and TGD) will be one publication per week. There will be posts announcing them with links to those new published works, so make sure to subscribe to the RSS feed or email notifications for stevenmwalsh.com so that you don’t miss anything.
And here it is, the first installment of The Geeks’ Domain. Head on over and take a look, and let me know what you think!
Sonorous Events
Babylon 5 OST 2: Messages From Earth – “Main Title, Second Season”
NZ’s strip today concerns the plague of “cognitive dissonance“, as presented by my friends, the political betta fish. Beware!
I’m on vacation at the moment, a condition which some have decried, causing them to utter epithets my way. It’s caused me to actually get a lot done. However, yesterday I spent all day playing “Aion“, which I obtained for $5 via a prodigiously combined assembly of Best Buy discount coupons and gift certificates. And God Help Me, I like it. I haven’t gotten very far in it yet, but Gabe of Penny-Arcade fame is, at least, correct that the character designs are very pretty.
The outline for the initial chapter, and almost two, of my first serial novel, The Geeks’ Domain, is done. Writing will begin this week. If all goes well, I’ll be able to start posting parts next week.
Music That WAfted Through My Room During This Post
Just that there Aion BGM (which is also quite good)
Today’s Negative Zen strip is up and ready for your review. Hopefully it meets with the ISO requirements for “funny”
Yesterday, I went out for a matinee showing of “Surrogates“. I’d been intrigued by the trailers for it, seeing as there seemed to be some extensive cyberpunk themes going on there. I came away disappointed. Not that those themes were not there, but rather the themes were presented in the same way that a child might present the Last Supper in finger paints.
I probably had too high of hopes for the intellectual content of the movie, it stars Bruce Willis after all, but I’m a sucker for cyberpunk movies.
Things I am also a sucker for: Interesting sounding cheeses, movies where geeks and their tools are portrayed accurately, projects that involve Alyson Hannigan, and DVDs featuring Kevin Smith entertaining an audience.
Please note that those last two are on the list for entirely different reasons.
Music That Happened to Play During This Post
Gorillaz – “Feel Good, Inc”
Manchester Orchestra – “Shake It Out”
Fake German, gotta love it.
Well, here’s the online page. I gotta work on getting TGD outlined so I can post up some parts to the site and get it going.
In the meanwhile, Negative Zen is back to 5 days a week. Today’s strip features the StickGuys, who back after a long hiatus in the StickCaymanIslands, which, the StickGuys inform me, are lovely all-year-round… so long as you are 2-d and resemble someone suffering from anorexia…
Music That Moved In And Out of My Ears During this Post
30 Seconds to Mars – “Kings and Queens”
Angels and Airwaves – “The Adventure”
Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
