clock — watching time, the only true currency

Since starting clock, I’ve noted the books I read. What is rare, for me, is starting but not finishing a book. Once I take the plunge, I will soldier on even through the worst writing and plot. Always. Well, almost.
Many, many years ago, on spring break in Floria, I started Gray Lady Down, by David [...]

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Leading into the holidays, Mark Hurst releases another free Uncle Mark’s Guide, for 2006. Get the free PDF. Agree or disagree, Hurt tries to free you from the tyranny of choice. Trust him or not… I do, although the NYC-specific suggestion aren’t particularly helpful, personally.

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Hellboy filled a quiet Saturday night. I think I need to stop the comic-book movie streak. This film wasn’t terrible. Still, I’ve never read the comic, so I hadn’t bought into the backstory or the characters beforehand. With other movies where I have read the comic, the background brings me into the film, and then [...]

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Skipped Parts, by Tim Sandlin, goes in a different direction than many of the books I read. I asked Vin to share some light fiction. This novel wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. It’s sarcastic-funny, and a quick read. But when the protagonist is a thirteen year old boy, living with his twenty-eight-year old [...]

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No response from Verio, but e-mail is back up now. It doesn’t appear that everything got through from yesterday, though, so re-send if you don’t get a response.

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Not sure what’s wrong with Verio right now, but my pencoyd.com e-mail is down for the count right now. Can’t send or receive. Filed support notes via two different methods, but the toll-free numbers just warns that only limited support is available due to Hurricane Wilma, especially if your servers are hosted in Boca Raton. [...]

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After three months on the shelf, making money for Netflix, The Iron Giant DVD finally made it to the player on Saturday night. The final selling point on taking the film of the shelf was its length: the movie is less than 90 minutes. Perfect for this tired parent.
What I knew before watching: animated; good [...]

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Three items which made it through my scan, click, read, close routine in the last 24 hours:

Media: Mark Glaser probes media companies’ deep ambivalence about Yahoo. Make sure you read the first comment, where Glaser adds an after-deadline quote from Charlie Tillinghast of MSNBC.com. Tillinghast is the only one who comes right out and says, [...]

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“Hey, today I turned five.” That’s the soundtrack from the boy to his sister this morning, even when they are still “sleeping.” You can’t beat the anticipation and excitement of a birthday at this age.

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I appreciated reading the hardcover copy of The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revoluionary, even as I recognized some of the ironies of the act.
First, the hardcover book, published in 1999, is out of print. Second, Eric Raymond published every essay in the book for free online [...]

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