Oh My Goddess: First End

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Oh My Goddess: First End is the first novel based on the Oh! My Goddess! Japanese manga creations of Kosuke Fujishima. The novel is written by Yumi Tohma, the actress who voices the character of Urd in the animated series and who has enjoyed an affinity with the characters ...

Exchanging free will for consciousness

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I have given up on free will. Okay, that is misleading, as I haven't given up on the concept of free will but instead the book Free Will that is a collection of essays edited by Gary Watson, and only temporarily. After having read Contemporary Political Philosophy by ...

Infoquake

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I finished reading Infoquake, the first novel by David Louis Edelman. It is a science fiction novel following the early career of a businessman in a world where bio-engineering nanomachines augment our own biological systems through software control. There are spoilers in the following text. I found the author's writing style ...

Weekend report

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I had quite a full weekend, with surprisingly little gaming. I socialised with family, as it was my niece's birthday, watched some MST3K, made Jambalaya, got some Sun on the appropriately rather hot Sunday, finished reading Feersum Endjinn, and poked my head in to a couple of games. It turns ...

Guitar exercise book

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Further to my recent thoughts about buying a new guitar, I went looking on-line for a new book to help me get back to practicing playing. As much as playing along to songs is fun and helps in its own way in picking up some skills it isn't the ...