January 2003
Monthly Archive
A New Toy
Posted by Star on 09 Jan 2003 | Tagged as: Graphics, Technology
Also, I got a copy of PSP (version 7, I think) a while back, and last night I had all kinds of fun learning how to use it. Turns out some of those fancy sig graphics are easier than I’d realized. I’ve already got my next sig for the forums ready to go, but I’m going to wait until at least February to change it, since I only just got the one I’m wearing now. Maybe I’ll change it on my birthday–that would be a good turning point.
The Professor!
Posted by Star on 03 Jan 2003 | Tagged as: News, Reading
I’m most of an hour late in actually posting this, but I did do the real-life toast on time.
Today would have been the 111th birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien, had he still been alive. Today, he would have been eleventy-one. The Tolkien Society is, coincidentally, turning 33 on this day as well. The Society has requested that Tolkien fans everywhere drink a toast to “The Professor!” at 9pm local time. I suppose it’s a little late for me to be posting that, but hey, there’s still several time zones in America for whom it is not yet 9pm…
To J.R.R. Tolkien. To the Professor.
Reading List
Posted by Star on 03 Jan 2003 | Tagged as: Reading
Well, I just took the Chicago Tribune’s LotR quiz. It’s actually based on the books rather than the movies–go Trib! Rather disappointed in myself, though, as I only got 75% right. (Realized I was a geek when I started arguing with one or two answers.) Have decided I must read the trilogy again.
Upon said decision, my brain started to implode as a result of trying to figure out how to read all the books I want to read right now at the same time. The list:
-Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
-The Odyssey (Homer; trans. Fagles)
-a book of HP Lovecraft stories Dad lent me
-Exile’s Honor (Mercedes Lackey; reading this will inevitably lead to reading the rest of the series too)
-The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan; already well into book 4)
-a book-in-progress I’m critiqing for a friend (though have gotten through most of this one already)
That’s just what I want to read right-now-this-second. The list of stuff I’m going to get around to is much, much longer.
So many books. So little time. As usual.
