In true cross-blogging fashion, K and I are hosting rabbit and rouftop of La Luna de Miel… literally. They’re sleeping on our fold-out couch after their long trip up and down the Left Coast, or as they put it, the Dairy Tour of the West. (which I always read as a “Diary Tour”.) We’re happy to have them, even if it does mean that Ben won’t have a spot for his trains for a few days. ;)
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NaNoWriMo blog team go!
K and I are going to give National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) a try this year. It goes something like this: starting on November 1st, each of us has to write a 50,000-word (175-page) novel by midnight on November 30th. It’s not as crazy as it sounds; hordes of people finish every year, mostly by lowering their expectations from ‘bestseller’ to ‘will not make someone vomit’ (in the words of one of the organizers).
You can follow our progress along the way by visiting our NaNoWriMo pages; a handy pair of links is included in the sidebar here. I’m not sure exactly what they’ll contain, but at the very least it’ll include up-to-date word counts. If you decide (due to some mad urge) to join us and write a novel of your own, let me know your author URL and I’ll add it to the links.
speaking of geekery…
If you’re looking for something to get for the Radcliffs this holiday, feel free to pitch in and get these lovely Klingon bloodwine cups, on auction at Christie’s as part of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek. As the site states: “reputed to have been originally used in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments.” Indeed.
Thanks, Patrick!
avast, ye scurvy dogs
Patrick says:
arggh, matey! you best be talking like the foul-mouthed pirate ye claim to be!!!
…and he’s absolutely right. Arrrr, I mean, he harrrs th’ right ideer.
BSG webisode factorial
So, you may or may not know that SciFi.com is hosting a set of ten Battlestar Galactica “webisodes” to lead up to the Season 3 premiere. They’re being released every Tuesday and Thursday, and at 3-4 minutes apiece they’ll add up to (approximately) a full episode worth by the time they’re all released. From the quality of the first one, I can guess that they’ll be just as compelling to watch as any episode might be.
So here’s the thing. I just had a thought about how to watch them in true rabid-fan form: watch all of the released webisodes each time one is released. That would mean watching the first two tonight, then the first three next Tuesday, and the first four on Thursday… and then watching the whole shebang on Thursday night before the premiere. Is that insane?
I’ve already thought about re-watching the last few four or five episodes of Season 2 again, and that’s a lot longer than all of those webisodes put together. Actually, with the factorial counted in, it’s about the same length. Still, though… what do you think?