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Feb. 19th, 2006 09:55 pmSomehow I managed to get many things done this weekend, and yet nothing at all.
I finally signed up for the public library, but without my driving license I could only get an introductory membership, which lets me take out 2 books rather than 12. That was good, though; I found a copy of the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, which I'm going to take to work on Monday and raid for one of my documentation templates.
The rest of the weekend has been laundry, reading Livejournal and watching various housemates play Metal Gear Solid 3. Actually, we've had various flavours of Metal Gear Solid this week, so I've now seen the endings of MGS1 and MGS2 (while not having played past the hangar in MGS1) and somehow started fangirling Revolver Ocelot. That's somewhat worrying. He is utterly ridiculous in MGS3, though his gunslinging is sort of cool. We also discovered that killing him in the first battle gets you a GAME OVER - TIME PARADOX. ^_^
I've been trying to read more of the many novels I have - an entire three-shelf bookcase, mostly unread - during my lunch breaks. It didn't help that I also borrowed some books from my parents, but I've now read through all of them - ten of Dorothy L. Sayer's Peter Wimsey novels. Many thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge and ajhalluk, whose journals I read occasionally, for having recommended them.
I'm now reading The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. I very much like the setting - it's apparently the novel that defined steampunk, and I'm happy that it does alternate history so well - but the novel's moved away from the technology and into politics, which interests me far less. Once I've finished it, I might move onto Old Man's War by John Scalzi - his blog is interesting, and the pages I flipped through look to be good.
I should also donate Heresy by Anselm Audely to a charity shop at some point; on the other hand, I could keep it around as a reminder of how not to write a fantasy novel about religion. The world is made of six elements, and the god of fire is supposed to be the One True God; and yet the hero, who seems to be at least moderately intelligent, hasn't ever thought about whether people worship gods of the other five elements until his mother spells it out for him in words of one syllable.
I could try reading it to the end, of course, since I skipped to the part at the end to find more ridiculousness; however, life's probably too short for me to read bad books written by new writers. Bad books written intentionally badly by experts, however, I love. Atlanta Nights is a classic.
Apart from books, my main achievement for this week will hopefully be pasting three magazine scans together to create one double-page spread, then scanlating it. That is, if I force myself to sit down with Photoshop rather than disappearing to eat cake with my housemates...
...which I think I'll go and do now. ^_^
I finally signed up for the public library, but without my driving license I could only get an introductory membership, which lets me take out 2 books rather than 12. That was good, though; I found a copy of the Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, which I'm going to take to work on Monday and raid for one of my documentation templates.
The rest of the weekend has been laundry, reading Livejournal and watching various housemates play Metal Gear Solid 3. Actually, we've had various flavours of Metal Gear Solid this week, so I've now seen the endings of MGS1 and MGS2 (while not having played past the hangar in MGS1) and somehow started fangirling Revolver Ocelot. That's somewhat worrying. He is utterly ridiculous in MGS3, though his gunslinging is sort of cool. We also discovered that killing him in the first battle gets you a GAME OVER - TIME PARADOX. ^_^
I've been trying to read more of the many novels I have - an entire three-shelf bookcase, mostly unread - during my lunch breaks. It didn't help that I also borrowed some books from my parents, but I've now read through all of them - ten of Dorothy L. Sayer's Peter Wimsey novels. Many thanks to
copperbadge and ajhalluk, whose journals I read occasionally, for having recommended them. I'm now reading The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. I very much like the setting - it's apparently the novel that defined steampunk, and I'm happy that it does alternate history so well - but the novel's moved away from the technology and into politics, which interests me far less. Once I've finished it, I might move onto Old Man's War by John Scalzi - his blog is interesting, and the pages I flipped through look to be good.
I should also donate Heresy by Anselm Audely to a charity shop at some point; on the other hand, I could keep it around as a reminder of how not to write a fantasy novel about religion. The world is made of six elements, and the god of fire is supposed to be the One True God; and yet the hero, who seems to be at least moderately intelligent, hasn't ever thought about whether people worship gods of the other five elements until his mother spells it out for him in words of one syllable.
I could try reading it to the end, of course, since I skipped to the part at the end to find more ridiculousness; however, life's probably too short for me to read bad books written by new writers. Bad books written intentionally badly by experts, however, I love. Atlanta Nights is a classic.
Apart from books, my main achievement for this week will hopefully be pasting three magazine scans together to create one double-page spread, then scanlating it. That is, if I force myself to sit down with Photoshop rather than disappearing to eat cake with my housemates...
...which I think I'll go and do now. ^_^
