Category: Nerdy Stuff

Kitti’s step-sister is due to have a baby sometime… in the future (in 2011 — that much I’m sure of). I made a sweater and hat for Kitti’s step-brother’s kid, and I think I set the bar a little too high. I’ve been fretting about what to make for not-exactly-niecephew #2, figuring this kid will [...]

This is my plan: 1. Write a short story. 2. Sell it. 3. Get my next tattoo with the money. That’s how I got my Kindle. I sold “The Pardoner’s Tale” and when I got my first royalty check I used the money to buy a Kindle. I know the tattoo thing is a weird [...]

Do yourself a favor. Use the Amazon mp3 cloud. Seriously, this is a thing of beauty. I can now sit here at work, buy mp3s, and instantly they are in my cloud, safe and happy, waiting to be listened to. I can listen to them immediately on my Droid (music streaming is not allowed on [...]

I own two violins. One’s slightly better than the other and is my official “take it to lessons” violin. The other is shiny and purple and has become the fiddle. It has stickers on it already marking the places where the fingers go (which is a common practice for students). Because of this, I’m getting [...]

So last night we were watching television and an ad for the new Kindle comes on. Kitti moves over like he’s about to cover my eyes. I glared at him. “I’ve seen it, you know.” I don’t need the current Kindle, anyhow. My First Gen is still working great, despite one scary moment on Sunday [...]

I watched the first episode of the US version of Being Human last night. I won’t be watching the rest of it. I can’t fault the writing. Well, I can in parts. Parts of it were fantastic, and it was the parts that were taken almost directly from the UK Pilot episode. The biggest problem [...]

1. Amazon finally made it possible to send Kindle books as gifts. Anyone with an email address can now receive a book and read it on their Kindle, computer, and most smartphones. 2. Amazon made it possible to share Kindle books. Again, anyone with an email address can receive a book and read it on [...]

The year I learned that Christmas did not, in fact, originate as a celebration of my amazing ability to temporarily transform into a “good” child for a few weeks was the year my grandparents took me to see their church’s nativity play.  My dad’s parents were heavily involved in their church and felt that, at [...]

If you are/were/would like to be following me on Twitter, I’ve changed my name to “the___ninth“. That’s three underscores, kids! If I’d known it would come down to that, I would’ve stuck with dataangel.