A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

Unless I am forgetting someone, nobody on my flist was nanowrimoing last year. This year, a lot of you are. I am proud of all of you and wish I could join you.

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We're at around $9,500 in seed-funding commitments, which is $500 less than halfway to the floor of our "we need this much investment by Dec. 1" range. (And $5,500 less than halfway to the ceiling.) The line is still warm; some people I've pitched to are still thinking or waiting for me to get back to them. I am both confident and very aware of the ticking clock.

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I have started to read I'm Just Here for the Food as my sleepy-time book. (Being an enormous hardcover volume it's not the best form factor for such activity, but whatever.) I like it so far even though it quickly becomes clear that its intended audience has more cooking experience than me. Frequently AB takes a "Allow me to go against everything you've learned" stance, to which I can only say "don't worry about it; please continue."

After a lengthy introduction that explains heat and the different ways to get heat to go from from $HOT_THING to $FOOD, the first chapter covers searing. And here also we get into the territory that misuba warned me about, with AB insisting I hit the kitchen and hardware stores and buy these thingies before attempting to sear anything or I will die. And of course my reaction is hooray for justifiable crazy shopping! I have not done this yet but it is inevitable.

Using a bug tracker with Volity for the first time. It's fun to knock bugs off of it, even if mostly they're ones you posted yourself.

Up until 1:30 coding because it's a feel-good way to procrastinate business stuff! Doh.

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It's IF Comp weekend once again. The games are not yet available as I type this, but they may be by the time you read this. Looks to be around the same number of entrants as last year, maybe a handful more. And about the same number of joke/crazy-person entries, judging by the titles (and authors).

Marked the ocassion with a rare login to ifMUD. Idled for a while and logged out again. Ah, MUDs.

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Almost not worth the effort, but one last Meh for Fever Pitch: Single people are either creepy freaks or closeted homosexuals. Probably another "harmless" romantic-comedy-o-verse assumption. It still ticks me off. Do typical people really think this is true, though?

I should just avoid all romantic comedies, no matter how much Roger Ebert might like them. Clearly the whole genre just gives me the grrr.

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Now you all know what I was talking about with Serenity after I saw its preview draft last May. The movie shook me up as badly as any movie ever has, and I hadn't ever seen the show before.

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I easily spend around $20, and often much more, every day on food (and coffee and snacks and so on). This has got to stop now. Letting go of my salary gives me a great big obvious reason to get back into cooking again. There are a lot of equally excellent other reasons, but they're not enough to drive me into it, apparently.

Of course I've been telling myself this for a week or more and I still haven't made the crucial step of going grocery shopping even once yet. Only a matter of time.