Christmas 2011

Well, how was it?

This week in fiction.

This week I chose Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare, the second book in the Infernal Devices and prequel to the Mortal Instruments series:

fans of steampunk and urban fantasy will love the newest tale by one of the best writers I've seen in a while.

Anyhow.

So, it turns out my two best friends, lets call them Smartie Pants and Parka Lady, didn't even know I had this. So, I'm posting to tell them to READ!

STOP CENSORSHIP!

I've censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet--a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit:


http://americancensorship.org/posts/13077/uncensor





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My Inheritence theories.

Keep in mind, I'm still waiting for the book to come out so these are some of my theories that I've
put together
Arya will be the green rider, or Elva
Arya and Eragon fall in love and she dies, thus the romance thing
Eragon will leave alagaesia forever to teach the rider school at vroengard.
Roran will be king of the Varden/Alagaesia
Nasuada will be overthrown
Saphira and thorn will fall in love.
The Rock of Kuthian is a ginormous Eldunari
The Vault of Souls is a place for spirits to live, and while there eragon visits/talks to brom.
Murtaugh kills Galby, sacrificing himself or thorn to do so, sort of like the Palpatine/ Vader  scene at the end of Return of the Jedi.
WARNING CONTAINS INHERITENCE SPOILERS
EDIT: Highlight below for spoilers
Yeah, its been like a month, but lets see.
I was right on the first one
1/2 Right on the second
Semi right on the third
Eeh, he rules carvahall now
Nope.
Nope.
Sorta Kinda right about the RoK (It's a vault of eggs/eldunari/)
Sadly, no.

This Week in Fiction: Darke By Angie Sage

This Week I am recommending Darke by Angie Sage, the penultimate book in the Septimus Heap series for its intriguing plot, interesting characters and general zanyness that is typical of this serie

Just Venting

Well, lets see I have to redo my english paper cause my computer decided not to save it, and my cat is using my bracelet as a chew toy, WHILE ITS STILL ATTACHED TO MY WRIST! My usb port on my computer has stopped working so now I have to choose between my laptop's fan or using a wierd mouse. The deadline for a certain school I want to attend, is two months sooner than I thought, and last but not least I seem to have misplaced my headphones. I know I should be trying to fix my day late english paper, or working on my very behind Alg 2 assignment, but I'm venting just to procastinate now.... Anyhow. Back to work. Also: I hope everyone likes the new layout.

This Week in Fiction, well actually this month.

Ok, since I haven't been on in forever I will be posting three books to the book of the week club.
The first three are part of series by Kevin Hearne called the Iron Druid Chronicles it is as a qoute from the amazon page. "Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer." This is probably the best adult urban fantasy series I've seen since the Dresden Files. The fourth book is due out in  early 2012

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Kelly McCullough

Kelly McCullough:
This is a new author and book series I found, It looks pretty good.
'via Blog this'

Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3) by Maggie Stiefvater | A Casual Reader

Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3) by Maggie Stiefvater | A Casual Reader: Ok, I promised an actual review of the book but because of school going on and such this will have to do.

'via Blog this'

Sorry.

Okay, No this week in fiction till Next saturday, then I'll do two books.

Twimore, Pottermore and me pissed more.

Okay, I understand that yes, Twimore is a complete intentional knockoff of the very inventive Pottermore, but come on Kaleb, is this really necessary? This is just another shot in the Harry Potters versus Edward Cullen War, and as such is retarded. I think you could make your monthly idiocy and randomness quota without this retarded, poorly done video and your horrendous british accent. Besides, everyone knows the Boy who lived is ten times better than sparkly stalker anyday.

And Dude, your banner? Creepy.

This Week in Fiction. 8-22-2011 to 8/29/2011

This is the first post in a new series where I will take a book, review it, and give it the score I think it deserves.

This week's book is Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, Book 1). Fans of series like True Blood, and Kelley Armstrong, and to a certain extent, the Mortal Instruments, will enjoy this series in which vampires and witches are "out of the closet" and are commonplace, and with vampires come vampire hunters. Cue Jane Yellowrock and Indian Skinwalker who has a panther living inside her. She is hired by a vampire in New Orleans to take out a rogue vampire who is targeting the city's resident bloodsuckers. Also involved in the story is an undercover police officer who serves as Jane's love interest, and her best friend, an earth witch trying to keep her kids under the government's witchy radar. The story has a ending that is completely unexpected.
I like how Faith Hunter. the author of the book, portrays Vampires and she is very descriptive, I've never been to the French Quarter, where the novel is written, but I could almost smell the boudin balls frying and here the people talking. She needs to work on her action scenes and I would like to read more about how her witch's magic system works. The Question is, would I reread it? Not likely.
I give this book 8.5 out of 10 stars for excellent descriptions, and well thought out characters.
Join me next week when I review the third Wolves of Mercy falls series.

A new way to do things.

Okay, as you can see I've changed the layout. I also am going to change how this blog runs, I have a couple of ideas for "Articles." and I am also going to change how I've been writing. I tried proper, and you know what? IT SUCKS! I realized something, this is my blog, not some bs buisiness blog or some other bull, so from now on I am going to speak my mind on whatever I damn well want. After isn't that what a blog is supposed to be? ;)

Thats it for now.

Happy Trails.

My fifteen minutes with scrivener.

I downloaded scrivener for PC and I used it, typed a paragraph or two and decided I hated it. It just doesn't fit my writing process.

What I've done today

I tore apart my house looking for stuff

A new way to Post

Well, as you know, I haven't been on here lately. This is going to change. See I got a new media device for my birthday. So from now on I'll be using that. I'll try to post once a week, starting friday.

Until then
Happy Trails

grr..

Why is it the more gruesome an event in history the more people want to honor it?

For example, in a city close to mine the local fire department is obtaining a 19 foot piece of the twin towers.

Yes, that’s right, the twin freaking towers, you know the whole big WTSHTF our country getting invaded and one of our biggest cities, not to mention the pentagon and the white house, almost.

Anyhow, a few of the city’s firemen is going before April to New York City and getting the piece.

They are going to create a memorial and this September, a decade exactly after the 9/11 attacks, dedicate it to the community.

To raise funds for this “momentous occasion” they are going to sell bricks for 150 bucks apiece.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR HEADS! To me September 11^th was a tragedy, not something that should be memorialized in some small insignificant hicktown like a circus sideshow.

This would be like me taking a piece of the USS Arizona off of the Pearl Harbor Memorial and taking it back to where I live.

Right now someone is probably saying.

“But they’re firefighters.”

I don’t care! For three generations my dad’s side of the family has been in the army, does that give me rights to take a piece of the Vietnam Memorial Wall? I am also American, does that mean I can have a piece of the Declaration of Independence or since I lived in Oklahoma a piece of the Federal building? I didn’t think so!

There is a fine line between remembering a tragedy and showboating.. I think they’ve crossed it. This, to me, is like taking a piece of a graveyard and hanging it up on a billboard. This is morbid, crass and hicktown idiocy at it’s finest.

Hi All.

This is your stupendously unpublished author of magnificence speaking. Well, I'm sick. Headache, Bad cough, you name it I've got it. So I've decided to type this from my sickbed to say until I get over this nasty little bug, I won't be posting.

Happy Trails.

Justin.

Hi.

Hi. I don't have anything really to say, I just wanted to post and say I'm up to like 65000 word on LW.

Brian Jacques died.

Hi, I just found out like 3 minutes my favorite author, Brian Jacques died Feburary 5th. He wrote the Redwall series of books. I'm shocked. He was an awesome writer and he will be remembered.

I am officially enrolled in Cisco Course.

Today was the first day of me being enrolled in a actual Cisco Course. Okay, I also started a SQL Programming course as well. I figure by the end of this I will have two certifications, be semi fluent in two languages beside the other two I know and maybe have enough experience for a decent job whilst I am in college, that is if my book doesn't take off and I become fabulously wealthy. In other news I finished the spriting for the main characters of the game and am working on a awesome menu courtesy of Law from RPG Revolution, face sets and did I mention I add a few new things to this blog?

Yup. I added a donate button, a couple of ad banners and a WIP Progress Bar.

Any How. Thats it.

Happy Trails

Justin.

Midterms. Continued.

Okay I squeaked by on the math and chemistry tests.

I'm safe. Now, I got a 69.9 on my midterm for my computer class, but since they round the grade up I got 70%, I passed by one point....

I figured that I didn't need to study because I took a practice test and got and 84% so yeah..

Midterms.

Okay, So I survived midterms. I'm still anxious about my chemistry and math grades but I think I did good.

Could Nintendo Soon market the DS as a shopping device.

Link

Link for PDF Version

Okay, I was browsing Google Patents when I saw the first link.

from the pictures it's shows the DS, not the DSi but the DSl hooked to a shopping cart, now this could be some kind of work in progress but It would be an interesting idea.

I Am going offline till the end of midterms

Okay, I killed my computer.

Okay I used this here program to make my desktop/os look like a mac.. I know, I'm awesome.

My New Years Resolutions.

Okay, it's two weeks late but I decided to post a list of resolutions that I want done by the End of the Year.

1. Finish Book (Three years old now, but I figured I may as well finish it.)

2. Finish Game

3. Lose Weight.

4.Post on here at least twice a week.

Anyhow how was your new years eve? Mine was okay, although i dont recommend drinking half a bottle of mtn dew voltage and a can of monster and then staying up all night :)