September 2008
6 posts
New Blog
I’ve just discovered (I know, lead cave and all that) that I can create more than one tumblelog under the same account.
This totally changed my operating paradigm, so I’ve created a site to contain the reviews I hope to start producing. Check it out at http://reviews.silassnider.com
In addition, as I’ve posted in the ‘Welcome’ post, I’d like to morph it into a...
New (awesome) Blog
I just found out that some English Professor has started taking daily comments and translating them into Middle English. This interests me for several reasons, chief of which is that I’ve always been interested in a field called ‘Historical Morphophonetics’, which is the study of the way sound changes in a language over time. You can really see it in the comics he’s...
Book Review: Xenocide
Just finished reading Xenocide, the third book in the Ender’s Saga series by Orson Scott Card.
I had mixed feelings to start — almost everyone told me that this book was definitely underwhelming, almost a disappointment after Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead, not to mention the xkcd comic on the topic.
Yes, the story was a lot different than I would expect after reading...
How to Get Me to Like Your Software
After hearing all the brouhaha about Google Chrome, I went and looked at their website. Initially, I was skeptical as to whether I would ever use it insted of Firefox, until I saw their comic. Normally, this would be insanely corny, but they pulled it off quite well, which led me to an observation as to the nature of my choices of software:
I will tend to never replace software I already use...