Timewaster's Guide Archive

So, Conduit starts tomorrow (I've been waiting for it all year). I'm going, anyone else?

Any advice for a first time Conduit goer? The only other convention I've been to is Comic Con, and I'm thinking this will be nothing like that.

How'd you like to see this when taking out the trash?



And if you don't like Seafood, you can always try the other white meat . . .

http://www.cracked.com/article_17039_9-real-life-mad-scientists.html

"See, it turns out Harlow wasn't big on using euphemisms to make people feel better about his experiments. And that's a problem, because he decided early that the best way to find out the nature of love was by torturing baby monkeys.

So when it came time for Harlow to present his findings, we're guessing he just summed it up as, "What is love? Well, you know that feeling you get when you've been locked in a tiny dark space alone for a year? It's the opposite of that.""

LOL, you can't make up stuff like this.

Sorry for the big submission and for posting twice in a row. This is a submission for a class that I need to turn in tomorrow so I'd appreciate all the input I could get. It's pretty much supposed to be what you would submit to a publisher (the first 3 chapters of your book).

Thanks in advance for the help!

Alright, I've finished reading everything on my bookshelf today and now I am looking for something else to read.

I just finished Worldbinder by David Farland, which I really liked.
Last week I read The Hero of Ages, before that I read Tithe and Valiant by Holly Black. (Loved Valiant).
I've recently read the Age of Fire books and Fall with Honor by E. E. Knight.

I've got a few series of books that I haven't finished yet, but then again I am not sure I really want to finish them, they are:

The Merry Gentry Series by Laurell K. Hamilton. I finished Mistral's Kiss. I am a huge fan of all things Fae and Sidhe but the sex is pretty overboard. Not sure if I want to read about any more enchanted, spiritually enlightening, gangbangs.

The Merchant Princes by Charles Stross. I think I finished book two, The Hidden Family and stopped. Anyone know if anything really exciting happens in books 3 or 4?

The Dragonriders of Pern. I think I finished book one and then Well of Ascension came out.

The Thomas Covenant books. A lot of people have told me they are great, I think I got near the end of book two and got bored.

Books that I loved:

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. My all time favorite books.
The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust.
The Kingdom of Thorn and Bone by Gregory Keyes.
The Rhapsody series by Elizabeth Haydon (I wish she would put out another one already, is the woman dating George R. R. Martin or something?)
The Ender books.
The Crown of Stars by Kate Elliott
The Farseer books by Robin Hobb.
The Fae Fever series by Karen Moning
Name of the Wind

I just don't know what to start on next. I think I would actually really like something along the lines of Valiant or the Merry Gentry series. I like the Fae, Faerie, Sidhe, Tuatha de Danna, etc. I really loved the Fae in Name of the Wind. I don't mean like Tinkerbell but I really like dark Fae from old folk tales, etc. Anything with that kind of a feel would be awesome.

Any suggestions? 

Hey everyone,

I just moved back to Utah from San Diego and I'm looking for a group to join now that I am back. I'd really like to find a GURPS game if possible and if it helps I prefer 3rd edition to the new 4th but I'm more then willing to play a 4e game too (hey, its still better then D&D right  ).

If anyone has an Amber group going that would be cool too, but that's probably too much to hope for . . .

-Erik