Trying to remember a specific science fiction novel

By Dr. Mike on January 15, 2010 11:36 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I posted this on the Unshelved Answers forums but I thought I would post about it as well.  I've been trying to remember this title for quite some time now.  It was one of the books I lost with Angie.  I was in the middle of it when I had my health problems back in 1999 so I would like to finish it.

Greets:

Just going to throw this out an yet another attempt to see if anyone remembers it. It's an Apocalyptic setting where the main character, I believe a young female, is undergoing her adulthood trial which consists of climbing a mountain. At the top she discovers aliens living there.

I remember it being a Science Fiction Book Club title as I received it in the same shipment as Nancy Kress' Beggars of Spain so that would put it 1993ish.

It's not Battlefield Earth which usually gets suggested to me when I ask.

Thanks, -drmike


We've moving

By Dr. Mike on January 13, 2010 9:15 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)
Greets:

Just a quick mention that I'm moving sites around today.  I bought myself a small VPS for my Christmas present this year and am spending the day moving the sites over to it.  Things may be broken for a bit.  Just a heads up. :)

thanks,
-drmike

edit: Quick Web got back to me to let me know that they have a coupon for a 25% discount recurring for the life of the account.  If you pick up a XEN VPS, be sure to enter XEN25 during check out. (I think it says so on their site but just to throw that in there.)

Silly Spammers

By Dr. Mike on January 6, 2010 7:20 AM | Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)
spam.jpgI get the silliest comments left by spammers on my sites. 

"The thing is I already knew this info but never implemented it"

I'm so glad that Cynix Hood was worth that much for you. :)

edit: It's a pity though that the spammer is using deviantart for their crud.  Link added here so I can follow up on it later on.  It's been reported though.

I learned something today

By Dr. Mike on January 4, 2010 7:27 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Yup, still alive.  Bellringing is all over with and I'm playing catch up as quickly as I can.  In the middle of some projects.

Anyway I've learned that learned that silk screened shirts should be washed inside-out to maximize their longevity.  I didn't know that.  Had tons of them after college that I wore quickly over the years that Angie kept nagging me about.  I wonder if they would have worn better if I had done that.

I mostly wear collared polo shirts now a days.

Now you learned something as well. :)

An Early Christmas Present: Demonoid is Back Online

By Dr. Mike on December 13, 2009 7:32 PM | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)
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Just yet another quick mention in case you didn't see the article on Torrent Freak that Demonoid is back online and sort of working.  The forums are still offline but maybe that's a good thing as it'll give the moderators a chance to review the rules one more time and hopefully pay attention to this this time around.  The servers still seem to be stressed a bit as 404's and Server overloaded errors abound. 

The tracker has been up for awhile now.  The indexer and the main site have now returned.

Yes, I have invites but no I'm not giving them out as I don't want to put my own account at risk. (edit: I think waiting until they resolve the rest of their issues would be best anyway before overtaxing their servers with new users.)

Neville Would Have Done It In Four Books

By Dr. Mike on November 14, 2009 3:11 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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Yup, I like T-Shirts. (Especially when there's a cute babe in them.) I had dozens of them when I was in college. Most of them were fairly well warn out by the time Angie showed up in my life. I know she was eying them hoping that I would get rid of them. (Me wear sweaters?  Eeew!  *shudder*) Just because there was a few holes in them.  They weren't that bad.

Anyway I was poking around Topato and noticed this shirt created by the folks from Sam and Fuzzy: The Neville Would Have Done It In Four Books shirt.

Yup, it's more Harry Potter stuff.  I've blogged about Harry Potter previously.  Who can forget 50 Things NOT To Do At Hogwarts?

Could Neville done it in four books?  I have to wonder.  I've always taken the view that while the Harry Potter books were fairly tight, I always wanted to know more about the school and what was happening in the background.  The movies are known for cutting parts out of the books.  If I said that Neville could have done it in four books, that means even more would have been taken out. 
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