Bill Snodgrass installed a ChatBot at the Sword Review and asked us to
test it out:
http://theswordreview.com/Forum/chat/flashchat.php
August 27, 2005
Bill’s TSR Chatbot
August 19, 2005
Book site
One of my great joys is unexpectedly getting book catalogs in the mail. My wife usually looks at me askance. I think she can hear the paycheck being eaten away. The latest catalog is for Eighth Day Books. Their motto is “Books of Timeless Interest.” They lean toward Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, but there’s still plenty there for Protestants to enjoy.
August 4, 2005
high flyers ought to use nets
http://www.phywriter.com/archives/2005/08/04/high-flyers-ought-to-use-nets/
I picked up a number of CDs at the Dogs show in that guy’s kitchen, among them Terry Scott Taylor’s Avocado Faultine CD that I hadn’t gotten around to getting (which I like more than I expected), the Dogs’ new Island Dreams (which strikes me as Surf Ambient, which I like just fine), and the newest release from The Choir, O How the Mighty Have Fallen.
I’ve noticed that I keep coming back these three discs, especially the latter. Maybe I’m mellowing out in my old age, but I’m quite liking this disc.
These guys have never quite hit the sort of potential that I’ve thought they had, and yet they seem so unique and so settled and so grounded that I like their stuff, no matter how it turns out, and no matter how I yearn for them to just rock out a little more. As long as they have the odd quirky rocker (like “Nobody Gets a Smooth Ride”) and a introspective piece like “Enough to Love”, I’m happy.