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LibraryThing: Cooking bookpile winners

Well, I didn’t win the $100 AbeBooks prize, but my photo did rank in the “notable entries” list. Cool! Mine is titled “I’m an eclecticook.” LibraryThing’s Abby would apparently attend a dinner party based on this photo; I say hooray to Ben Franklin’s “Fart Proudly” on every plate!

Just visit that top link if you have no idea what I’m blabbering about.

Britain’s Royal Mail is releasing
Harry Potter Stamps on July 17th. There will be one for each cover of the seven books (as published in Britain… they don’t look like any American covers I’ve seen) and the crests for Hogwarts and each one of the houses (Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff). Here’s a little more info.

Looks like France is getting in on Harry Potter stamps, too! That page states that Australia, the Isle of Man and Taiwan have already released Harry Potter stamps. Good for them.

I guess the US is too busy licking George Lucas’ ass with its new Star Wars stamps to think about Harry Potter.

Okay, as far as geeking out intelligently over TV, Monimala made a lot of the points I wanted to make about the season finale of Heroes last night. Some of it was a little hokey (a la the last two episodes) and pushed my otherwise willing suspension of disbelief a little too far. But overall, I think it was a sound episode especially considering that viewers already knew a lot of the story line.

(I have more to say that is not TV-related… maybe not in this post, but soon)

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Okay, I’m getting some good feedback for punBB, so I think I’m going to set that up and try it out for the new forum. Thanks to everyone who sent me emails regarding their opinions on that. I need to start getting ready for my trip to Norway on Thursday, so I’ll probably be motivated to set up the forum before I go. Procrastination is a funny motivator.

On a Heroes side note, it was not as great of an episode as I expected last night. I felt like there was a lot that was being set up, and I hope that next week’s episode (and the season finale the week after) will make up for what was lacking this time.

II still find it interesting that the first story arc had a strong narrative from Mohinder, but that went away and wasn’t replaced by anyone else’s. I liked the narrative story arc, but I suppose the story is too complicated for it to “belong” to any one character right now. Ah well, I’m hooked and they’d really have to mess up the story to disinterest me at this point.

I really want to to know what the hell is up with Mrs. Petrelli, though. Does she have powers? Does she have a connection with Linderman other than through her husband? Also, toward the end of the episode when she pushed Nathan toward Linderman’s decision, was that really her? Or was it scary Mystique-lady?

Speaking of Mystique, I read recently that Tim Kring wasn’t a comics fan and didn’t know anything about X-Men. I say Yeah Right. How could you not know anything about X-Men in this time period? The first movie came out in what, 1999? It’s impossible that you can’t know anything about it! And as a writer, writing in this genre, he should have been responsible enough to at least do research into what might be similar to his plot and/or characters. Maybe he’s too important and he has a staff of geeks to feed him his information.

Grumble, grumble. I’m sad about missing Free Comic Book Day on Saturday. I was hanging out with my parents, who came into town. It’s my own damn fault for not making it primo priority! With my luck, though, I probably would have made it there just in time to get the free, all-that’s-left, lame-ass Archie comic. Thbbbt.

Okay, so I’m getting closer to a decision about which forum software to use. scottymonkeypants has recommended punBB, a more basic and streamlined free forum (unlike the somewhat cumbersome phpBB that we had before). I might also be willing to cough up a little cash to purchase the license for vBulletin.

So now I’m asking for feedback! If you have any opinions about these or other forums, please leave comments here or email geekmaster@innergeek.us.

Thanks so much!

I’m not sure what it is about blogging my personal life that bothers me.

There are lots of things that I have to say that end up in a journal, either on my hard drive or handwritten (so old-fashioned!). Although I think I’ve been writing more overall since the beginning of this blog, it still disappoints me that I’m scared of revealing myself to strangers, online acquaintances and friends. I say revealing because I am not one of those types of people who has no secrets and tells everybody everything they ever wanted to know about me. I’m not a real introvert, either… I just try to keep a balance. But, as my general clutziness reveals, balance is hard.

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