Wynderlon

Of course, this is the opinion of someone who:

1. doesn’t like Apple products (please don’t send me emails/comments that start with “You iTouch/iPhone/iOther hating Nazi”)
2. doesn’t believe in DRM restrictions (if I don’t allow Big Brother to come into my house and swipe my paperbacks off my bookshelves, why would I let Amazon?)
3. doesn’t really have the money to afford a decent e-reader at about $250 a pop and then electronic versions of a book which can’t really be shared with friends easily and are still more expensive than a mass market coupled with a 30% off coupon from Borders or a used copy from Bookman’s.

Why am I talking about ebooks? Because I tried to find an e-reader program today to install on my computer so I could read some free ebooks I’d collected. And thus the headache began. I admit, I wanted a freeware version since I don’t read enough ebooks to warrant any kind of investment, but I did try many free trial softwares. And I came to an important conclusion: there’s too many different formats for ebooks and no program that adequately reads all of them. Even the ones that boasted reading “many different formats” ran into snags. I ended up having to download 3 separate programs. Some were very snazzy, but had sacrificed ease of usability for “oooh aaah” factor, while some were butt ugly, highly easy to use, but only allowed for one or two formats.

So until the day comes with someone makes an ebook reader with an ebook software that’s user-friendly and affordable, I think I’m gonna stick to the old school stuff of paper. And boy do I sometimes need my fix…in order to read what happened next in a new series I may be slightly addicted to, I drove down to Borders yesterday at 10pm (B&N changed their hours) and plunked down my money for the next book. Then spent five minutes in my car stroking the cover and going “My precious.” (not really…or did I? )

I actually like Lady Gaga’s music, and her outfits are wild. But this music video may top all the previous ones. It’s bizarre…oh, and not work safe (and look! It’s Beyonce and the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill!). Enjoy

Thought I’d quickly post, a quick “Hi!” as it were. I didn’t get a lot done today, yet it was a busy day. I spent a lot of it trying to outline “Tayce” and get my background information together and in one place. Along with some other chores (the list is long and boring). Anyway, I did find a great new song that I listened to while writing a pretty steamy scene in “Tayce.” I’m going to track it down on Amazon and see if I can buy the track.

And now, I’m off to read a chapter of IT (which is one of the few Stephen King novels that I love and tend to read again and again. And, it’s a story that always manages to creep me out big time. *shudder* Clowns) while my homemade guacamole cools. Then…yup, you guessed it. Champagne and the next 4 episodes of Supernatural.

A Flickr user set up a challenge: design a cover for Lolita. The result? 164 covers for a story all about pedophiliac love. Or, you know, whatever theme you want to argue.

Some of the covers are disturbing, some downright artistic, and some look like they were slapped together in five minutes using Adobe Photoshop and stock imagery. However, it is interesting to see what people think of when they think Lolita. I tried to pick a favorite and couldn’t, although this one might win for sheer “Eeew” factor.