not a japanese toy

August 26, 2003 by Andrew | Permalink

It’s National Novel Writing Month: NaNoWriMo.org : Home – What is NaNoWriMo?
And it’s a very cool idea.
Lowering expectations is something I’m having to master. I want to be the best at it, ever!

Please visit the OmniShrine Wiki!

Rather than commenting on this blog, where hardly anyone will ever see what you said or asked, why not post your thoughts in a space that’s more suitable?

Try the OmniShrine Wiki!

I set it up so that fans of Omni can share information, and also be able to subscribe to comments or page changes, so that you can more easily keep up with the conversation!

The comment area on this post doesn’t act like a discussion list; there’s no way for anyone to be alerted of a question or an answer to one posted. That’s why the wiki is your best bet.

Thanks!

My original post is below. The omnimag.com link no longer takes you to the site I referenced back in 2003, but you can still see the glorious prehistoric black-background web experience via the magical “Wayback Machine” archive here via the Wayback Machine.

ORIGINAL POST:

Growing up, I was an avid reader of Omni Magazine.
I lost touch with it after high school, and I heard they’d tried doing their thing online, but then it had kind of died on the vine.
And I ran across the site today…how weird, that it’s still sitting there. A ghost town.
The design is so perfect for mid-to-late 90s ‘cool’ website design. Lots of 3D shapes floating in black space.
I wonder if anybody still tries entering the “Deconstructing the Titanic Sweepstakes” there?

The Neuromancer returns

February 3, 2003 by Andrew | No comments

William Gibson has a new book out today. Pattern Recognition. Since everybody’s saying this is his best work since Neuromancer, I may have to go buy it in hardcover and drop everything else I’m reading. And, who knew the man had a blog? And why wasn’t I told???

I’m on Weinberger’s List

August 26, 2002 by Andrew | No comments

I’ve been added to the list of reviewers at the official site for Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Is this a good thing, or is this his “fecal roster”?

And what are “discusssions”? Conversations that leak a lot of hot air?

Speaking of which, I think my review at Boxes & Arrows generated a record low number of comments. Another observation of which I am not sure what to make. (Proper syntax really screws with some phrases.)

For even more on the book, remember my further ramblings.

Further adventures of Small Pieces

July 22, 2002 by Andrew | Permalink

I finally finished reading Small Pieces
Loosely Joined. It took me quite a while because I was also writing a review
of it for Boxes &Arrows, which should be coming out as soon as they finish gutting and revising it so that it
makes sense. This is a tough book to review in 1500 words, and I cranked out a
wheelbarrow full of other stuff I was trying to say that I ended up taking out.
So, as a supplement, I’m going ahead and putting this very long and winding post.

If you’re interested in more of what I liked and wondered about in the book, read
away. If you really don’t care, that’s fine, it’s the Web! You can click to someplace else.

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