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To E-Book or Not to E-Book?

14 Saturday May 2011

Posted by cosmichomicide in Books, Cosmic Questions, Geeky, Paperless

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One of those interesting paperless questions that tends to torture me.  Do I read e-books?  Yes, I have the Kindle app as well as other assorted e-book readers on both my iPad and my Windows 7 phone and I’ve read books, technical documents and short stories on them.  Obviously, this is the truly paperless solution and more than likely the one we will all be using exclusively in the future.  With more and more authors choosing to e-publish only, schools incorporating more digital texts, libraries providing e-book downloads and readers getting cheaper and cheaper, it’s pretty much a done deal.

It’s going to be a sad day for me.  I love to hold a book.  Books never have low batteries or glare issues.  You can tell from my much older articles I think PaperBackSwap is one of the best sites around and I’m still a religious user.  That said, it’s a lot heavier to carry a selection of books than an eReader and you don’t have to worry about the bookmark falling out.  I love being able to switch from device to device and synch up to my last stopping point.  Electronic publishing has made short stories and novellas more accessible as individual products.  It’s certainly easier for new authors to publish electronically and for established authors to promote shorter works.

In truth, I’m just looking for the perfect tablet to add to my paperless arsenal.  While I doubt I’ll be jumping to new release books anytime soon, you never can tell – I would dearly love to see a format for eBooks similar to the all-you-can-eat Zune Pass model for music.   That, my friends, would probably be the start of a serious reduction in physical books around our place.

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Cities I'm Always Happy to Visit (and wouldn't mind living, either):

07 Saturday May 2011

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There are many many more that could go on the list if it were just to visit – Hamilton, San Francisco, London, New Orleans, Vancouver, Chicago. And if the list were cities I’d like to visit, there’s another whole list – but places to move and live… that’s a smaller group.

 
Washington Monument – Washington, DC. (Explored!)

Munich, Germany – food, beer, music, architecture, wonderful people.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – red wine, amazing beef, tango clubs.

Sydney, Australia – nothing not to love here.

Washington, DC – museums, monuments, gardens, just an all around terrific city.

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A Few Movies for a Weekend…

19 Saturday Mar 2011

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“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.  All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.  Time to die.” – Roy, Blade Runner

“Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a  mandate from the masses, not from some farcicial aquatic ceremony!” – Dennis, Monty Python & the Holy Grail

“You hate people!”
“But I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic?” – Randal & Dante, Clerks

Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest, And like a forest it’s easy to lose your way… To get lost… To forget where you came in. – Hattori Hanzo, Kill Bill: Vol. 1

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Hello world! Sorta. =}

14 Monday Mar 2011

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Migrated over from my live space blog, finally registered cosmichomicide.com (been meaning to do that for years) and trying to decide what direction I want to go in for 2011, late though I may be in starting.  I suppose I could go with a change or achievement every month that moves me towards a personal goal (working with the theory that it takes a month to engrain a habit).  That way I could count finally getting the domain names I wanted registered, completing two of my ITIL certifications and being most of the way towards my books read goal for the year.  🙂

One other idea was to evangelize my passion – the truly paperless home and office.  Then there is also revisiting the cash savings areas from my cheapskate posts and see how they are doing, maybe look for new cost cutters.  I could go cliched and do a bucket list or vow to write x amount per week or go through some series of literary exercises or – or not…

But hey, blogging is on the way out, slithering down the backside of the curve, pushed out by emoticons, social netbites, digital talking points – so does it really matter?  So, I’ll think about it and probably do a bit of it all.  So, hello world (again, sorta)!

Tang and Tazo – Starbucks Meets Space Drink

16 Saturday Sep 2006

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I’m dating myself a bit here, but back in the day when Tang was all the rage, moms (including mine) made a hot winter drink called “Russian Tea” with Tang, instant tea mix, lemonade mix and other spices.  Veddy tasty and loaded with sugar and other stuff.  I loved it.  Last week in Vancouver I had an odd desire for hot tea and noticed “Wild Sweet Orange” by Tazo in the club lounge.  One sip and I was having a flashback.  Not actually a tea, rather an herbal infusion, this is a non-caffeinated trip back to the day when every space launch caused the world to come to a halt and kids knew the names of the astronauts on every mission.  Annoying flash in popup new-agey website is located here and the trendy resistant part of me hates that this is a Starbucks company, but I can’t deny it’s good stuff.
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