I succumbed to peer pressure and joined Facebook. I feel bad when things get too busy for me to keep up with people and now I can form networks with an even wider variety of people I can't keep current with. We'll see where it goes I guess. I was already found out of the… Continue reading Because LiveJournal, Blogger, LinkedIn and a web site aren’t enough
Category: Miscellanea
it don’t fit.
You know you want it.
Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver
Again, long time no posts
But then I've been doing things around the house and I just feel too tired to think of much that's witty. So on with random updates: I did take advantage of the nice weather this past weekend to dig some drainage ditches in my backyard. With the clay and multitude of rocks this was not… Continue reading Again, long time no posts
Distracted by the shit
So far the only downside of my job is that I want to go to the company lunch room and socialize with my other workers. This isn't really a downside, except that it means I'm not reading or writing at lunch as I have with every other job in the past ten years. I have… Continue reading Distracted by the shit
Web site update
One thing I neglected to mention is that I finally updated my web site to something more modern. I dumped the former table-dependent layout and went with XHTML and CSS. There are still a few bugs to work out in the stylesheet, but I think they're minor. Hopefully minor.
What the hell are the chances?
In my recent attempt to purchase the domain markladouceur.com, I found out that another Mark Ladouceur already owned it. I also found out that this other Mark Ladouceur is also a fiction writer who's published some short stories and is shopping around a first novel. What the hell are the chances of not just two… Continue reading What the hell are the chances?
On Sale Today: My Youth — Going Cheap
As I was surfing the Web recently, I've noticed a fair bit of excitement on some gaming sites about the release of Dungeons & Dragons third edition. This got me thinking about when my friends and I used to play.We'd be seated around a table in the basement of my friend's parent's basement. A single… Continue reading On Sale Today: My Youth — Going Cheap
Dispatches from Obscurity 