Archive for August, 2008
Blogging as Advertising
Thursday, August 28th, 2008On the one hand, I agree with what Jonathon McCalmont has to say in his post Playing the Man, Not the Ball. There’s a credibility issue at work, at times, when bloggers conflate criticism with advertising and make an unholy mix. A critic who purports to analyze a book and assess its quality and place [...]
Stargate: The Next Deep Original Space Voyager Enterprise Generation Nine?
Friday, August 22nd, 2008I don’t hang out in the GateWorld forum, so I don’t know whether or not this has been discussed to death, but… Doesn’t this make it sound like Stargate is trying to be more like Star Trek than less? Seriously? Or maybe it’s a brilliant Star Trek/Quantum Leap mash-up! Yeah. Every week, the plucky team [...]
Oh, John McCain, No
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I thought about doing another open letter in response to this sweet bit from the McCain camp, considering I play Dungeons & Dragons and am a veteran, but I decided I’ve already done my one blog open letter for the year, and I was going to be a little too nasty. Instead, I e-mailed them. [...]
Wisconsin Trip
Monday, August 4th, 2008So, this weekend we moved my sister to Wisconsin so she could start her new job in academia. The driving itself was … ridiculous to say the least. Maneuvering a moving truck through Chicago traffic? Not my idea of an awesome time, but we made it through okay without too much trouble. It took all [...]
Twitter?
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008There’s more I’m sure I’ll be blogging about this week, but for now I just wanted to say that I’ve caved into the complete lack of peer pressure and gotten a twitter account. Username, imaginatively, is davidklecha. I know, shocking, right? Follow me at your peril.