Great Day

Yesterday afternoon Daniel and I hit the store and made dinner. He bustled around the kitchen mixing all kinds of things while I chopped veggies and chicken for fajitas. All of this was accompanied by a great soundtrack. I almost flooded my twitter stream with Soundtracker notes, but thought it would be more polite to just post a list here:

• The Impression That I Get - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Beer for My Horses - Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
• American Woman - The Guess Who
• Redneck Woman - Gretchen Wilson
• Sweet New Style - The Tropicals
• Black Coffee in Bed (Full Version) - Squeeze
• I'm a Believer (Radio) - Smash Mouth
• High Lonesome - Jedd Hughes
• Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
• Musicology - Prince
• Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
• Twice As Hard - The Black Crowes
• I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman
• Daughters - John Mayer
• The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
• Season Of The Witch - Blues Brothers Band
• Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
• Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
• Darwin's Children - Edwin McCain
• Bitch - Meredith Brooks
• Our House - Madness
• If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
• Rain King - Counting Crows
• Walk This Way - Joe Perry, Run-DMC & Steven Tyler
• Silver Thunderbird - Marc Cohn
• Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
• Aberdeen - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
• I Play Chicken With the Train (featuring Big & Rich) - Cowboy Troy
• Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold
• When the Sun Goes Down - Kenny Chesney
• Get the Party Started - Pink
• Drops of Jupiter - Train
• The River of Dreams - Billy Joel
• Out of My Head - Fastball
• Red Red Wine - UB40
• Take Me To The River - The Commitments
• Circle - Sarah McLachlan
• Growing Old - The Origin
• Cooksferry Queen - Richard Thompson
• In a Little While - Uncle Kracker
• Why Can't We Be Friends - Smash Mouth
• There She Goes - Brother Love
• Who Do You Love? - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
• Fly - Sugar Ray
• Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
• November Days - The Origin
• Meet Virginia - Train
• Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
• Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
• Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
• The Cover Of Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook
• Walkin' On The Sun - Smash Mouth
• Brainsbodyboth - George Hrab
• Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
• Life In a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
• Kodachrome - Paul Simon
• The Way - Fastball
• Soul Man - The Blues Brothers
• Get a Move On - Mr. Scruff

More Kindle goodies

And while I'm on a Kindle kick, this is certainly not an exhaustive list of my Kindle, but it has a few things you probably haven't seen.

• Release Me (Erotica a la carte: Evening Entrees)
  
• Darby's Bar & Grill
  
• The Gearheart: Maiden Flight of the Avenger
  
• And Then She Was Gone (The Clarke Lantham Mysteries)
  
• THE ROOKIE (Galactic Football League)
  

99-Penny Dreadfuls

Long long ago there existed the penny dreadful. With the advent of The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine opened the world of The Ministry to other authors and podcast a series of short stories under the banner of Tales from the Archives. Now they've begun publishing these stories for Kindle (and Nook, &c, see Smashwords) as 99-penny dreadfuls. So, for your reading pleasure, here are the dreadfuls:

• Darkest before the Darkwater by Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine
  
• The Evil that Befell Sampson by Philippa Ballantine and Pip Ballantine
  
• Dust on the Davenport by O M Grey, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
  
• The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas by Nathan Lowell, Tee Morris and Philippa Ballantine
  
• The Shadows of Calcutta by Phil Rossi, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
  
• Night's Plutonian Shore by Jack Mangan, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
  
• A Ruby in Rain by Grant Stone, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
  

Update: There are some new releases!

• The Seven by P C Haring, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
• From Paris, with Regret by Starla Huchton, Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris

There are also two collections now available:

Tales from the Archives: Collection 1 contains The Evil that Befell Sampson, Dust on the Davenport, The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas, and A Ruby in Rain.

Tales from the Archives: Collection 2 contains Darkest before Darkwater, The Shadows of Calcutta, Night's Plutonian Shore, and The Seven.

Alabama Update

Thanks to all of the help from those who chipped-in, we have sent the following to Alabama:

• 2 Girls Hanes® Butterfly Floral 9-pack Brief Underwear
• 3 Girls Hanes® Assorted Print 9-pack Bikini Underwear
• 3 Girls Hanes® Butterfly Floral 9-pack Brief Underwear
• 4 Boys Cherokee® White 6 pk Brief Underwear
• 2 7 Pack Underwear , Little Girls Little Pony
• 1 Luvs Premium Stretch Diapers - Size 4 (180 count)
• 1 7 Pack Underwear , Little Girls Little Pony
• 1 SuperFriends Toddler Boys 7 Pack Brief - Assorted
• 1 Pampers Baby Dry Diapers Economy Pack Plus, Size 3, 222 Count

Every little bit helps. You've all made the world a slightly better place. Thank you!

Amazing as always: Ze Frank

Tornado relief for Alabama

We're raising money for relief supplies for small towns Haleyville and Hackleburg, Alabama. The money will be used to buy diapers, children's underwear, and hygiene items to be shipped directly to these towns.

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Scott Sigler's Ancestor is Rockin'

Ancestor is a great horror/sci-fi/thriller. Help Scott pump it up on http://backmybook.com

Scott Sigler

Silvervale recommends Ancestor on http://backmybook.com

Digg 4

Digg 4 is adding users by invite. Check out http://new.digg.com/ I'm in. 84327919da3f4d83854b8e9dd1ecb69a

Venture Optimist

Venture Optimist: "

Brad Feld: ‘I think the next 20 years of innovation around software and the Internet will make the last 20 years look like child’s play... I don’t see an endpoint to the human animal’s desire to innovate.’

I love Brad’s optimism. It matches my own. We’re all just barely getting started here.

When I initially read the piece, I mis-read the line as ‘I don’t see an endpoint to the human animal’s desire to communicate.’ Which is also true, and it’s why the internet, that great communication machine, is still brand-new.

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(Via Brent.)

HardTimes :: Hole [VIDEO]

At the end, Ze says to try this, it actually works. I think it's brilliant. Hard times or not, this can make time with a special someone even more special.

HardTimes :: Hole from ze frank on Vimeo.

A Prayer for Mothers and Daughters

HarperCollins has a page up for Mother's Day. It's a really nice video of Charles' artwork with Neil reading his poem. Please go to the page and read Neil's notes about the book too.

The book still makes me cry every time I read it.

Wil Wheaton is a very smart man

I have to say, I'm really impressed with how well Wil thinks on his feet. He did a great job with the well metaphor, and segued from physics to tequila flawlessly. Not bad for just a geek.

(Via Wil Wheaton.)

That’s Quite an Argument

How does Gruber find these geniuses?

So the problem with Apple’s iLife apps is that they’re too good, and kids never learn that they need to struggle with technical issues before using software to express themselves creatively.

(Via Daring Fireball.)

Does She Love You? by Pasha Malla - The Morning News

In case you weren't sure, this should clear it up for you: Does She Love You? by Pasha Malla - The Morning News

Gus Mueller is amazing

He's gone and done it again. Made something amazingly cool and then turned around and let the world have it.

JSTalk's goal can described like this: JSTalk is to AppleScript, what Cocoa is to Carbon.

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And that's my favorite part about JSTalk. You have the option to write your script in a Objective-C like style if you want to. And if you're the type of person who is scared of ['s, you don't have to use them!

(Via Gus's blog, adventures in Flying Meat..)

Some folks get it

Hospital CEO With A Heart Finds An Unusual Way to Avoid Layoffs | Crooks and Liars

But a lot of them realize that everybody's in the same boat and that their boat doesn't rise because someone else's sinks.

Franklyn looks pretty cool

I have to say, this movie looks awfully good. I seem to be developing an ever-growing affinity for steam-punk.

OK, I made one of these

Finally got one of these made.

Mine looked like this: