A Memory Of Light

Haven't posted here in a while. But finishing the Wheel of Time series seemed like a moment worthy of putting up a post.

Often times in fantasy novels the last 10% or so of the book will be the big final battle scene. Well in this case since this was book #14 they were able to dedicate a large portion of the 900 pages to a non-stop battle scene. Normally that would just seem crazy, but having built the characters and the world so completely already it actually worked. If anything I think there could have been more. It did end up feeling very different from the previous books, but I think that is fair. Of course if this would have moved at the pace of the previous books it would have taken another 14 books to finish.

Just looked up Hinderstap to figure out the trick Mat pulled. Hm, I wonder how many other references to the previous books that I missed.

Well before it fully hits me that the series is really over and that I won't be seeing those characters again, I'll download the latest Game of Thrones book to try to distract myself. Gar - I had been told that book 6 of Song of Ice and Fire had come out. Now that I realize that's not true I need to find another way to distract myself for a while.

Patent #2 Granted!

Apparently we still haven't reached the day when I'll stop posting about the status of patents I'm on.

My second patent (which I'm also first inventor on) was just granted! And the version with pretty pictures. (8/16/2011 link fixed)

Mystery Solved

Ok, mystery solved. Not so surprisingly it is the family members I've been playing phone tag with since my birthday. Yay now it is time to use my birthday present!

Yoda USB Drive

Someone was nice enough to buy a Yoda USB drive for me. I like the little Yoda statue so it is sitting on my stereo next to my computer. And according to the box it has a huge amount of memory. It showed up right around my birthday so I'm assuming it is a birthday present.

However, I have no idea who it is from. I'd like to use it, but this is how nuclear reactors get taken down (yeah, I know the US and Israeli governments aren't looking to put a virus on my computer, but I'm still going to avoid plugging in a random USB drive).

So if you bought it for me or know who did, please let me know cause I'd like to say thank you and I'd like to start using it. For now I'll just use it as a figurine, maybe if I don't find out who it is from I'll go to an internet cafe and see if there is anything on there.

Oh, and around the same time I got a DaVinci shirt with the guy playing a guitar. Luckily that one I can just wash and then use, but I'd like to thank whoever got it for me.

Google+

So far google+ seems a lot like facebook, but with more email. And less people.

I don't really feel like setting up yet another profile and stream of info. And I know no one is forcing me, but I like to keep up with the crowd. It is nice that google tries to be kinda smart about who is in your network and how they are connected to you.

BUT this is GOOGLE, I don't want it to make suggestions about who I know. I want it to scrape the entire series of pipes and tubes for information and media about me and create a profile and on going log of my activities that is a more active and realistic view of me than I could create.

Ok, that would be a little scary, and there should be some controls on it. But google should really take advantage of the fact that they know a whole lot about people when they make a personal info sharing site.

Oh, yeah, that uproar over google buzz, never mind, back to picking out a picture for google's facebook.