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17,156 and counting..

by and large the book is going very well, pieces of plot keep falling into my lap, have some jokes I rather like and some entertaining set-pieces, i am approximately on target and so far I haven't resorted to the wild desperation of writing any old rubbish, like

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nano onandonandon

back from BENIDORM.. and sad to say there wasn't much in the Spanish sun to inspire my writing, had been expecting to bound ahead but actually fell behind the schedule have 32,000 typed up in total with another couple of thousand of notes to include.. it is

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Low Life

had another go at getting into High Society by Ben Elton but after grinding through another 30 pages or so, this time i'm not going to bother going any further.. seems to be a completely pointless book. it was like trying to eat a whole pack of rice

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how come all my role-models are cartoon characters?

if ever i'm looking for inspiration (and i often am) I do not beseech the gods or even try hopping onto the shoulders of giants, i do not worship the rich and famous from afar or find unalloyed gold among those who i know.. i flip to the

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i would dye for you..

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Debut de Souffle

After last weeks culinary cock up where i managed to burn soup it was perhaps ill-advised to attempt to make a souffle on my next trip to the kitchen. Especially when trying to impress a lady! But happily it rose to the occasion!

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this is your brain

this is your brain.. this is your brain on drugs..

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prologue

A man stood on a hill. He looked up at the stars and tried to remember what on earth he was doing here. Why had he climbed this hill. This often happened to him when going from the living room to the kitchen, but this was the first time it

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phantom

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what do you see?

I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself, what a wonderful world I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful

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8446

http://nanowrimo.org procrastinating by plotting my progress :)

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46,124

i am already feeling the unrelenting pace of this marathon. was doing okay on day one and two, but i had a few leetle drinks last night and am suddenly 2000 words behind the curve. still, i've done 550 so far today

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one monkey, one keyboard

in the midst of all my current typing of highly derivative fiction, it's probably a good time to refer readers to the famous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem

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48163 words to go

I am happy enough with my first days nanowriming, i've done 1837 words so far which ahead of the 1666 per diem requirement and i didn't even use those 160 words I had ready and waiting. Of course, at the beginning we all have a lot

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nanowrimo a go go

http://nanowrimo.org/ last night I figured out an ending for my november novel.. this is a double-edged sword, on one side it is a great ending and so I know where the book is going and where i have to get to, On the other, i've less

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boot me up

We saw these fantastic boots at the  Eroticon 2003 at Olympia New Rock Boots but they don't make them in my size ;) so i wear.. RM Williams

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flying dalek rats

meanwhile, down at the university of Florida they're building an army of brains in vats GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida scientist has grown a living ìbrainî that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.

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Ferrets in the Matrix

In what is clearly a naked attempt to win an Ignobel, Michael Weliky at Rochester has got ferrets to watch the Matrix on DVD, while they had wires coming out the back of their head so he could watch what they were thinking.  In grown-up ferrets, he discovered patterns of

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Bushbot? Make the lie higher.

This is the first article I've seen about the presidential race that includes references from Acta Psychologica or the Psychological Bulletin.. as some guy tries to persuade us that the NLP cues prove that Bush was wired in the debates and was listening to prompts. Bellaciao - Bushís

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nanowrimo

http://www.nanowrimo.org As if I don't have enough to do with my time I've decided to sign up for the National Novel Writing month (aka nanowrimo). The aim is to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of november.

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damn my eyes

A & B really are the same it gets worse if you scroll the page up and down a bit more here

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Nights at the Circus

oh what fools you were to eschew our company on this night of nights.. the others can so easily confirm my story whensoever they should choose to. oh, but that you should have been part of our motley crew. what a night! what goings on . but perhaps i should start

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The Imp of the Perverse

He's the little voice which pleads with you throw yourself off a tall building or take 'passenger action' on the undergrind.  In the Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson infects Half-cocked Jack Shaftoe with it, though unlike most of us, he acts on his Impish whims. So far

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FridgeMagnet

http://www.fridgemagnet.org.uk

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the dream theory of genetic variability

sometime ago now (the night of 9th/10th May to be precise) I dreamt I was explaining this theory to Ailsa; that individuals who are at extremes on some measure of population variability would show greater variability in other independent(?) measures. Not sure if this theory exists or if it