http://www.antimodal.com/ Art, technology, and hype from the desk of Brandon Rickman en-us 2008-04-15T23:19:39-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000227.html I was hoping to upgrade my blog to Movable Type 4.1, and potentially allowing comments to the site once again, but my web host only has a perl installation of 5.0 and MT 4.1 requires 5.6. So I guess I'll... musings B Rickman 2008-04-15T23:19:39-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000226.html Finished A Prayer for Owen Meaney. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger. Still working on Trainspotting. Did not finish the new Pinker book.... books B Rickman 2008-04-15T22:41:17-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000225.html Fight Club (1996) by Chuck Palahniuk. Pointless. This is the second book I've read by Palahniuk, and I think I get the gist: although he doesn't care much about writing, it is a good way to make a living. Other... books B Rickman 2008-03-03T23:52:40-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000224.html On February 23 my wife and I went to sell Billy Joel perform in Anaheim. Here's a list of the songs he played at the concert: Angry Young Man It's My Life Everybody Loves You The Entertainer The Ballad of... city B Rickman 2008-02-24T00:34:16-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000223.html After reviewing my 2007 reading list I felt I needed to boost the quality of my reading. This happens every now and then. And so I naively return to the famous authors, those brilliant Pulitzer and Nobel earners, to see... books B Rickman 2008-02-04T12:48:30-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000220.html The holidays gave me some time to catch up on my reading. I didn't start anything new, but I did finish Sophie's Choice by William Styron, which I started in October of 2006. At times Styron's writing is very forced,... books B Rickman 2008-01-02T11:00:52-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000219.html Well folks, it looks like one of the least entertaining tycoon games of all time is now on its third release: Prison Tycoon 3: Lockdown is now available. I can't tell you anything about it aside from the information on... games B Rickman 2007-12-27T15:13:59-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000218.html Reread of Postmortem (1990) by Patricia Cornwell. The first Kay Scarpetta novel, which is now up to fifteen books. I first read this in 1996 or 1997, just before I started work on Dr. K---. The Spriggan Mirror (2006) by... books B Rickman 2007-11-23T17:15:41-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000217.html Ah, such a silent blog. Does anybody stop by anymore? I can't tell, because no one can leave comments. In September I read: A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin. The writing gets better after the first hundred... books B Rickman 2007-10-02T23:37:47-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000215.html I am in progress on two books, and have finished two books in the past two months. In progress: Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. Currently on page 406 (the end of part 2). In progress: 20th Century Chemistry by... books B Rickman 2007-09-05T23:45:54-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000214.html I have disabled comments on the blog. The attempts to post spam are endless, and less than 10% of the comments that make it through the spam filter contain real content. It is a poisoned well.... spam prevention B Rickman 2007-07-05T12:13:11-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000213.html The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (1966), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1967. In progress: Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. At 1000+ pages and over one hundred characters this will be a long-term project.... books B Rickman 2007-07-05T12:04:12-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000212.html In April I picked up Disgrace by J M Coetzee, which won the 1999 Man Booker prize. It is written very sparsely -- so much so that significant racial distinctions between the characters are not clear at the outset --... books B Rickman 2007-06-01T12:50:55-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000211.html or A4O0YC, I have blacklisted all *.se domains from submitting comments. This appears to be a new spam tactic, or combination of tactics. The first is to submit a meaningless string in a comment, which is used with a search... spam prevention B Rickman 2007-05-11T18:30:58-08:00 http://www.antimodal.com/archives/000210.html I found this hand written flyer posted in the underground garage of my local grocery store: Attention Shoppers and/ Car Burglar On Wednesday April 25th between 8:30 and 11:30 someone stole two center caps off my aluminum wheels. I have... city B Rickman 2007-04-30T11:05:02-08:00