gizgal Posts

Short answer: He's living the 'American Dream' (without much hard work).

In his current situation, he can basically blow off thousands of dollars a day and still have millions left by the time he dies. People wish they were him I guess.

I can't access the site on my shoe phone neither?

What's wrong with Jack Sparrow?

Downward leveling means only so much to the magnet making corporate giants.

They are all fantasy, with the exception of Orson Scott Card, but you don't get more fictiony than fantasy. You seem to be under an impression that great writing abilities in structured essays transfers to story writing ability.

That is incorrect.

Your voice must be malleable and varied. You must know how to craft a compelling story. You must keep a world, that doesn't exist, consistent with itself for the entire span of your writing. (Not such a problem with short stories though, if that is what you are aiming for) You have to make up characters, entire personalities, appearances, and voices that will be separate from your own voice and personality, and keep them consistent and interesting. You need to be able to paint with your language. To make the reader smell your world. Hear it. Taste it. Feel its texture in the palm of their hand.

There are few similarities between academic analytical writing, and fiction writing. To use the words of one of Patrick Rothfuss' character speaking of chemistry and alchemy: "They're not even related. They just happen to live in the same house."

In short. Use the tips in the OP. Read fiction. Practice writing fiction. There is no shortcut or pointers that will overcome that step in your development.

This movie officially sucks now.

I agree.

Depends on what you consider easy, but it does allow me to watch anime on a big screen. And thanks to it, I have brought several people over to anime. Before they were like "eh, it's okay." Now they are going "Don't you dare watch any without me!"

So it has it's uses. >:D

Really though, they do have some cool titles nonetheless. Like host club and X. That list above is by no means everything, and while they don't always have every season available for online watching, (I use the Wii) they often do have complete seasons of shows that are not beyond 26 episodes.

I say, anime for $8 is a win, even if it is mainstream. As far as I can tell, there are no subbed cuz I haven't seen any, but that's no surprise. Royalties can be a pain. lol

No, there's no real harm in it. That's what it's made for.

Hibernate takes what's in your computer's RAM, writes it to the hard drive, and does a does a normal shut down. The next time you turn on the PC, it reads the saved data off the drive again, and you pick up where you left off. It's like a saved game file. Once the data is saved, you can even remove the battery from the laptop and you won't lose any data.

Sleep mode keeps the PC powered on, but shuts off things like fans and disk drives and screens to save power, and gives minimal power to the CPU and RAM to keep your data saved temporarily. It obviously uses more power than Hibernate, but doesn't waste time loading your saved data from disk.

In either case, there is little risk of damage to your laptop.

However, you might want to restart your laptop occasionally after installing things like system updates.

In certain cases, some badly-written programs may slow down the computer with memory leaks or temp files or other crap over time, in which case a restart will also help to speed things up.

I had her on there, she's just never on.