Amnesia

Scalzi’s Weekend Assignment #180: Build a Bumper Sticker
For this Weekend Assignment I thought we’d do something easy. Because it’s August, and that’s just the wrong month to think:
Weekend Assignment #180: Go to this bumper sticker generator, and create a bumper sticker. Then post it in your journal. The generator page gives you a number of [...]

Scalzi’s Monday Photo Shoot: Find a picture from 2003 and post it. Any picture is fine; it just has to be from the now-oh-so-distant year of two thousand aught-three. Surely you have pictures from then? Yes?
 
I don’t think I had a camera during 2003. Perhaps it was broken but this is the only picture I [...]

Scalzi’s Weekend Assignment #179: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: of all the days of the work week, which is your favorite? Yes, I know a lot of people will default toward Friday, because it’s an easy one, but I hope you will actually put some thought into your response and give each day its [...]

Scalzi’s Weekend Assignment #178: It’s hot. Everywhere. Really hot. Counteract it with a cool and refreshing photo or story of winter. Yes, we’ve done something like this before. And, if you recall, it worked. Also, it’s easy and it’s too hot to do anything complicated. So let’s do it again (just, you know, don’t reuse [...]

Weekend Assignment #154: Your Car or Your Computer? :  John Scalzi says that you must choose between the car — beloved icon of American greatness and freedom — and the computer — the defining machine of the 21st century. If you choose the car, you do not get to touch a computer again, except for basic [...]

The Sinister, Cursed Abomination from the Legendary Zodiac Isle is itching to know the other monsters out there in the multiverse.
So take the challenge, post an avatar or a link to your blog and let us both know.

Your Monday Photo Shoot: Fridge Magnets!
I’m snowed in today with a sick toddler to boot, so I’ve been refreshing blogs left and right, when she’s been sleeping. So thanks for giving me something to do. I used to have a lot of fridge magnets, but we’ve moved a few times in the past year and [...]

Weekend Assignment #153: When Computers Attack
Ever since my father had a stroke 2 years ago, we have been webcamming to watch over each other.  He bought a really great camera and decided to buy me one as well. However, my system did not like the custom driver installation option. I immediately started getting Dr. Watson errors [...]

This was the first post I had ever written, and while I was walking down memory lane, I remembered how much fun it was to do.
So I did it again. The first song is from the first post. The second, is from the present. Enjoy and complete it yourself. Link back your blog! 

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence.
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. List the name of the book and the author.

Bluff: In general, being either famous or infamous aids Bluff checks. However, any Bluff check made to deny or hide [...]