Little iPod Lost

Just got back from World Fantasy, and will likely post a wonderful con report like thing tomorrow, but I wanted to just quickly, before passing out from exhaustion, put out this notice that I seem to have misplaced my iPod, and so if anyone at the convention happened to have found one, to please let me know. It’s a brand new 80 GB black video iPod, in a black Marware case. If you take it out of the case, it’ll be obvious it’s mine, as it’s got my name and phone number engraved on the back of it.

I’ve called lost and found at the hotel I stayed at, at the con hotel, and the rental car place, but all of their lost and found departments were closed for the night, so it’s possible it’ll turn up at one of these places. No need to check the airline, as I checked no luggage, and it was on the plane that I discovered it was missing. But if anyone has any other ideas, please speak up! It would be quite sad if I’ve lost it; I only just bought it like a week or two ago.

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Ralan’s 2006 Grabber Contest

Ralan just posted the winning stories of the 2006 Grabber Contest. My friend Amy Tibbetts won for her story “Builders of the Bone Castle,” which you can read here. The second and third place winners (and honorable mentions) can be accessed by the buttons at the top of the page; initially, I didn’t notice them there and was looking for links in the main Table of Contents page, so that’s why I point it out. Congrats to Amy, and to the other winners!

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Lack of Updates

Sorry about the lack of real updates lately. Hope to post some more soon. But you can blame it mostly on the two following things:

(1) I’m remodeling my house (and today saw my bathroom completely demolished so as to start from scratch)

and

(2) I got a new Verizon XV6700 phone, which I’ve alternately loved and hated, and so it has occupied much of my time trying to figure out how to use it exactly (and to decide if I want to cancel my contract before my 15 day trial period ends)

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Rock Arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon

If you like guitar at all, you have to check this out. Apparently, there was a whole internet phenomenon that I completely missed out on: this guy, known as funtwo, recorded audio and video of himself playing this kick-ass rock arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon, and posted it to a Korean website (which was later then posted to YouTube by someone else).

It’s really amazing just watching this guy play. Some of the commenters on YouTube said that it’s not *that* hard to play, but it’s a pretty cool video, watching this guy just play this technically stunning guitar, while displaying almost none of the emotion typically displayed by guitar players.

And to add to the coolness factor: no one knew who he was for months. But now there’s a New York Times story about him.

This makes me want to hear rock arrangements of more classical music.

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