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Schlock Mercenary now available as an eBook from Baen!!!

For those of you who know me, I’m a huge fan of Sluggy Freelance among other webcomics. There’s another great one out there called Schlock Mercenary, which  – by the by — is the inspiration for John Ringo’s great Troy Rising series. I haven’t been able to get into Schlock simply because there’s too many years of comics to catch up on and I have too much to do to catch up on it. (I’m constitutionally incapable of just starting where it is and going from there, I MUST read all the back comics.) However, for all you Schlock fans, the comics are now available as a PDF eBook from Baen’s Webscriptions. I’m going to see if I can find someone willing to do a review and maybe an overview for us over at … Read entire article »

I think I need Thinkgeek rehab…

I’m a huge fan of the Web site ThinkGeek.com. Big surprise given what a huge geek I actually am. The transition over the years from geeks being objects of derision when I was a kid, to it now being cool to actually be a geek (as opposed to a nerd, which I’m told still isn’t cool) has been somewhat amusing for me to watch. Well, sort of amusing, to some degree annoying, it would have been nice for this transition to happen about 25 years ago when I was in school. That being said, I get a huge kick out of some of the toys and gadgets (some of them actually useful!) on ThinkGeek. I mean really, who doesn’t need a set of lightsaber chopsicks or a USB-powered rocket launcher that lets you … Read entire article »

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