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Ringtones

I discovered yesterday that I could assign separate ring tones to groups of contacts in my cellphone. I'd sort of known this but hadn't ever done much with it. This information lay forgotten until I started fooling around with ring tones on my phone. Family gets "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream. It's sort of a shitty sound - lots of compression - but for Christ's sake, it's only a bloody ring tone. Choosing a ring tone to match a given person (much less a group of people) can be a tricky business. But not always. Easiest decision I ever made? Assigning the Imperial March (Darth Vader theme) to Work calls. Yes, Lord Vader. Speaking of which, the funniest Star Wars related bit of humor I've ever seen is this bit from Robot Chicken (not exactly Work suitable, unless you wear headphones).

National Novel Writing Month - 2006 edition

Once again it's National Novel Writing Month . The challenge: write 50,000 words in 30 days. It can be done. There's nothing like spending the Thanksgiving break staying up into the wee hours pounding out pages. You won't have time for that second piece of pumpkin pie. Update on my effort in 2004: I've got 20 pages left to revise in the 2nd draft and then I begin the 3rd pass. If I can get this done before the week is out I'll start the next epic (last year's effort fizzled out in an ignoble failure).