all night long. Zombie churches with AA meetings for zombies, down in the basements, every Thursday night."
"Yeah?" Batu said. "Zombie bars too? Where they serve zombies Zombies?"
Eric said, "My friend Dave went down once, when we were in high school, on a dare. He used to tell us all kinds of stories."
"You ever go?" Batu said, pointing with his empty shovel at the narrow, crumbly path that went down into the Chasm.
"I never went to college. I've never even been to Canada," Eric said. "Not even when I was in high school, to buy beer."
All night the zombies came out of the Chasm, holding handfuls of snow. They carried the snow across the road, and into the parking lot, and left it there. Batu was back in the closet, sending off faxes, and Eric was glad about this, that Batu couldn't see what the zombies were up to.
Zombies came into the store, tracking in salt and melting snow. Eric hated mopping up after the zombies.
He sat on the counter, facing the road, ho
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25 November 2008
Magic for Beginners
The Haunted Pajamas
I tried to think of something they were as red as, but somehow I couldn't fetch the idea. I thought of red ink and blood and fireworks, but they didn't seem to be up to them at all. And a big, velvety petal that dropped from one of the crimson roses just seemed brown beside them.
And yet, dash it, I knew they reminded me of something, you know; I knew they must.
"They remind me" I began, and had to pause idea balked, you know. "They remind me of of Jenkins, what do they remind me of?"
"Of him, sir," replied Jenkins promptly.
"Eh?"
"Old Memphis Tuffles, sir," explained Jenkins darkly. "I saw him once in a opera, and he was that red."
"By Jove!" I said thoughtfully, and fell to watching the little spider. It was dropping a life-line or something down to the pajamas.
"But they say he ain't always red," Jenkins con tinued mysteriously. "A lady as is in the palmistry and car
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08 November 2008
Japanese Prints
Scene from a Drama
The daimyo and the courtesan Compliment each other.
He invites her to walk out through the maples, She half refuses, hiding fear in her heart.
Far in the shadow The daimyo's attendant waits, Nervously fingering his sword.
A Woman in Winter Costume
She is like the great rains That fall over the earth in winter-time.
Wave on wave her heavy robes collapse In green torrents Lashed with slaty foam.
Downward the sun strikes amid them And enkindles a lone flower; A violet iris standing yet in seething pools of grey.
A Pedlar
Gaily he offers Packets of merchandise.
He is a harlequin of illusions, His nimble features Skip into smiles, like rainbows, Cheating the villagers.
But in his heart all the while is another knowledge, The sorrow of the bleakness of the long wet winter night.
Kiyonobu and Kiyomasu
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I. A Scandal in Bohemia
II. The Red-headed League
III. A Case of Identity
IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
V. The Five Orange Pips
VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip
VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana
An ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in the Sanskrit literature. The text was written by Vatsyayana. The author is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries A.D, probably during the Gupta period.
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The Art of War
irst CHUAN, adding that there were two other CHUAN besides. This has brought forth a theory, that the bulk of these 82 chapters consisted of other writings of Sun Tzu -- we should call them apocryphal -- similar to the WEN TA, of which a specimen dealing with the Nine Situations [15] is preserved in the T`UNG TIEN, and another in Ho Shin's commentary. It is suggested that before his interview with Ho Lu, Sun Tzu had only written the 13 chapters, but afterwards composed a sort of exegesis in the form of question and answer between himself and the King. Pi I-hsun, the author of the SUN TZU HSU LU, backs this up with a quotation from the WU YUEH CH`UN CH`IU: "The King of Wu summoned Sun Tzu, and asked him questions about the art of war. Each time he set forth a chapter of his work, the King could not find words enough to praise him." As he points out, if the whole work was expounded on the same scale as in the above- mentioned fragments, the total number of chapters could not fail to be considerable. Then the nu
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Cranford
To praise Cranford at this time of day is an idle task. After being overshadowed for a little, it has taken its place finally among the masterpieces of English fiction, along with Jane Austen and the Vicar of Wakefield. There has never been a more delightful and tender study of English village life, or one in which insight is so joined with kindliness.
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The Spirit of the Border
West of Fort Henry, in the wild and lawless country, the tribes are massing for an attack that will destroy the isolated white settlements. Settlers are doomed unless a few grizzled veterans of the Indian Wars can turn back the angry natives. One veteran is a man of legend and mystery: Wetzel rides through a borderland crawling with outlaws and savages, vowing to rid the frontier of its ruthless predators and to make the territory safe for the bold pioneers of the American West.
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01 November 2008
Google Book
Call me a caveman cause this is the first time I actually visited Google Book. Heard of it numerous times but just couldn’t be bothered, but while I’m still in there browsing through the huge numbers of free ebooks, you might as well do the same. Chances are you already know of it, so smack me in the face and come visit me in the cave.
Google Book or Google Book Search basically separates itself into 3 main categories, namely Fiction, non-Fiction and Random Subjects, which I think is a categorization methods based on simplicity, which is good. Everything is laid out nicely with the ebook covers representing each of its title. Once you’ve selected the ebook that interests you, it’ll simply loads up and ready to be read. The default format of viewing in my opinion, appears to be in PDF, but can be changed to HTML by clicking the option on the bottom right corner. You also have the option of making the viewing area “full screen” for a better non-invasive reading area.
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330 Java Tips
Java is a programming language originally developed by Sun Microsystems and released in 1995. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode, although compilation to native machine code is also possible. At runtime, bytecode is usually either interpreted or compiled to native code for execution, although direct hardware execution of bytecode by a Java processor is also possible.
The language, widely considered to be the most popular platform for web development, derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. JavaScript, a scripting language, shares a similar name and has similar syntax, but is not directly related to Java.
Sun Microsystems provides an open source implementation of a Java compiler and Java virtual machine and most of the class library in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process, available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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My Inbox Is Empty
Stop slaving over your email! Manage it instead of having it manage you. Kimberly has helped many people over the years obtain 100% control of their email by implementing seven simple tips. It’s a quick read and set-up so that you’re only implementing a new tip once a week.
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