OK, so I'm tinkering with the Blogging application Moveable Type. You are reading the result. That's just about all that I decided to write for now.

Books I have recently bought, read, or am currently reading:

* The Skies of Pern (halfway done)
* The Ringworld Throne
* Bhagavad-Gita
* The Dawn of Amber (done)
* Watership Down (done)
* The Ringworld Engineers (I've already read it, and bought it mostly for completeness' sake)

This will probably trigger me rereading:

* The Great Book of Amber
* All of the Pern books that I own

I am also currently rereading:

* The more-than-complete Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Finished the Pern book about 4 hours after my last post. I'm now 3/4ths the way through rereading Ringworld Engineers after discovering I'd forgotten a lot of what happened. I started it last night after I spent most of yesterday watching the rest of the Stargate SG-1 Season 2 set.

You might say I can get a bit voracious about both books and videos when I'm on a roll... I just have a lot of inertia.

Today I put in an order for the first two volumes of the anime Excel Saga, which seems incredibly insane, just how I like it. I also got the Buffy Season 2 set (finally -- I've been slacking).

Liked last night's episode of Buffy, though it wasn't quite as amusing as the season seven premiere. James Marsters did a good job being crazy-scary Spike.

Finished Ringworld Engineers. Haven't gotten seriously into Ringworld Throne yet. Been busy with stuff. (My time has been siphoned away by projects for anthropology, redesign of the Superluminal Goddess for Star Wars, and rumblings of a Stargate game and my subsequent need to re-work the mechanics of the gate system.) I'm glad this Friday is Fall Break.

Incidentally, the title of this entry is a reference to one of those old VCR games one of my friends has. This one is about monsters. The narrator dreadfully overacts, listing the mummy as "Khufu, (pregnant pause) Da Moomie!" (sic).

Yesterday, I picked up a router for the LAN I set up at the Geek Palace*, a new CD drive for Ming the Merciless**, The Buffy roleplaying game, and the Starships of the Galaxy sourcebook for Star Wars.

I really need to work on my impulse-buying tendencies.

* This is my roommates' name for the house we live in.

** Ming is my old Pentium 200 computer, so named because of the red and gold paint job I gave it; the cd drive was a replacement for the one I broke in the process. Now I can install Linux on it and move it into my room for use as a remote terminal (as soon as I get around to running wiring that far away from the "bridge", which is the area where all the other computers are).