So 2011 is about to come splashing onto the scene in less than four hours from now. Of course, that’s when the usual topic comes up about resolutions. What do you resolve to do? I guess my top three list would go like this: 1. Books I seriously have to start reading. I don’t see […]
Fantasy Gathering A dash of wizardry and dragons
Active Worlds’ One Day Sale
Posted by Flagg: One Day Sale! December 31st Activeworlds is having a one day sale from 8am to 8pm EST. Existing citizens can renew for one year at $30 while people can register a new cit for one year at $40. It also includes a new P5/5 world with it. All citizenships have been renewed […]
EBTS4 – Progress
I realized the world didn’t have a default groundcover so I was able to go down a bit below ground. After thinking about it, I figured it’d be neat to have a little waterfall come down and have some buildings around it. It’s the details that’s going to be a pain, I’m sure. I have […]
Coming out of the Dark Ages
I’ve been told that I need to bring my site out of the “dark ages”; that if people are going to read, they prefer light backgrounds and dark text. I didn’t want to tinker with the color theme (I’ve always been fond of light text on dark backgrounds) but I guess it does make sense […]
50 Book Challenge
I keep hearing more and more about this challenge from friends so I got to thinking that since I did awesome during NaNoWriMo, maybe I’ll take up this challenge where the goal is to read at least fifty books in one year. I’m not a reader. I have no patience to open a book and […]
The Cottingley Fairies
“How did this particular book end up in your collection?” Well, it all started many many years ago when two girls decided to cut out paper fairies and take pictures of them! Seriously though, to start at the beginning… SciFi (Now SyFy) aired a movie titled “FairyTale: A True Story”. The movie is based around […]
Princess Mary’s Gift Book
I believe the most interesting book I have in my semi-small collection of books is the Princess Mary’s Gift book from 1915. Inside, it says: All profits from sale are given to THE QUEEN’S “WORK FOR WOMEN” FUND which is acting in conjunction with The National Relief Fund This book has 14 tipped-in color plates: […]
