Narf!

I can't think of anything to say, but I must post something!

One thing I can say is: at Chuck's house, I looked at a book that had a very "British Terry Pratchett" look to the cover. This was because it was published by the same British publisher (Corgi), with the same artist who illustrates Terry's British books (Josh Kirby) and with the same kind of overall layout style. But the book was a collection of short stories with the title "The Flying Sorcerers". This collection includes a lot of short fantasy/fantastic works that were clearly not written specifically for the collection -- many of them come from well-known authors who are not modern (ie currently working, or even currently alive) high-fantasy authors: P G Wodehouse, C S Lewis, Michael Moorcock, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Angela Carter, etc. And Terry Pratchett, of course.

(One Amazon reviewer complained that the book did not contain a single flying wizard, to which I reply: you get Death! DEATH! What more could you want?)

It was also the sequel to a similar collection called "The Wizards of Odd" which also contained a very short Terry Pratchett story. I own that book, but I hadn't read anything in it in a very long while. The first story is the Pratchett story, the next is one by Lord Dunsany. Fun stuff.

Anyway I went ahead and ordered "The Flying Sorcerers" from Amazon for 50 cents plus shipping and handling. It won't have the cool Corgi cover, but then neither does my copy of "The Wizards of Odd".

I also ordered a copy of the Cordwainer Smith book that Jeff leant me for several years, and which I never read, and recently gave back. But I still want to read it one day.

And I ordered a copy of the movie "For Your Height Only", which is an imitation James Bondish film about an evil man trying to destroy the world, and the spy who stops him, and who also gets all the girls along the way. Oh, and the spy is a 3-foot-tall Filipino martial arts weapons-expert superspy in a Boogie Nights white polyester liesure suit. :D Badly dubbed into English, mind you.

(no subject)

Well the whole thing with my domain name was really really stupid. Because I didn't update my information with the people I was registered with, I didn't know that my registration was up. Because I didn't know it was up, I didn't find out until they de-listed me. Because I was de-listed, I couldn't just go to their web site and renew by clicking buttons and filling in information. They wanted me to have my bank wire their bank a bunch of money, or something, and then contact them with the reciept so they knew what to do. They couldn't do it the easy way because of regulations. Erf. Whatever. I figured if I waited long enough, I'd be able to reregister my domain again the old-fashioned way, unless some idiot bought it up. But why in the fricking world would anybody buy such a stupid domain name?

I got no idea, but someone did. So, now I need to figure out what my new domain name is going to be. maisonbellchan.com? Or maybe something more interesting?

Also, who should I register it with? Hopefully not with the idiots in Belgium or wherever that I had to deal with before.

Also, I had e-mail routed through my old domain that I'll never ever see now. And that will make things interesting when I go to change my LJ e-mail, for example, and I can't reply from the old e-mail address. Hrm.

(Well... okay, I changed it, it wasn't that hard. :p )

But on the whole I don't really care much what name my web site goes under. It's mostly just annoying that I'll have to reload everything, but that also gives me the opportunity to change things around, which I probably won't bother to do.

EDIT: MEH

Nobody offered any advise in the half hour after I posted, so I went ahead and registered the domain name postalvalhalla.com. It was a lot cheaper than what the Belgian idiots wanted to re-register my old domain. A LOT cheaper.

( mememememememe )