One day before I go away on my first real vacation in a long time and I’m coming down with something. I feel quite ill already.
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Oct 13, 2007
I want to design a business/calling card for myself, but I have no idea where to start. I know about moo.com but what works best? I thought it was always a simple design. What information should I have on it? I never even had business cards when I worked for my old company. Any advice would be helpful.
Oct 10, 2007
I know I’ve been talking about television a lot lately, but I find the new season to be somewhat fascinating. I’m taking a step back in looking at them – what makes them work, what makes them not work. I find it instructive.
A new entry that I’ve started watching is Life on NBC. Life has the advantage of starring Damian Lewis, who I was impressed by as Winters from HBO’s Band of Brothers. The premise is that he was a cop who went to jail for 12 years (on a life sentence) only to be released when DNA evidence showed that he was innocent. His settlement involved a lot of money and the return of his badge. It’s a basic cop show, but the hook is that Lewis’ character, Charlie Crews, thinks differently from his time in jail. He’s a bit more animalistic in some ways, and he has coping mechanisms derived from his time in jail – be in the present moment, detach your feelings from the objects and people around you, etc. It makes his character quirky and, for me, extremely likable. And they manage to convey the effect of his incarceration fairly well. I’ve only seen two episodes, but there are moments when I’ve been watching and had to stop and just imagine what it would be like to be in prison for that long, for something that you did not do.
For me it always comes down to relationships. And the relationship between Crews and his partner is a decent one – strained, but also growing and the addition of Adam Arkin as Crews’ houseguest/financial advisor adds an element of humor to the show (I’ve liked Arkin since his time on Northern Exposure). But there is also a mystery element, something that also gets me, as Crews is basically trying to figure out the murder that he went to jail for, and figure out who set him up. This is unraveled in little bits and pieces, but it’s enough to keep the suspense simmering in the background, an element I expect to heat up as the season continues.
Out of all the television shows I’ve seen so far this season, I think Life is actually the best. It’s probably the show I would miss the most if it doesn’t succeed (or if I mess up the DVR).
Raining Fire – Out now!
Raining Fire, the third and final book in the Ben Gold series, was released on July 18, 2017. This book concludes the story begun in Falling Sky and Rising Tide. Publisher’s Weekly said, “Khanna wraps up his postapocalyptic adventure series with a capable page-turner…the airships, slavers, cannibalistic Ferals, and visceral action scenes make this a worthy culmination to the series.”
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Rising Tide -Out now!
Rising Tide, the sequel to Falling Sky, was released on October 6, 2015. Publisher's Weekly said, "Khanna crafts a terrifyingly dismal picture of the future, raising the stakes by gradually stripping Ben of friends and support while throwing him into increasingly dire situations. His worldbuilding remains solid and unsettling, and he never loses sight of the human element. The cliffhanger ending is sure to leave readers on the edges of their seats, panting for resolution."Falling Sky – Out now!
Falling Sky, my first novel, came out October 7, 2014 from Pyr. It's an adventure story set in a post-apocalyptic future with airships. Publisher's Weekly called it a "solid and memorable debut" while Library Journal gave it a starred review and named it Debut of the Month. For more information, please click here.