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The DiMortuiSunt Book Giveaway!
I get a lot of books. Way too many books. I don’t really have room for all the books I get. I feel bad taking them to used bookstores (and that business model isn’t doing that great anyway.) The local library doesn’t want to take books from me anymore and it feels downright criminal to toss them into the recycle bin.
What am I going to do with all these books?
Then I remember I had this blog. This blog that people occasionally read, if they are good people they then mention it to their friends who also read it. I could give the books away to these people!
So this is how it’s going to work: every Friday in April I will post a picture of a book as well as a short book review of it. Anyone who comments on the post will be put in a random drawing for the book to be held the following Friday when the next book becomes available.
Seeing as I only have maybe 30-60 people who view this blog there is a reasonable chance that you just might win a book. If this is successful (wholly to be determined by me) than I’ll do it every month or so.
PS – don’t be a dick and require a bunch of legalese gobbley-gook or this will go away and you’ll never get your book!
PPS – I’ll pay shipping.
Welcome to the updated Di Mortui Sunt
I’m still reorganizing, tweaking, and adjusting but you’re (mostly) looking at the new Di Mortui Sunt. I’ve cut out a lot of the extraneous tabs, consolidated the remaining, and added one more. I still need to add my own art up the header, a small paragraph to the right describing the blog, as well as a find focal point that has been lacking (alternatively, I could always create another blog to be focused and this one can remain my own musing grounds.)
I believe the best way to make this work for me would be to create a new site to explore and promote more fully my work in the “Creativity” section. If you’re interested in that I’ll make sure to put a link to it here when it is ready.
So, things are happening. I’m starting new projects and continuing with old ones. I hope you enjoy the changes. Here is to new beginnings.
What is Di Mortui Sunt all About?
Di Mortui Sunt is my personal blog and it shows, the things I write about here are varied and mostly unrelated. In an attempt to perhaps focus the blog on a specific topic and to satisfy my own curiosity I visited Wordle and had a Word Cloud made of my blog, (it’s that image up there, at the top. The one that looks like a large grouping, or cloud, of words) two things happened as a result of this: I found a really fun new font, coolvetica, that I will be using in documents; and two, that I write mostly about games.
The question is do I want Di Mortui Sunt to be a blog about videogaming? As much fun as that sounds I don’t see myself contributing much to the discussion, when there are really excellent gaming blogs out there (Gamespite, Dubious Quality, Gamasutra, oh, and my own Gamestooge to name only a few) who are taking the hobby seriously. Okay, so gaming isn’t what this site is about, what about writing? I’ve posted my writing here and I’ve certainly talked about it here. Since, writing is important, as is the written word, I think it’s safe to say that they are apart of what Di Mortui Sunt is. I’ve talked about government here as well and I’ll continue to do so, as I’m involved in it at a professional level and I won’t be able to get around it
I think that I’d like to see Di Mortui Sunt have more focus. I’m writing for myself here, but I’d like to have what I say be of some use to those who read it, even if they take nothing more from it but a smile. Since, I’m lacking inspiration now, besides making this a blog about the lack of Gods, (the title up there says “the Gods are dead” in Latin) and everyone know we have a overabundance of atheist blogs and sites. I’ll ask you dear reader what you think? Perhaps a blog about being spiritual without being religious? Or attempted at living authentically in an inauthentic culture? Or maybe I should just rant here about the black helicopters, Glenn Beck and Area 51? Let me know in the comments.
I’m going to keep writing about games and other things but I think I’ll find a new place to do so.
EDIT: Light colors on a white background doesn’t work very well does it, click for the full-sized image and things will be easier to read
EDIT: I re-named the blog on 8/1/11 to False(B)logic