Amazon Shorts, etc.

I just found out about the coolest thing today: Amazon Shorts. It's kinda like iTunes, but cheaper, and without all the lame DRM. You can download short works, fiction and non-fiction, from well-known and not so well-known authors. It's cheep too, a mere 50 cents.

Of course, I have already succumbed to the usual librarian pitfall, and have about five books in the que waiting to be read, starting with the very latest Robert Jordan. Very geeky of me, I know, but Sci-Fi / Fantasy purchasing is one of my responsibilities at the moment, so really being a Sci-Fi / Fantasy nerd is necessary.

That reminds me, check what Ernest Cline had to say about other nerd necessities:

I want porno movies that are made with guys like me in mind:
Guys who know that the sexiest thing in the world
is a woman who is smarter than you are.

You can have the whole cheerleading squad,
I want the girl in the tweed skirt and the horn-rimmed glasses:
Betty Finnebowski, the valedictorian.
Oh yes.
First I want to copy her Trig homework,
and then I want to make mad, passionate love to her
for hours and hours
until she reluctantly asks if we can stop
because she doesn't want to miss Battlestar Galactica.
Suma cum laude, baby!
That is what I call erotic...

In my kind of porno movies the girls wouldn't even have to get naked.
They'd just take the guys down to the rec room and
beat them repeatedly at chess
and then talk to them for hours about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
or the underlying social metaphors in the Aliens movies.

Once again, it's funny because it's true.