Prelude

Welcome to Dice With the Universe!

Generally, I am going to put some thoughts from my life here. They will usually have to do with my translation work or with my writing. Your comments are welcome.

Thanks.

The title of the blog, for those interested, is a part of a paraphrase of Albert Einstein's words -- "God doesn't play dice with the universe." The words originally meant Einstein's scepticism about Quantum Physics (that gives a statistical chance of an event occurring), but I use this phrase as a general guideline to life. Things don't happen randomly. If we want to succeed we need to make it happen ourselves.

Welcome again. Enjoy your stay.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

News from the Bookshelf

I've recently had several additions to my bookshelf, which make my reading list extremely long.

First of all, did mention I love my e-reader? I do. It has a small problem with glare, and I would have liked it to ave the option to invert the black and white colors for reading in a poor light, but other than that... It is handy, easy to handle, just the right size etc.

Second, I had bought a couple of DVD's with an extended list of classics to read. I won't read them all, obviously, but even those I already downloaded to my e-reader make for a long but satisfying list.

I bought the electronic version of the "Warriors" volume (I had already read the "Mystery Knight" and Martin is excellent as always, but other stories are also very good so far), and I also bought the second volume of "Dreamsongs" (I already had the first one) and a couple of books by my friend Don Platt (check his site out).

All in all, this makes me very happy and busy with reading in the future.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Shameless Promotion Time

Well, I think it's about time for some self-promotion and self-aggrandizement :)

My story Something for Nothing had appeared in the 12/39 volume of Allegory magazine (here is a link to the story itself). I urge everyone to go to the site and read the story (and all the other stories, of course).

Have a great week