Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.