I'm planning to release several books at Baycon at the handouts table near registration. Come 'n get 'em! (But please, please do the bookcrossing.com thingy...none of the books I've released have been caught!)

Here's my bookcrossing "bookshelf".

Behind a cut tag because the URL has ( a naughty word in it )

( Cut tagged for your meme-squeam convenience. )

stollman and I found a great Mediterranean restaurant in San Mateo last night.

Caravans
147 E 3rd Ave
Persian and Mediterranean cuisine

The hummus was creamy and perfectly seasoned. The bread in the bread basket was sublime: a kind of flat bread with lovely flavor and texture, and some really flat bread that was sturdy and flexible but easily torn for ( Read more... )

Hot.

Ho-o-o-o-o-o-o-ot.

Too hot.

Damn hot.

HOT!

Thanks to epi_lj, we have a journal about riding a motorcycle through Chernobyl.

I've only had time to skim a little but it looks like it's just up my alley. (I have morbid curiosity about radiation poisoning.)

This touches me*, probably way more than it should. Link thanks to puffpastry.

*Not that way. Geez.

All the projects I see in craftgrrl that use old vinyl records by mutilating them (into bowls, handbags, etc) offend my sensibilities.

I really am a librarian--or maybe a preservationist--at heart.

There is a very sweet story about library cats in library_grrls (yes, the title's mono-gender, but I don't think the community is).

As a severly allergic person, the story disturbed me, but when there were comments that a "damn patron" complained about allergies "all the way to the board of commissioners," I had to respond.

A new community is on LJ: A Book a Month

Kind of self-explanatory. Go sign up if you wish!