4-yo daughter: Daddy, are mad scientists good guys or bad guys?
Me: What do you think?
Daughter: I think they are good guys. And they are mad because they are mad at the bad guys.
Me: That's exactly right.

Me (entering room): Good morning! How did you sleep?
3-yo daughter: Not good.
Me: Why not?
Daughter: I was awake all night, trying to be invisible. And a dinosaur.

3-yo daughter: I have a hop-this.
Me: What?
Daughter: I have a hop-this! I am going to test it.
Me: Oh, you have a hypothesis!. What's your hypothesis?
Daughter: Some sharks are nice. Some sharks are not nice.
Me: How will you test your hypothesis?
Daughter: (Thinks.) I will use my whole family.

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Welcome to LJ, susantimberlake!

"It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it" (Avot 2:21)

Beautiful writing advice.

http://www.robmacdougall.org/blog/2010/09/this-sentence-has-five-words

if I ever write one and sell it.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/1009/venusmoon_pascual_big.jpg

Updated: here's the explanatory text:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

I must have heard the Grateful Dead song "Dire Wolf" a thousand times. How did I miss that the first line indicates that it takes place in Fenario? I am well and truly staggered.

1. So it probably stems from an older folk song, the Bonnie Lass of Fenario.
2. I assume Brust took the name from this, not directly from an older source.

Using "Online Customer Support Chat" with my bank tonight ( Read more... )