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New Places
Finally, today, severing the last link from Kalama with one more run of "stuff" and the pick-up truck. It still feels somewhat like a dream, although the packing & cleaning leading up to the move were horrifying and painful--that part didn't feel anything like a dream. =)
I love living in this clean air, among these intelligent, artistic people. I ( Read more... ) -
Torn
I surprised myself by bursting into tears today as I was giving away some of my core French books today to the local library. These books were my companions, too. Tomorrow, the first fifth (?) of my English SF. I hope I'll have myself in hand a little better.
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Survivors
OMG, it's like playing "what if you were stranded on a desert island and could take only 3.5 boxes of science fiction"... =(
Who made the cut:
Samuel Delany, all of his stuff
Orson Scott Card, only some of it (Ender's Game series, Songmaster)
Octavia Butler, all of it
Pat Cadigan (I only have a couple)
AA Attanasio: Radix & Solis
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Culinary Question
Ok, what's the deal with the Chinese green beans that are withered*? How do they do that, and why do they taste so good? Ok, the last was rhetorical. Do they even have a name? "Withered" was the best I could come up with... I really want to know how to make them.
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April!!! It's APRIL!
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Global Alert Map
Cool linkage--pretty interesting stuff! Some of it's in Hungarian, but if you click on English the news blurbs (if there are any) at the bottom will be in English.
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Rapid Seattle Visit
We appear to be making a run into Seattle to have dinner at the Hot Dish in Ravenna on Sunday evening, about 5:30 pm or so. Wanna join us before we disappear into the Oregon wilderness?