New Year, time to scrap the old To Read list and build a new one!

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Books read in 2016
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What I Learned This Quarter

by Rebecca, age 39

I learned the basics of programming in C# (ITC110), including but not limited to:

The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey ( Read more... )

The Funeral Consumers Alliance needs help

As I think anybody who reads this blog knows, I've been working on funeral rituals. What you may not know is that I'm also helping people plan their own funeral, and figure out the laws in their states so they can best plan. And in this area, the work of the Funeral Consumer Alliance has been absolutely ( Read more... )

Ghost Ship

On the night of December 2, a fire broke out in a warehouse-cum-art-studio space that was hosting a party at the time. Over a hundred people were there. As of the last I heard, the known death count had reached 30, with more than half the building left to search.

A friend of mine lost friends in that fire. I grieve with my fried.

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Saying No and Saying Yes

Catherynne Valente went back to Fairyland in the wake of the election.

I’m planning an ungendered hormone cycle tracking site with lots of possible symptoms, the ability to track very long, very short, and very irregular cycles, and more, for anybody who wants to track their hormone cycle. Currently planned features include a discreet calendar view, user-defined symptoms, a short-form journaling space, a food ( Read more... )

Women and Death

It’s a very common tradition, across the world and throughout history: women handle and care for dead bodies. It was true in the USA from colonial days on, and not until the Civil War did it begin to change, with the advent of arterial embalming (the injection of embalming materials into the arteries and veins) and the ( Read more... )