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bay area traffic question
quick question: can anyone tell me how bad traffic usually is on a weekday (Friday) morning, on 101S from the Mission down to South San Francisco?
(trying to estimate driving time to get from fyfer's to an MCAT test center at 6:30-7am. google maps claims it's ~8.5 miles, and 15 minutes.) -
[booklog 2007]
19. & 20. Control of Nature and Table of Contents, John McPhee. both excellent, and deserving of the far more thorough write-up that i'm not going to do right now.
21. The Big Over Easy, Jasper Fforde. wasn't as impressed by this one as by his other books, but it was a fun light read anyhow.
22. The Revenge of Hothead Paisan, Diane DiMassa. this ( Read more... ) -
[booklog 2007]
i feel like i've misplaced some books, that i must've done more reading than this. mostly, though, i think i haven't been reading because i feel like if i've got time to read books for pleasure, i should be studying.
in any case, these were in the stack of recently-read books:
11. Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee. fantastic book. ( Read more... ) -
just one small moment
i'm at home, typing with tea and toast in front of the big windows, and outside everything is soaking in a deep rose light. the holly-berries, the red motorbike, the fallen petals of the little tree-shaped camellia across the street, they all glow like props on a theater stage. and the bare tips of the treebranches are a deep and almost violent red ( Read more... ) -
[booklog 2007]
9. & 10. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernieres. intricate, funny novels set somewhere in South America; stories of people and villages and families, with a dash of santeria and magical-realism thrown in for good measure. and now i want to read everything else he's written, except that longueur just lent ( Read more... ) -
...Bueller?
This journal of mine is due for some poking-at soon. The bits about why and how I'm using it are mine to figure out, but as it's to some extent functioning as a broadcast medium, it would be interesting to know who's reading it, and why. (Also, it's been feeling kinda crickets-and-tumbleweeds lately, and that makes me wonder about these things ( Read more... ) -
two loaves of simple bread
mostly for my own notes. makes two fair-sized loaves of tasty bread.
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[booklog 2007]
some of these are from the end of 2006, but i stopped keeping track, so i'm tacking the ones that i remember on here.
1. Falling Free, Lois McMaster Bujold. i have a vague memory of writing this one up already, but couldn't find the entry, so here you go. good sci-fi, and lots of badass industrial metalworking in space.
2. A Deepness in the Sky3 ( Read more... ) -
penguin notes
courtesy of mrcairo: did you know that it was Penguin Awareness Day two days ago? i bet you didn't! and, in case you missed it and somehow managed to not spend the day in a tux wearing funny plumage and doing little penguin-dances, April 25th is World Penguin Day ( Read more... ) -
bio-geek amusement
a footnote to the vertebrate limb development chapter, in the NCBI online edition of S. Gilbert's Developmental Biology text ( Read more... )