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BIG squee!
I just found out that (Market) is buying (Story)! I don't want to post the details right now, lest I curse it before any actual paperwork has been signed, but I will say that (Story) is very dear to my heart. I'm jumping-up-and-down-and-squeeing kind of thrilled that it's found a home with (Market ( Read more... ) -
books -- in need of recommendations!
So I somehow got roped into the WiSE (Women in Science and Engineering) planning committee, and now I'm in charge of leading a women in science fiction book club... which means I need books to read! Ideally, the books should ( Read more... ) -
back from BotaniCon
I've escaped unscathed from Mormonland, though the conference itself reduced my brain to a semi-solid consistency not unlike jello. Once I'm functional again, I'll get to play around with all the fun new ideas I collected, and possibly gasp in horror at the grandiose proposals I put forth. I may have promised Caz that I would save the world with a ( Read more... ) -
books: Lake and Doctorow
I can't spend one more minute thinking about non-metric multidimensional scaling, so... books!
Mainspring by Jay Lake ( Read more... ) -
no, I won't be skiing
In a few hours, I'm off to Snowbird, Utah for a week at BontaniCon 2009 (also known as the BSA/MSA joint annual conference). I think they like to host conferences in beautiful parts of the country just so we can feel extra-depressed about spending all day in an air-conditioned conference room talking about bioinformatics techniques ( Read more... ) -
I still can't believe he said that
On this afternoon's edition of Things Gwen Despises: friends who turn out to be closet homophobes ( Read more... ) -
why my brain should have an off switch
Sometimes, late at night, I start thinking about how small atoms are, and how much space there is between them in most molecules, and how very small subatomic particles are, and how they really only take up a minuscule fraction of the available space. Then I start looking at things around me, things that look solid, feel very reliably solid, and I ( Read more... ) -
commencing week 2 of physical therapy
Nobody told me this was going to be hard.
Okay, that's a lie. My I Liq Chuan instructor told me it was going to be hard. And take months. And hurt like a bitch. All of which turns out to be true. But the rotator cuff is such a tiny little muscle, it shouldn't be allowed to make so much trouble.
Can't I just replace it with a cybernetic left arm? -
why I heart Dan Savage
Regarding the oppression of drug use in our society:
gay is like Cats (“now and forever”), while heroin is like Twitter (fun at first, sure, but you’ll regret it one day). -
Face it -- I'm your statistically significant other
This xkcd pretty much sums up my personal life for the past semester. Except that I need to use more graphs ( Read more... )