This week was my annual Summer Vacation/get the hell out of the office for at least one week a year/avoid office celebrations of my birthday (which really doesn't work anymore). The last few years, this has been a week to get stuff done around the house, work on various projects, read a lot and generally loaf. This year was a little different ( Read more... )

Lordy but when my muse is in a mood does she like to apply the whip ( Read more... )

So after burning through _Ghost Story_ (finished it Monday evening), I've been lazily drifting through an e-copy of John Scalzi's _The God Engines_ that I picked up for the Pad months ago. One of the interesting, to me at least, things about digital books is that the page count adjusts based on the font size (obviously) and so a book that I knew ( Read more... )

Let's say you have a collection of Magic: The Gathering cards. It's not a huge collection but it's taking up space and you haven't played in years. The cards are all from expansions that are no longer in tournament play (Revised through Alliances at the newest mostly) and they've all been used so the condition is reasonable but not collector level ( Read more... )

How quantum physicists do dessert. Also, a novel new legal theory for defense against false advertising claims.

http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/07/label-puzzler-original-recipe-and-new-flavor.html

Stride got me following Geek Feminist for a while. I haven't checked in recently unfortunately, so this morning I clicked over to see what I've been missing out on and found this post regarding Geekery and the Humanities. It's worth a read ( Read more... )

From a conversation earlier with GwenRose:

Her: this is why you have back up brains to remind you
Me: What would I do without backup? :)
Her: Have no other closets to search through and nothing to wear :P
Me: And with the current weather, that wouldn't do! It's no fun being a (lobotomized) hypothermic nudist. :P

A few things about driving in Colorado Springs ( Read more... )

Harry Dresden observed the following (Proven Guilty, Chpt 11 ( Read more... )

But I feel the need to note that I have safely arrived in Colorado Springs ( Read more... )