Dear Mr. President-Elect,

Please don't fuck this up.

Love,
Me

P.S. Please fix health care before I die from dehydration because I've been crying since Ohio.

I mean, leaving aside Anathem's timeline and glossary and appendixes of side proofs (with diagrams), there are just lovely little bits, always, like ( Read more... )

For those concerned, Mavis the porch spider has, after a brief vacation in the auxiliary spider condos (i.e., my web-covered bushes), has taken to building her webs on the far side of the stair railings. Human-arachnid coexistence continues peacefully.

For now...

Yesterday, I had to knock the web away from the steps in order to get down them without being covered in goo.

This morning, I noticed that she (he?) had cleverly re-built on only half of the steps.

( aiee! )

So I watched this week's Project Runway, and then made dinner, and this is what came to me while chopping lettuce ( Read more... )

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

...good to know.

Three Days to Never, Tim Powers
Dream Hunter, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acheron, Sherrilyn Kenyon

...Yeah, that looks kind of sad. But consider that I'm most of the way through two other books, including Sophie's World, which needs time to digest along the way. Also, Ash was about as long as a late Harry Potter and was a bit of a tough slog through the ( Read more... )

I've been going to the same local bookstore for over 20 years. (Scary!) Anyway, they're not as big as the chains, but I can usually find what I'm looking for and I get the smugness of supporting a local business. I'm trying to cut down on how many books I buy, limiting myself to new releases and books for travel, so even more, I'm trying to go ( Read more... )

Without the talk beforehand, and the exact same race, I think the reaction would have been more "Woo! But hey, good job other dudes, we almost lost it," rather than what I actually yelled at my TV, which was "Suck it, France ( Read more... )

Um...I didn't really keep track this month. I know there was some more Katie Mac in there. But the two important things were

Jhegaala, Steven Brust
Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection, Scott McCloud

both of which are most excellent.