The Washington Post conducted a poll of voters in Tuesday's election. The most relevant results to my previous post are that 13% of Brown voters approve of the health bill and 80% oppose. However, 48% of Brown voters think that Brown should work with the Democrats on changes to health care, while 50% think he should try to stop changes from ( Read more... )

In order for Scott Brown to win the Massachusetts Senate election, he had to get the votes of a significant number of people who had voted for Obama in the Presidential election in 2008. The question on my mind for the past couple of days has been why they voted for Brown ( Read more... )

The name of the director of the movies The Sixth Sense and The Last Airbender is M. Night Shyamalan. The correct pronunciation of his last name is approximately "SHAH-muh-lahn". The pronunciation is not "sh-mumble or whatever". This is true regardless of whether you like his movies. This is especially true if you are discussing the epic race-fail ( Read more... )

It has recently come to my attention that the user icon I'm using on this post may not be interpreted the way I intended it. The approximate emotion I was intending for this icon to express is

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Figured I should mention this for any librarian types who might not have seen this.

Boston University is having a conference on this Friday titled "Future of the Book". The speakers include James Tracy, headmaster at the Cushing Academy, and other interesting people.

cnoocy posted recently about the functioning of lightsabers in the Star Wars universe. I promptly got sidetracked by the issue of what constitutes the Star Wars canon. With some further thought, it occurs to me that the problem with defining the Star Wars canon can be reduced to a single question:

In the cantina scene in Star Wars, who shot first?

0. I am a former subscriber to Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine.

0. As a result, I am now a current subscriber to Maxim magazine.

0. I am too lazy to actually bother to cancel my subscription.

0. Every month, when a new issue of Maxim appears in my mailbox, I feel ashamed and embarrassed.

I figure people liveblog everything else, so why not reading a book?

( Reading this before reading Fire (and Graceling) is probably a really bad idea )

Chapter 21! Holy crap!

(A more substantive post will be following once I finish reading the book.)

Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist