Today is the birthday of retsuko! It is also the publication birthday of her first published game, Choice of the Ninja, now out for Iphone, Ipad, Android, Amazon Kindle, and Android, as well as sample chapters free on the web!* I invite and encourage all of you to celebrate her birthday by buying her game today! First-day sales do a tremendous amount to ( Read more... )

For those wishing to show support, Jane Doe and her family have asked that you donate in her name to the local shelter for abused women and children or the local Sexual Assault Survival Center: http://createourownlight

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Have you ever wondered Who Is Glorfindel? No more...

By Vorrutyer in the Vorhartung Castle Gift Shop: http://archiveofourown.org/works/295981

The quality feels a little lower this year on some of my favorite genres, but there are some new ones that were just euphoric:

Discworld, "The Importance of Being Mostly Human," Susan and Vime http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2012/works/600401

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2012/works/607957 --Ariadne and the Minotaur ( Read more... )

I saw (and taught) a really incredible movie last week - and yet I'm not sure I can recommend it to a lot of you. It's the 2009 Spanish (but dubbed by original actors) film Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenabar, starring Rachel Weisz, about the 4th century CE female mathematician and astronomer Hypatia of Alexandria. More than Hypatia, though, it's ( Read more... )

Cuz it's a cold and snowy day - I want warm beverage recs - as specific as possible, please, not just "hot chocolate."

Also, this is in honor of the awesome Chocolate Chai Rooibos Tea that retsuko sent me in a care package to cheer me up. :)

So my rec is between that and City Bakery hot chocolate in NYC.

Sorry about the delay; yesterday was crazy-hectic. Also, I have a sore throat and lost my voice after 2.5 hours of lecturing. Trying to not talk today.

So, today, I'm asking for recommendations of experts - whose wisdom do you seek (ideally online, but whatever works) when you want to know reliable precise detailed info about a specific topic? ( ( Read more... )

Appropriate for wintertime and long shut-in days....

Mine is egg potato - baked potato (400 F, 1.25 hr, rolled in butter and salt) with a soft-boiled egg or two cracked on it and mashed in along with more butter and salt and maybe some shredded cheddar.

What's your favorite comfort food?

In honor of the Super Bowl - a favorite moment in sports, either played by you or something professional you remember still as somehow iconic or awesome.

For me, it would have to be Sarah Hughes' free skate at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, where she just gave the rare performance of her life at the moment it counted and jumped from 4th to 1st. One ( Read more... )