The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002 according to Science Fiction Book Club.

I've seen this several places. I've bolded books I've read, and italicized books I started but didn't finish.

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Having arisen from the dead (at least on LJ), I am sucked in by the wikipedia meme ( Read more... )

So I got a new scale today, one that measures weight, body fat % and water %. I immediately had to figure out how many pounds of fat, water and muscle I had, as I am sure many people do ( Read more... )

Hmmm -- interesting e-mail tidbit from my conservative mother

"They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore."

nabed from Valkyrwench

Fairly accurate, I think.

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The vet says Heckle just has a hairball and gave him a shot and some sub-q fluids to help move it along. She says the fact that he is still eating and not throwing up anymore is evidence that it has moved some already. So it may not have even been necessary to take him to the vet at all, but I don't want to take chances with my baby. Thanks to ( Read more... )

So my elder cat baby, Heckle, started throwing up everything Saturday afternoon. ( Snipped for gross details )

It's that time of year again. My resolutions this year ( Read more... )

My stupid cat almost got himself into trouble. Tucker loves to open doors and apparently I didn't close the apartment door tight enough when I went out to the car. I saw the door ajar, looked outside. When I saw nothing, I closed it tight and did a cat cencus. Tucker didn't show up at once, but he hides sometimes. So I opened up a can of ( Read more... )

The good thing about taking vacation time with no place to go & nothing to do is that I don't need to worry about the insomnia. I can just go to sleep when I finally get sleepy. The downside is that this can lead to some weird sleep cycles. Right now, I seem to be running on about a 30 hour cycle -- stay awake for 24 hours and sleep for 6-8 ( Read more... )