The Four Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality, Richard Panek ( Read more... )

There's no real reason why I haven't posted in eight months. Just busy working and raising cats.

Coco and Callie are grown-up cats now. They are very good cats and most nights they sleep on my bed, the better to wake me up when they're hungry. Their archenemy is Professor Laserdot.

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An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser.

Shallow, weak-willed non-entity driven to commit horrible crime. An American Crime and Punishment with less philosophy and more money-grubbing (so, really, an American Crime and Punishment). Too long; overbearing narration tells you exactly what each character is thinking even when this is very obvious. ( Read more... )

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers ( Read more... )

Reading the Angel and Faith comic....Angel is obsessed with bringing back one of his victims (I think you all know who, but I won't spoil it), and Faith keeps telling him it's a bad idea, but he's just like "Argh guilt recrimination self-hatred marg", and I just have to wonder how he's going to fuck it up. ("Vampire causes nuclear war, film at 11 ( Read more... )

Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett ( Read more... )

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Snuff, Terry Pratchett ( Read more... )

I just got the first two Buffy Season Nine comics, which were alright. They make frequent mention of whatever the hell happened at the end of Season Eight, and I don't know what that is, except that it's Angel's fault somehow ( Read more... )

Thucydides, History of the Pelopennesian War, trans. Richard Crawley, revised by Donald Lateiner ( Read more... )