Night Train to Rigel, by Timothy Zahn
Mysteries galore
Better than Zahn's Star Wars
Recommend highly

I was only watching the play-by-play update for the BCS title game last night (well, this morning), and it was still a drubbing. I'm kinda glad -- the BCS one-off is starting to wear on me, for reasons exemplified by this season. (Plus it means that USC is still the only school to win a Heisman trophy and a BCS title in the same year ( Read more... )

The Protector's War, S.M. Stirling

Usual Stirling
Highly detailed, lots of blood
Fewer lesbians

Ganked from samueljl. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am very, very:

Your results:
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
90%
Hulk
80%
Superman
70%
Supergirl
53%
The Flash
50%
Robin
45%
Green Lantern
30%
Batman
30%
Catwoman
25%
Wonder Woman
18%
Iron Man
10%

You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.


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Hell to Pay, Simon R. Green (Nightside 7)
Still kicking much ass
John Taylor finds a lost girl,
Ultraviolence

End of the Beginning, Harry Turtledove (Days of Infamy 2)
If you like his stuff
This is classic Turtledove
But seems quite pointless

The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks (The Fourth Realm 1)
Do you remember
The Celestine ProphecyThis one has ( Read more... )

Once again, I have navigated the perilous international air travel system successfully. My reward? They want to take away my room and move me to a different building. Nobs.

So Scooter (so sayeth the voters) is more or less fully potty trained at this point, but she does have the occasional accident. Her reward system is that she gets a Hershey's Kiss for dinner if she has no accidents all day. Coincidentally, my wife is on a diet and therefore takes any excuse not to have dessert. Ergo, the following conversation ( Read more... )

My parents got Rory the Tickle Me Elmo Extreme or whatever the heck "TMX" stands for. And then my aunt and uncle got her a "musical book" featuring Elmo and The Count with various reworded nursery rhymes, each triggered by a simple button press. Apparently, everyone on the Stankow side hates my wife a lot.

But hey, new pics.

So I have to get all new blue jeans now. Apparently, at some point over the last nine months, I've gone from a 32x32 to a 34x32. And I'm up to 187 pounds, which isn't absurdly over where I usually am, but geez. I'm used to being right on the edge of "overweight" according to the BMI calculators, but now I'm a good percent and a half over the ( Read more... )

Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota is, as I type this, in critical condition following surgery to repair a brain hemorrhage. I've never met him nor heard of him before the last day or so, but I wish him and his family the best ( Read more... )