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Perpetuating a meme
Snagged from browngirl, who got it from rms_butterfly, who got it from catsittingstill. Slightly edited from the original ( Read more... ) -
I felt the earth move...
I'm fine.
I'm certifiably weird, but I'm fine.
(My thought process during the earthquake: "Hey, the building's shaking. I wonder if this is an earthquake. Yeah, this has to be an earthquake. This is AWESOME!!")
The library wasn't damaged, nor was my house when I got home, and the cats are both fine (though Maya's being a little clingy). -
QOTD
From Laura Lippman's blog:"...a lot of people want to be rewarded for honesty and I don’t think it works that way. Just because you’re willing to tell someone about your transgressions doesn’t mean you can be forgiven. If you are forgiven, that’s all about the good nature of the person you’ve hurt, not about you. It doesn’t really wipe the ( Read more... ) -
I'm shocked, I say!
So, this comprehensive study of children's literature has found that *gasp*, most books for children written in the twentieth century had male main characters. They characterize this finding as 'surprising ( Read more... ) -
Ringworld? Or Rapeworld?
So, I recently picked up Ringworld, by Larry Niven for the first time since 1998 (judging from the date on the bookmark I'd left in it). I didn't remember having read it before, and I've heard a lot of people I respect speak favorably of it, so I figured, "What the hell, right ( Read more... ) -
Umm... Hi.
I just realized how long it's been since I posted anything here. I've been reading, and commenting sometimes, but... yeah, not so much with the posting.
( And of course I'm jumping back in with a bunch of Thinky Thoughts. ) -
Sometimes...
... all you can do is sit back and watch the two trains barreling toward each other at top speed, because trying to stop either of them just means you get squashed. -
RIP
He was a tough ol' Byrd.Robert Byrd was an omnipresent figure in West Virginia politics for pretty much all of my life. As someone who grew up in the state, I have great appreciation for what he did for the state. As someone who has been a resident of other states for most of my adult life, I sometimes disapproved on his focus of bringing federal ( Read more... ) -
Little Shop of Horrors
She said, "My boy, I think someday
You'll find a way
To make your natural tendencies pay
You'll be a dentist
You have a talent for causin' things pain
Son, be a dentist
People will pay you to be inhumane
Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood
And teaching would suit you still less
Son, be a dentist
You'll be a success.
That song has been stuck ( Read more... )