Yesterday, after working out, housework, a bit of WOW, some laundry, and a dinner of excellent sashimi, I went to the bookstore, ostensibly to pick out a gift, but primarily because I was in need of books ( Read more... )

A quick walk through the list of frequently-searched banned books ( Read more... )

jeriendhal came over last night and kept me company while I whipped up a batch of Brocollini, and we ate that and watched a bit of Robot Chicken. Then composerscott arrived and we all watched Girl In The Fireplace (one of the best episodes from the Doctor Who 2006 season, coming shortly to Sci Fi!), while I tidied up my bookshelves. Royce headed for home, and Scott and I ( Read more... )

I just boxed up seven boxes worth of books I want to get rid of. Included are college texts (I'm finally saying goodbye to my Norton Anthologies), individual Shakespeare plays, duplicate copies of books I have already in nicer versions, bargain books I've never read and probably never will even though they sounded neat, vapid supernatural "Young ( Read more... )

You know, I figured WICKED was just gimmicky, until I actually read the damned thing. And I loved it -- it appeals to me because of my love of fairy, I suppose, but I also loved the grounding in a believably real world, even if that world happened to be Oz ( Read more... )

Gakked from grayhawkfh

The top 20 geek novels as voted by Guardian readers.

(I've bolded those I've read.)
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert ( Read more... )

The gentle ready may recall that I spent half of yesterday engaged in "personal issues" (namely the violent removal from my system of all that had gone into it), and that I understandably opted to work from home. This was fraught with peril, as it happens, because once I logged in, I kept running into issues like "our development server cannot be ( Read more... )

I'm particularly enjoying this brief hiaitus between Otakon 2005 and Otakon 2006, which doesn't officially get underway until our elections in October. (Which is, oddly enough, a month in which nearly all my friends have birthdays, plus my little sister turns THIRTY. Yikes ( Read more... )