Two bits of news:

1. As part of their celebration of National Poetry Month, Tor.com has reprinted Snowmelt. I still love this poem ( Read more... )

As some of you know, my body just really, but really, does not like gravity and has a tendency not to believe in its existence. So I am delighted to hear that at least one physicist doesn't believe in gravity either. It is, if I understand him correctly, more of an attempt by the universe to make things even more complicated, as if things weren't ( Read more... )

Alive, but still not feeling up to blogging much, although a weekend report will be forthcoming. In the meantime, I direct you to Scientific American's discussion of the domestication of the house cat, wherein the authors shockingly accuse cats of contributing "little to human survival" but are forced to admit that cats were probably domesticated ( Read more... )

So, for my birthday, tgregoryt got me something absolutely awesome: a good sized patio garden stand, where, at least in theory, you can grow hanging tomato vines bursting with tomato flavor, and then in the top section grow flowers, if you are the nice picture, herbs, if you're me, and exotic vegetables if you're him. ("Uh. Do we even like those?" I asked ( Read more... )

So despite feeling like utter crap over the last several days, I headed out today for a couple of hours to the Winter Garden Garden Fest, which featured orchids, bonsai, various vegetables, and a Genuine Florida Camel ( Read more... )

( The rest of the saga, or, how I became disabled in 2008, kinda dampening the year. Repetitive for some of you. )

Moving notes ( Read more... )

Woman in Pet Supermarket: "So I thought I'd given my dog AIDS, because she was losing weight, you know, but it turned out she was just pregnant."

Said woman afterwards bought an enormous bag of puppy food. I shall spare you the rest of the conversation.

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In news causing slightly less terror for the human race, athenakt rescued me from my ( Read more... )