Ungh. There can't possibly be only 15 Mairelon the Magician/Magician's Ward fics in existence on the entire internet, let alone six I deem bookmarkable. My public library can't possibly have only Magician's Ward on catalogue, let alone in the entire system. And two copies, at that.

Come on, people! You know Patricia C. Wrede? Surely? Dealing with ( Read more... )

(aka please don't kill me, here's art!)

Meanwhile, have a quick manip inspired by 'string'. The eclipse was capped by me at around 5 or 6 in the morning from the live Exploratorium webcast of the summer eclipse.


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Funny just how insanely cheerful I am compared to the nightmare that's been the last couple of weeks. Being on winter break for the next couple weeks really helps, especially with not having to wait for the bus in -25C weather twice a day.

Since I now have time to write/draw Christmas stories, this is a last call for present requests. Ask for a ( Read more... )

I'm probably writing short vignettes for Christmas presents, so people can opt in if they want one (and I won't feel too guilty about not giving anyone presents again). They can be any common genre, but you'll probably get the most quality out of general fiction (ie. about this life in general, classmates, etc. [courtesy of J's request]), fantasy, ( Read more... )

From what I can see, the blogosphere is abuzz. (I'm a few days off, yes.) The science programs and blogs have been abuzz for quite a while longer, though.
So, linkage from various web trawls. (Most of these pages have yet more links.)

The Large Hadron Collider (at CERN):
LHC homepage (a little intimidating)
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC- ( Read more... )

"If a familiar looking humanoid alien is travelling from point (23, 2/25) towards the south shore of the Thames River, defined by y= -1/4 x + 2 , what is the shortest distance he can travel? (Determine using non-Cartesian vector methods.) The alien's path is given by the vector (x y)= (23 2/25) + t (5 2). Show that he will meet with his human ( Read more... )

Meanwhile: alien planet in pastel (as done by my friend zhouchang).

My pastels, at midnight. She broke my white one. Grr, Mer. Grrr.