Still sick.  If anything, I'm sicker.  Yesterday, there was just a little bit of cough.  Today, there's full-fledged cough.  We are not amused.

There was no work for Lane yesterday, and since he's currently temping there (at the company that fired him twice), that means he was invited to take the day off.  Ugh.  That's two days this week he didn't ( Read more... )

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From Cracked.comWith most every classic novel comes some outlandish interpretations. Some people have wild fringe theories about Harry Potter as an allegory for young gay love and Lord of the Rings being about WWII and the atom bomb. But some of these laughably wrong interpretations stick. In fact, you were taught some of them in school ( Read more... )

Just finished reading the latest installment of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series, and am itching for the next one. (Especially since this one ends on a cliffhanger ( Read more... )

5. Sky Coyote (Kage Baker)

This is book 2 of The Company series. It was good. I like the concept of the series, though I will admit this second story didn't quite blow me away. (In the Garden of Iden was really quite good.) I'm reading #3 now, so we'll see if that supports my feelings in one direction or the other. In short, the concept is ( Read more... )

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I finished #3 in February sometime, and just forgot to post it. So now I'm catching up.

3. The New Weird (Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer, eds ( Read more... )

This AM I read the coolest character name I've ever read outside of the Douglas Adams cannon. I was reading this short story called, "Immolation," by Jeffrey Thomas, in the collection The New Weird (eds. Ann and Jeff Vandermeer), and the protagonist's name is -- are you sitting down? -- Magnesium Jones. Is that not an awesome name ( Read more... )

2. The Family Trade (Charles Stross)

As promised, I have started reading Stross. This is the first in his Merchant Princes series. I read it in only a couple of days, which, recent history considered, is a little amazing. I went to the library the next day to get the second book. All of that said, I still haven't decided whether or not I think ( Read more... )

Once again, inspired by the work of jlassen

I've been meaning to read Charles Stross for some time, and haven't gotten around to it. The above-mentioned blog colleague brought my attention to a blog post, "CT Stross on development economics," about Stross' Merchant Princes series. Besides the fact that Dick Cheney, known by all as Daddy Warbucks, is a ( Read more... )