Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans!I decided to leave the alien fighting to the professionals, but I wore a red shirt today (haha, not dead yet!) and celebrated my freedom by eating much delicious grilled food and shortcake and reading Captain America #1 for the first time. *\o/* In Captain America #1, Steve is injected with the serum, ( Read more... )

So I now have a LibraryThing! Right now, it's just the books I have up in Bellingham (which is, um, more than I thought), but you can go and check that out and add me if you have one and stuff. YAY BOOKS. :D

And this is my signal boosting on sophie_448's post on her recent experience with Zazzle and copyright infringement claims. It's not even about this ( Read more... )

There's a story I heard a long time ago about a mouse or maybe a rat or ant or other small creature who saves a tied-up lion's or a man's or something like that's life by bringing him/it small amounts of water and food. The lion/man/whatever it is thinks that the amounts of water and food the mouse/ant can carry are too small to be of any good, but ( Read more... )

These meme seems to be going around again--stumbled across it while coding the spnnewsletter (which is very late tonight due to many, many distractions):

1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

Oh, and here's some food for thought, while I'm on the subject of writing. Do you guys notice that you tend to have the same themes and ideas running through your various works, or is every story a completely new adventure, or some of both ( Read more... )

So I am just not going to say much about all of this. Personally, I'm kind of skeeved out by all sides of it, think it is uncool that it happened, and also had no idea that any of this was going down while I was there. So... yeah. :\ clex_monkie89 just made an excellent post about it that I helped draft, though, so I WILL link you to hers and I hope that we can ( Read more... )

So I started writing this post earlier today and then got THOROUGHLY sidetracked. *facepalm* For the record, I have now acquired this, thanks to my B&N gift card:

( I wouldn't kick #1 out of bed )

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Well, crap. Apparently now I have carpal tunnel AND the heartburn/chest pain that started last night and did not go away. Yay for the human body!

I really, really hope these symptoms are not indicative of a Mysterious Disease™. Because that would be teh suck.

Oh well, I'm not dying yet, so have a meme:


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