I guess now is as good a time as any to mention, for all you eljay peeps, that I have moved over to Dreamwidth for now. This move will probably be a moot point within the next few years, however, as ACTA picks up steam and SHUT UP & BLOW ME come back to Congress shrieking and throwing tantrums until they get ratified >8|

Just yesterday I was ( Read more... )

Do I spend my totally free day A) ravenously tearing through A Game of Thrones so that I can dive muzzle-first into A Clash of Kings, which the boycreature just bought for me before he had to leave for his motherland to renew his passport (SADFACE :c We are a bit cramped in this room, yes, but it feels empty without him);
2) oggling all the episodes ( Read more... )

This review has been a long time coming - the boycreature loaned me his big burly three-books-in-one-volume GIANT of a sci-fi classic sometime I think in December. Finished it last week. That is so far removed from my usual reading speed I feel a bit sick with myself for admitting it, but I suppose I WAS frantically job-hunting and also caught up ( Read more... )

How has it taken Weird Al this long to write a children's book? Oh right, the musical career and TV shows and whatnot. Okay then c: I want copies of both book and reading tracks ( Read more... )

During a DVD-swaparound in French sem, a number of people reported faulty copies of one movie or another, prompting one classmate to remark that DVD movies only work well for about 25 years or so.

A little digging on the webbertubes came up with this figure for DVD-RWs, DVD+RWs, and DVD-RAMs - possibly DVD-ROMs as well, depending on environmental ( Read more... )

Colin Tudge (who incidentally has got to have the most adorable name of just about any author I've ever read) is utterly fascinated by trees. He knows tons about them, but more importantly he is effective at communicating not just the scope of his knowledge but the vast expanse of things he and other very knowledgeable people have absolutely no ( Read more... )

If I were an even marginally less attentive reader, I would say Steve Jones' genetic opera is only somewhat disingenuous. As it stands, I'm now convinced he must have had several spats with faculty from the department that is soon to be my home base. And I do hope he'll be teaching in the fall, because I will gladly shove a bio major in front of ( Read more... )

Made my savings goal for this month! It's payday again, and over the last month I saved the usual amount of yens to bundle back into dolla-dolla-billz for ze American bank account, plus 40,000 for the service trip. Go me ~/o ( Read more... )

First week of classes, done. First lesson-planning session for 1st-year classes . . . awkward beginning, but concluded civilly and even optimistically. I always kind of want to shake Tomo-sensei (this is a pseudonym) when we first start to plan a lesson, because she is so very hesitant to suggest anything and yet she seems to have very specific ( Read more... )