On days when I am not being gloriously, unapologetically lazy, I try to learn something new, often via Google. Today I learned about prosthetic eyes (and then other facial bits, since I seemed to be on a roll). Did you know that they make prosthetic tongues? And that it's recommended you get two, one for speech and one for eating? I sure didn't ( Read more... )

I don't yet have pictures of the Big Fun (lo, I am lazy and did not bring my own camera), but I can distill a bit of the goodness down to bullet points.

• "Shirako" does not mean "tasty fried thing." It means, as my co-workers helpfully translated after I had eaten a piece, "fish man egg." This delightful incident technically happened pre-Big Fun, ( Read more... )

( Check out that percentage at the bottom. Fear not, fellow twenty-two-year-old females! I shall defend you! )

See vanity publisher. See vanity publisher claim to be a real, traditional publisher and make snotty remark about SF/fantasy authors as a whole. See members of SFWA test vanity publisher's claims of quality control by submitting hilariously awful round-robin novel, one chapter of which is written by a text-mangling program. See PublishAmerica offer ( Read more... )

It never ceases to amuse me that, while the geek concentration of JET is pretty high to begin with, the geek concentration of JETs in Shimokita is just unreal. When you have half the area JETs crammed into one house for ten solid hours of video and tabletop gaming, you're approaching critical levels of something. Sometimes I wonder if we ever freak ( Read more... )

Behold the skin printer.Is it bad that my first thought after finishing the article was about the future feasibility of a home version that would let kids literally create their imaginary friends ( Read more... )

Holiday spirit overcame me and caused me to register software that I use all the time and love dearly but had so far been pirating. I haven't actually gotten around to fixing the registration information yet or anything, but still. It was a magic moment ( Read more... )

Check 'em out, since I know your day isn't complete without space tomatoes and shrinking moleculesETA, to avoid clutter: I'm almost done with that book on Latin literature by Mr. "The Only Thing I Love More Than Cicero is Superfluous Comma Usage," and I'm going to forgive him everything for the phrase "after the fragments of Caesar." Context means ( Read more... )

Today I went out to buy necessary things, on the grounds that the weather will have probably progressed by next weekend from "cold with scattered snowflakes" to "I cannae feel me hands." I now have a new alarm clock with a real bell, like the actual ringing kind that vibrates wildly at the appointed time. The clock is also analogue with glow-in-the ( Read more... )

Today at work I meant to accomplish something between classes, but I mostly ended up cleaning up my hard drive and wanting to nap on my keyboard. I mucked around with Texturizer's macro system to come up with a quick way to take a column of text, tab over a bit on each line, and generate ROT-13ed versions of the original information. This took more ( Read more... )