Checked out "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett, on audiobook, because I've decided to give the Discworld books another try. The first three or four in the series I didn't get much out of, because of the issues I sometimes have translating words into pictures in my head. (Works fine the other way around, though.) I had the same problem with the ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lily had me meet her at Powell's. I got The Crystal Bible 2, normally $21, for $11.50 because somebody had written in it (still readable). I also got "Pocket Apocalypse" by Seanan McGuire!

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I had a dream last night featuring uplifted (to human-level sapience) gorillas. But they were incomplete; their larynx was more complex than wild gorillas, but not complex enough to manage English. They had a language of grunts and other vaguely animal noises, and that was pretty cool ( Read more... )

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I've always preferred to go about barefoot if I can, even playing outside barefoot whenever feasable, in my younger days. (Stopped for a long time after stepping on a nail once when we lived in the country.) But I never had a problem with socks and shoes most of the time; though one good thing about summer is that I get to wear flip-flops, which is ( Read more... )

Been reading the Behemoth series by Peter Watts. One of the things they keep mentioning in passing are "eyephones," a kind of stupid (pre-iPhone) name for the eye version of earphones. I find myself wanting something like this; it gets annoying trying to look at certain things and being afraid of the roommate walking in at any time (because the ( Read more... )

"Because it’s suicide, that’s why!” Alyx cried. “Jeez, I can’t believe I have to explain it to you! Wouldn’t you stop me from trying to kill myself?”

"That depends."

“Depends?”

"On if you really wanted to, or you were just trying to win an argument."

"I’m serious."Yeah. I can see that." Clarke sighed. "If you really wanted to kill yourself, I’d ( Read more... )

New woman at the Scrabble meetup last night had a brand-new book by David Brin that I hadn't known was out. David Brin is still my favorite author; I've read a large percentage of his writings; all of his novels, except for this new one and that one he did with Gregory Benford ( Read more... )

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* The Bible. Got through maybe half of Genesis and gave up. Reason: Long, boring, stupid, with crappy language style ( Read more... )