I really hate accidentally posting a draft.

I want to read and review A Landscape With Dragons, but I can’t find it at any of my surrounding libraries, and it’s just not the type of book on which I’m willing to spend my extremely limited book budget. Not when there are so many books I want that I don’t have yet.

Oh the books I could read, the dreams I could dream!
The thoughts I could think ( Read more... )

I had the oddest thing happen to me.

I've had the idea for a story floating around for years and years. Longer than I really remember. It was a children's story, something like 13 Clocks or The Phantom Tollbooth, but also different. It involved a truly atrocious pun that got my wrist slapped by Mike when I told it to him. But the idea was fun. While ( Read more... )

I have been having PCR trouble for two weeks now. It's driving me crazy. One day, the assay worked, the next it didn't. I've been repeating them for weeks, sure it was the dNTPs, since we weren't using our usually brand, and that was the only reagent I'd changed.

The good news is that it wasn't my technique. The bad news is that the machine is ( Read more... )

I've often wondered where writers get ideas, but I've never asked because hearing their smart-ass answers just frustrates me even more. They can be more creative about where ideas come from than I ever thought was possible.

Fortunately, as a mother, I have at least one idea running about in the wild. (Well, he's sleeping right now, permitting me ( Read more... )

GeekBaby was Link for Halloween!  Cute geeky baby pictures on the other end of the link.

(Crossposted from geeklady.wordpress.com. I do this when I have time. Apologies for length, I can't figure out how to make cuts work.)

My worst fear is that I will go blind ( Read more... )