Yep, you read that right. Surprise Dalek cake, even. Home-made rose-petal-jam flavored Dalek cake. I have the most awesome friends ever!!!

Behold the evidence:


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I've mentioned before that there are certain things that I can grow very well in my garden. Other things I try to grow I fail at fairly consistently ( Read more... )

My friend Andrew (and his lovely wife) have a website. Every so often Andrew will find and post about things that are inherently absurd/terrifying/WTF, such as Food Frights and really what-were-they-thinking? merchandising.

Well, Andrew, in the spirit of your infamous Oreo Barbie post, let me introduce you to...


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Naturally enough, I was sleeted on walking to the bus yesterday, and snowed on today. :-D ( Read more... )

A strange thing to celebrate, perhaps, but definitely a topic well worth discussion, because e-piracy is a real problem.

A little background: Author Chuck Wendig wrote a post on his blog about piracy, declared Feb. 6th to be International Please Don't Pirate My Book Day, and invited others to write, blog, or post on this theme today ( Read more... )

Rest well, Grandma, and be happy again with Grandpa. You had an amazing life, and I was lucky to be part of it for so many years.

In the closing days of 2012, I found one of my holy grails of media.

We all have them, although in this era of online content, they're increasingly rare. (Ironically, this is a good thing.) The book, album, or other media object that is really important to you, but for whatever reason, isn't available as some kind of .mp3 download, ebook, online ( Read more... )

Well hello November. How did you get here so quickly? Nonetheless, it's nice to see you. In fact, I'm glad you stopped by, because we need to have a little chat.

You see, November, normally at this time I would have the welcome mat out for your NaNoWriMo luggage. I would have the plot bunnies all dusted, the desk stocked with metaphorical writing ( Read more... )

Apparently very well indeed, judging by the reactions of my nephew J and niece C. My parents brought a bag of peas from my garden when they went down to visit. And oh, the carnage:


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Summer is here, and summer is flying by at something approximating hypersonic speeds. It seems like March was just yesterday, and yet here we are in August.

Garden news:

• Once again it's been a bumper crop year for peas. However, this year, for the very first time EVER, I'm having a bit of trouble with pests. A few of the peas have had teensy-tiny ( Read more... )