For some reason I've been thinking a lot lately about one of the major messages from Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women and its sequels. The message is basically that you need to find a balance in life between work and play, and it's most clearly expressed in Chapter 11 - Experiments. Here's what I see as the money quote, from the very end of ( Read more... )

This is what I made ( Read more... )

There's a lot of awful stuff going on in the world right now. I'm fighting really hard to not get cynical about it.

This particular recording of Pete Seeger's song "Well May The World Go"
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My friend Katie & I shared a room for Lunacon this weekend ( Read more... )

Christina Hendricks, dressed in leather, posing with weapons.

To all the geek boys (and, I suspect, goodly chunks of the non-geek boys and the girls) on my flist: you're welcome. :)

If somebody were to film Girl Genius, who would you cast as which characters?

I'm sort of drawing a blank for everybody, but I might edit them in if I do come up with something.

Following up on this post, I've narrowed it down to three boxes that seem like they'd be good choices.

1. The Little Black Box
2. BlissMoBox
3. My Dream Sample BoxI also decided that rather than try to arrange in advance to split a subscription, I'll just sell anything I don't want to friends who do. To make it fair, anything I sell will be at ( Read more... )

PRI's The World explores the phenomenon of earworms. No real explanations, but it's still an interesting look.

As an example of what I was talking about in this post:This cocktail sounds kind of interesting ( Read more... )

Poll Crafty PollWhile I am curious about the answers, I mostly made this poll to test out whether something was possible in LJ's poll maker. Apparently it's not. If anyone knows of an online poll maker that would allow takers to choose any number between 1 and 365 on a scale question like the last one, please send me the link ( Read more... )