I totally like nectarines far more than peaches. This seems like a betrayal of the natural order of things. Aren't peaches supposed to be the end-all and be-all of pitted fruit?

Reaching episode 20 and experiencing the second season intro music of Death Note was almost as incongruous as Light's complete personality change after his mindwipe.

I was tasked with evaluating the feasibility of household emergency preparedness for this event ( Read more... )

I believe I did this once before.

1. Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
2. Turn to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"Kanta Bai was faintly amused."

Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra

I've been on Facebook for a week now (if you know me, find me there) and it is such a delirious feeling ( Read more... )

Eric says that our staid, relaxed little district, which in previous years I would have assumed was completely inhabited by elderly voters, had a one hour fifteen minute line for voting at poll opening tihs morning, and it looked just as long when he finally got through ( Read more... )

I feel like it's Christmas Eve. Tomorrow we get to unwrap a new president ( Read more... )

Does it bother anybody else that popular science articles about biology, and even some real refereed science journal articles, have to defensively state now that Evolution is Real at the beginning or end (unless the article's main thrust is to attack the ludicrous cavils of the ID folks, in which case the disclaimer would be redundant)? Wasn't ( Read more... )

Peter is a week shy of 17 months. That's almost a year and a half, for those not thinking in months (toddler-parents do, but I seem to recall the "X months" format glazing over my eyes before I had my own ( Read more... )

Cutest-ever thing for today:

After dinner, Peter was walking with his box (he can walk, now, but he can walk faster if he's pushing a box, and walking with his various boxes is his new totally favorite thing ever in the world), and I was standing at the sink cleaning up. From the other room I hear incredulous, delighted chuckling. I look over, ( Read more... )