C is for cookie. That's good enough for me.

Okay, seriously, I am so sick of The Da Vinci Code. It's not even that great of a book, and it is not the groudbreaking new work of fiction everyone seems to think it is. That's not to say it isn't entertaining or a good light read, but some people seem to think it is really deep. It stole most of its ideas (the deep ones, that is) from Umberto ( Read more... )

We got a New Year's card in the mail today. I thought it was funny.

( See the card )

And they even turned out. But I don't usually screw up cookies (but, sometimes, yes)-- just cakes and bread and soufflées and anything that has to rise and involves an oven. But the cookies are *nummy* (to use a technical term). Walnut chocolate-chip für die Eltern (since I was using their oven, after all) and oatmeal chocolate-chip for myself ( Read more... )

[This is what happens when you drink too much egg nog].


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This is the funniest damn thing I have seen in a while. It's really well done. Watch the video, you won't be sorry. [In particular, pay attention to the song titles scrolling down the screen ( Read more... )

From Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
(because I still can't find Pride & Prejudice):

O joy, O new vertigo of indifference, O my platonic reader-writer racked by a most platonic insomnia, O wake of finnegan, O animal charming and benign. He doesn't help you think but he helps you because you have to think for him. A totally spiritual machine ( Read more... )

I am so excited-- tonight on Nova they are talking about the Mandelbrot set!! I realize that this makes me a huge, irredeemable nerd, but I really am excited!

And also, because I have a disgusting amount of knowledge of certain aspects of pop culture-- I will tell you that the M-set was featured in the cover art for Rush's 1998 Album Test for ( Read more... )

Hey, does anyone here have TIVO and/or know how it works? Is it worth it? My parents are constantly recording stuff on VCRs and fighting with them and each other and drowning in VHS tapes (they don't even have a DVD player yet, except for the one on the laptop I bought for my mother last year). It would be nice to be able to eliminate that ( Read more... )

Sure Hard to Hold sucked, but he did have some good albums. And Dr. Noah Drake? Get outta here. I'm going to have to start watching soaps again.

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