Comments | timeripple: Q: What's cuter than a puppy?

timeripple

Q: What's cuter than a puppy?

Mar 24, 2011 11:32

A: A puppy that tries to leap into your zipped hoodie, while you're wearing it, in a frantic joyful search for more cuddles. While you're already petting said puppy.One of our office-types at work brought her new puppy down to the sales floor for a few minutes, where it happily snuffled around and was petted and cooed at and cuddled. So soft! So ( Read more... )

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timeripple March 28 2011, 02:05:12 UTC

PUPPY!

satakieli March 27 2011, 15:59:07 UTC

Hah! I am amused by the coincidence. I'd just finished rereading the Vor Game when you posted this (actually, just finished reading Young Miles as a collection instead of individually for the first time). Indeed, I'd spent the evening before trying to muddle some of my thoughts down on paper. Most of them are rambling and tangential and poorly structured, being not intended for public consumption, but here's a snippet (after ranting about the easy-to-remember reasons I don't like it, aka the struttingly, uncomplicatedly evil villains ( ... )

timeripple March 28 2011, 02:21:41 UTC

I think I actually need to re-read the collection properly, as the joint staff rec came out of my gleefully foisting Bujold on my co-worker, with The Warrior's Apprentice as a starting point. And then we couldn't talk about anything else for weeks, and finally said, hey, we should rec something in time for Vericon. To my mind, Young Miles is the perfect Bujold starter kit, since The Warrior's Apprentice is pretty hard to find just by itself, and the Cordelia books are good but lack, well, Miles.

When she does it well, it's completely invisible, and it just feels like people, vivid and real, or realer than real. Yes to that, and everything else in that paragraph. When she's good, she's smokingly good. I haven't been as thrilled with the last two Vorkosigan books, and maybe it's just that I'm a more critical reader now than when I first read them, but things like nominal cultural appropriation really bothered me in Cryoburn. Grumpy critic is grumpy, but still wants more ( ... )

edajaramsmom March 28 2011, 02:23:25 UTC

How 'bout a cute little lab rat snuggling in your hoodie? Adrian just got a new pet. He posted pics on FB of his "hood rat." Very adorable... Now it needs a name. Got any ideas for a cute girlie rat? LOL

timeripple March 28 2011, 03:00:02 UTC

RATS ARE ALSO CUTE! I would totally let one snuggle in my hoodie. Awwww, adorable. :)