Photographs of a planet
I cannot emphasize how cool HiRISE stuff is or how amazing the photographs of Mars are; it makes me wonder how it would feel to step onto another planet; to see the sun and the stars in a completely different way; to live without our moon. I read a lot of fantasy/science fiction and I [...]
New Books!
Those of you who know me, know that I love books, get obsessed with books, overwhelmed with books, spend every last penny getting the latest from my favorite author…this is what led me to library school (who knew you couldn’t read books at work when you worked at a library? I was robbed, people!). Anyway, [...]
I laughed for about five minutes
I really did laugh that long — I couldn’t stop, and ended up wheezing (I’ve had bronchitis the last few weeks). Anyway, while I don’t always get Marti’s geek comics, this one did hit me just right. The mouseover refers to the newest book by Neal Stephenson (sorry, now there should actually be a mouseover!).
I think I’m keeping it
I think I’ve settled on this new theme, called Amazing Grace (I’m not sure why, exactly). I loved another one, but it was really buggy and I have too much content now to deal with issues like drop-downs that don’t work and such. I have 368 posts, 1 page, 17 drafts contained with 16 categories [...]
Ben’s first endorsement
I picked up this idea for a post because it’s so darn Japanese — I mean, why haven’t we had DVD kiosks before now? Basically they are DVD vending machines (jidouhanbaiki) in supermarkets or wherever. Pretty soon we’ll see them at rest stops where you can grab a soda, pick up a DVD [...]