August 2007

Optical illusions, courtesy of Bill Nye the Science Guy. (via Neatorama)

After the death of Peeg (whom all of us mourned), there was something of a dearth of excessive sweetness at the Geek House on Server Drive, which, today, has been remedied by the addition of a mostly-white, male, red-eyed pig who may or may not be named “Toasty Marshmallow.” He reminds me of a Rosemary

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category

bissextile (by-SEKS-til) adjective Of or pertaining to the leap year or the extra day in the leap year. noun Leap year. [From Latin bisextilis annus (leap year), from Latin bissextus (February29: leap day), from bi- (two) + sextus (sixth), from the fact that thesixth day before the Calends of March (February 24) appeared twice everyleap

Kate over at Accidental Hedonist has a list of things she wishes she’d known at 20, now that she’s 40: Beer comes in flavors. Hollywood produces hype better than they produce entertainment. Most television news is entertainment disguised as “the public’s right to know.” That gets me thinking (although I’m not yet 40). So here

Check out DailyLit, which offers small chunks of big books in your inbox daily. “We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved.” Lots of the classics, naturally (they’re in the public domain),

I made leftover soup today, which was a couple of chicken carcasses with all the decent-sounding leftovers I could find in the fridge thrown in. I even cut off the rind on a romano-peccarino and threw it in (I’m so smart). My fridge is clean, my house smells wonderful, my cold bows down before the

Done with the first draft of the YA book. Woot!

After a long trip home, complicated by 1) a terrible sunburn (I greased Ray up but not myself), 2) a cold, 3) PMS, and 4) a sleepless night, but relieved by a) a terriffic husband and b) a good kid, I discovered that i) the house had not burned down, ii) the cat had not

We’re headed out tonight for South Dakota to pick up Ray and go to the Knippling family reunion.