Two late-night stories. Ray: Once upon a time there was a Guinea pig who ate everyone on Earth.  Except his owner.  The Guinea pig was huge.  And one other person, who was hiding.  The person who was hiding came along and kicked the Guinea pig in the stomach, and the Guinea pig threw everyone up […]

Most of the half-way decent pictures from last week were from Physics day.  Here are the rest: La Lune, through the playhouse window. Glasses at the Warehouse. Mural at the Warehouse. Lee, somewhat amused at my taking his picture, at the Warehouse. The wine altar at the Warehouse? Ray’s picture selected for Black History Month

by Eoin Colfer. Lest you think that all I did this week was read (and cook), I listened to Conrad’s Fate and The Lost Colony as audiobooks at work during a marathon session at work of doing something that required little brain power and a lot of time.  I was about to go maaaaaaaad. Arty,

By Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. Mark from work loaned this to me; I read the first page and knew I’d like it, so I picked up a copy for myself before I’d even read it. The book falls into the same category as the Trenton Lee Stewart (Mysterious Benedict Society) books:  I like them

by Diana Wynne Jones. This is a YA, one of the Chrestomanci books. Having read so many DWJ books, upon finding out that Conrad is doomed to die within a year if he doesn’t kill someone that he was supposed to kill in his previous life, I said, “Who benefits?” and was consequently not surprised

by Mario Acevedo. Yes, there are nymphos in this book.  No, this is not a porn book.  It’s a book about a…wait.  Let me just quote the first paragraph for you:  “I don’t like what Operation Iraqi Freedom has done to me.  I went to the war a soldier.  I came back a vampire.” If

Blog: Restaurant Review: The Warehouse. http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2112 # Ouch, bad query day. Received 4 rejections: 12/16. # @MsAllieD And the day's not even over yet! in reply to MsAllieD # @ianthealy Oddly, your discouraging news makes me feel better. Thank you 🙂 in reply to ianthealy # Blog: Chicken fail, sort of: Pan-roasted chicken w/ olives.

by Cherie Priest. Talk about the right book at the right time:  a steampunk adventure with zombies.  There will never be a better time for this book.  Never.  All she had to do was make sure she wrote the book well enough not to shoot herself in the foot.  And it’s Cherie Priest, so you

We went to Physics Day at Ray’s school last Wednesday (I’m so lazy, I didn’t get the pictures downloaded until today). Everyone at the Dirt Cake table.  What dirt cake has to do with physics, I’ll never know. What?  You don’t know the recipe? Here’s Ray outside the star demonstration balloon, which we saw together

by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele. You know how people play MMORPGs too much? What if the whole world were like that, people playing their lives via android? Hm…there’s really only one way to go from there:  somebody decides it’s a bad idea and starts taking that away from other people, because, you know, it’s