Polyhedral, fractal, and other types of nerds with no clothes on! (Okay, okay, they’re computer generated. Let’s not start making cruelty-to-nerds accusations, after all; I am a strict nerdist myself.) (via Reality Carnival)

Ray and I went to the new movie yesterday. I’m not really in a mood to tell little stories about how our lives are going right now (my story brain is tied up in a book), which is a shame, because otherwise I would tell you about our walk to Chik-fil-A, or how Ray and

I sat down the other day and determined that I now know some things about writing. You know how I know I know these things? Because now I want to know something else. So here’s what I know: Pay attention. Don’t waste the reader’s time. The breath of the story is the conflict. Everything means

Ray found this.

Turning Away, by Dougie MacLean (with Kathy Mattea). Lee has this on one of his folk music samplers, so I know the song pretty well. There’s a secret code word for country music that doesn’t grate on the ears like a Microplane: bluegrass. There’s another secret code word: blues*. And a third one: folk. (But

Ray and I are going to go to Harry Potter tomorrow or die trying. And I may pick up some butterscotch syrup on the way home. Heck, why not? We might need some butterbeer.

Fight! (more Neatorama.)

Click here to play Mr. PotatoHead with people’s faces. (via Neatorama.)

triskaidekaphobia tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh, noun: A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th. –via Dictionary.com

A reference for the Nine Princes in Amber game: Brass Goggles website.