There is the science of cooking…and then there are the cooking metaphors of science. Half-Life: The time required to convert one half of a reactant to product. The term is commonly applied to radioactive decay, where the reactant is the parent isotope and the product is a daughter isotope. (About.com) Half-Life of Baked Goods: The […]
I am a 2nd level Chaotic Neutral Elvish Wizard. Hm…sounds about right.
By Straight No Chaser. –These guys are nuts. Just plain nuts.
Like Sigur Ros, only not. Dreamy and open ambient not-quite-techno. Wunden gibt es immer wieder.
Thief, Liar, Gentleman? By Eleanor Updale. A YA book, first in a series. I liked it; I’ll be reading at least the next book. The premise was interesting–a petty thief leaves prison and begins a dual life, that of criminal and gentleman. But the character makes too many mistakes for me to consider him a
Ray and I put together a gingerbread-house kit tonight. It was a good idea — whenever I make gingerbread, some kind of primal instinct says, “KILL KILL KILL.”* In short, it doesn’t last very long. But the gingerbread in the kit was already stale, hard, and didn’t smell like gingerbread at all. Perfect. For building
Terry Pratchett has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimers. –I’m not going to eulogize here. As he notes in his letter, he’s not dead yet. But MAAAAAN, has the guy ever been a provider of hope and good times curled up on the couch with Lee, trying to resist the urge to read all the
My favorite books ever are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.* Actually, I don’t remember whether I liked them when I was a kid–I think, vaguely, I thought they were just too weird. But maybe that’s just apocryphal memory-making. In high school, a friend of mine reintroduced me to them, and to The Annotated
The story of endless rejections (okay, 11) is getting published! “Fragile” is going to Parade of Phantoms. I will, of course, do the happy dance and announce when I know it’s going to go public.
