Somehow I missed the first volume of this manga series by Amy Reeder Hadley. This is a story of two girls. Penny, high-school student and clothing designer, has formed a club in her high school for girls only to learn how to recognize jerks and avoid dating them. She’s even developed a list of boys […]
We’re usually told that we get all the Vitamin-D we need from the sun. I’ve heard that 10-15 minutes a day in the sun is enough to give you your full daily requirements. However, now-a-days most of us avoid the sun and if we do go out we make sure to put on sunscreen and/or […]
According to a Scientific American article from September 12, 2008: In fact, oil companies have yet to take advantage of the nearly 86 billion barrels of offshore oil in areas already available for leasing and development. So why are they chomping at the drill bit to open up the moratorium waters and survey them anew? […]
Okay, finally the new external disk drive arrived. Thankfully, it got here before everything blew up. When it arrived I had only 1 GB of space left — everything was sooooo slow I was growing moss on my mouse. But, once I got it plugged in and moved all the photos and electronic books to […]
I get spam. I get lots of spam. Spam, spam, not beautiful spam. And it’s too bad because the real spam, the kind that comes in a can, isn’t bad. When I was a poor struggling student, I ate spam a lot (and not the script for the play either). I had spam sandwiches, spam […]
I’d thought about writing something on this topic, but hadn’t really figured out what I wanted to say, when I found this article on Numbers on Teen Pregnancy as a Freakonomics NY Times Opinion piece (here’s the Freakonomincs NY Times blog). I found the statistics on teen pregnancies interesting: High teen pregnancy rates remain a […]
Not much to say. The zines went live yesterday. So if you go to SFRevu or Gumshoe Review, you’ll find the new September issues are now up and live. This month SFRevu has an interview with Joe Abercrombie, the author of The Last Argument of Kings. In Gumshoe, we’ve got an interview with Sheila Lowe, […]