Today was work, work, work — getting books entered, reading for reviews, taking notes and getting set for a WSFA (Washington Science Fiction Association) Meeting in DC. For the next six month or so the club is meeting in DC … usually we meet in Virginia for the first Friday of the month, and Maryland […]
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I’ve often wonder how people know things or how information spreads from one person to another. Not so much in an educational classroom sense but those things that you pick up in daily life. Then, the other day I ran across this article on Evolution and Facebook’s “25 Random Things”. The results of the questionnaire […]
March came in like a lion. There’s an old saying I knew as a child: March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb. Hopefully, that means that the end of March will quietly meld into April. But, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, I got a new coffee […]
Orange, a young high school student, is obsessed with an artist that lives in her apartment building. He’s always drunk. He ignores her, but she looks out for him and hopes one day he’ll pay attention. Then he comes up on the roof while she’s there. He looks at her and shows her a letter. […]
I’m happy dancing all over the house. I got my Kindle 2 in the mail today — late, very late afternoon. Then it was Google time to figure out how to get the PDF review copies of books from my PC to my Kindle so I could read them. Many minutes/hours later, I ended up […]
Haven’t had much time to think, let alone posts. But, my hubby found that absolutely wonderful knitting cartoon. You’ll find it Wondermark #491. I mean really, some men just don’t understand the need for knitting. My hubby thought I’d get a kick out of it because every trip we take, I spend more time trying […]
Today an article in National Geographic News reports that liquid water was recently seen on Mars. Phoenix, which landed near Mars’ north pole, has taken several photos of itself and a recent series of photos seem to show water droplets on the lander’s legs that are clumping together and running downward. If it’s not water, […]
Sometimes when I read the results of a new scientific study, such as this one on “Loss of Height Linked to Breathlessness in the Elderly“, I wonder why they didn’t know that already. One researcher said: “The results of the study were far more profound that we expected, given the relatively small number of subjects […]