December 2010

SCIENCE!

I love science. It’s so…science-y. So sexy. The internet is indeed for porn. SCIENCE PORN. (Do you have that song in your head now? You’re welcome.) It seems attempts at making babies in micro-gravity may encounter difficulties not experienced in Earth’s gravity. Interesting. I may not use that in my current SF universe–in the Dream’verse […]

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Tail of a Kitty

Tail of a Kitty

Menace the cat jumped into my lap. I petted him and put him down. He came back. I petted him, put him down. He came back. I petted him, put him down, and got up to get a drink, hoping he’d go find a place to nap before I returned. He meowed at me and

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Guilty Pleasures

Guilty Pleasures

You know what I mean. Those things you do, that you just know people would laugh at you for. The stuff you like, that you’re supposedly too sophisticated or too smart or too whatever for. One of my co-workers was asked (at a previous job) if she wasn’t “too old” to be a Buffy fan.

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The Easy Way? Hardly.

The Easy Way? Hardly.

This post was prompted by a discussion of self-publishing–taking the “easy way”–that I stumbled across in my internet wanderings. Rather than beat people over the head with my opinions, I left a brief comment there (no, I don’t remember where exactly–I actually started this post during NaNo and only now rediscovered it) and came back

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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

I did not come up with this; it is from Family Circle’s Best Ever Cakes and Cookies. And these cookies are just that–the best ever. So, in response to the threats of Mr. Chuck Wendig, I give you my favorite cookie recipe. Right after I babble a bit so the picture of the squid ninja

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NaNo Debrief

NaNo Debrief

So. That was fun. Not. NaNo was rough this year, and I think I know why. One, I was over-confident. Most years I finish handily, getting my 50K by the 28th at the latest. Last year it was the fifteenth! So I didn’t worry as I fell farther and farther behind. Two, I was trying

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