Inspirational Tuesday!

Haters Gonna Hate, But...

Book Excerpt for the Day

    The second disappointment was personal.  As had been prearranged, he and Burden-carries-Far spun a random-numbers disc, and Looks lost.  He did his best to conceal his unhappiness, congratulating his colleague, who was appropriately apologetic for having won.  Burden offered the honor to Looks, who formally declined, whereupon a joyful Burden sorrowfully prepared to open the hatch door and be the first to set foot on the Shirazian surface.   

    (from Quozl by Alan Dean Foster)

  7*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Science Saturday!

    Usefully logical.

Library Day tomorrow!

    Every third Saturday we go to the main branch of the Phoenix Public Library, borrow 10 CD's each, get a couple DVD's, and occasionally pick up a book or two.  Tomorrow's the day!

Writing Screenplays

    Personally, I'm intrigued by "Aliens vs. Care Bears".  It reminds me of that classic movie, "Bambi vs. Godzilla".

Relativity

    Time is relative.  Relatively, at least.

Graffiti Art Tuesday

    Minimalism Edition.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    Chee presumed these radio blind spots were caused by the mountains but there were other theories.  Deputy Sheriff Cowboy Dashee insisted that it had something to do with magnetism in the old volcanic necks that stuck up here and there, like great black cathedrals.  Old Thomasina Bigthumb had told him once that she thought witches caused the problem.  True, this part of the Reservation was notorious for witches, but it was also true that Old Lady Bigthumb blamed witches for just about everything.

    (from Coyote Waits, by Tony Hillerman)

     8*/10.  The full review is here.

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Skittles Art

    Ingenious!  Although upon looking at the individual Skittles closely, I am slightly skeptical that there are that many flavors/shades. 

Turbans

    Makes perfect scientific sense to me.

Flowers

    Who knew?!

Robbery

     LMFAO.

Inspirational Thought Wednesday

   

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “It’s a SETI site.”

    “SETI?”

    “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”

    “Oh, right.”

    He talked quickly.  “We’ve spent forty years now listening for radio whispers from the sky.  But that’s twentieth-century thinking.  If you were an ETI, and you wanted to learn something about the Earth, what would you study?  What better than the Internet?  It’s by far the largest, most organized information source on the planet.”

    I said carefully, “You imagine aliens are logging on.”

    “Well, why not?  You’d learn a lot more about humankind than by sticking a probe up the rectum of a farmer.”    

    (from Coalescent by Stephen Baxter)

  8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Freeway Driving

    How come other drivers don't know about this rule?

My retirement aspirations

    Without the muffin-top, though.

Complete Sentences

    True dis.  However, it also has to do with me being a grammar nazi.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “All right,” I said to Barry.  “I won’t make any more fuss about taking the job.  This is a very big adventure and I suppose I should be grateful to my future self for suggesting me.  Because, after all, my future self must remember everything that the me now did in this time and if it was truly horrible he could have said that he didn’t want his younger self to get involved and so I wouldn’t be here, would I?”

    There was a certain silence in my head.

    “Barry,” I said, “are you there?”

    “Yes, I’m here chief.  It just got a bit busy and confusing in here for a moment.”

    (from The Abominable Showman, by Robert Rankin)

     8*/10.  The full review is here.

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Belly Rubs

    This would be our Bella.  They even got her colors right.

Cooking and Chemistry

    Yeah, this is pretty much me in the kitchen.  And I am a chemist.

Chalk Art Tuesday

    Fabulous!

Your Dali weather report

   Looks like there's a strong melting watch system heading down over Arizona tomorrow.

Superhero Sunday

Motorcycle Mama

    Another real book, by Trisha Yeager.  Available in Hardcover at Amazon for the low low price of just $9.999.98.  And the paperback version is just a measly $318.91.

DNA Match

    I don't know if this is scientifically accurate or not, but it is plausible.

Vile Vials

    From last week.  Jeez, I guess cartoonists don't see the need for spell-checking.  But this is the vilest typo I've ever seen in a comic strip.

Your Cute

    And now you know why grammar nazis are lousy flirters.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    On location for Glamour in Key West, my roommate was a former Miss Universe who convinced me to try her prescribed amphetamines.

    “Are you sure they won’t make me feel weird?” I asked.  “And aren’t they addictive?”

    “Not at all,” she answered.  “I take them every day.”

    (from Cybill Disobedience by Cybill Shepherd and Aimee Lee Ball)

   8*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Astrophysicists and Lawns

Lyrics

    Awesome.

Friday Fun Fact

    Even more incredible :  To go from MILK to WINE only requires THREE letter changes!!

Einstein Knew

    Einstein wasn't a dummy.  He knew what was coming down.. So long, suckers!!

Arizona News Flash

    Oh Arizona,  How you do embarrass me sometimes.

Tautology

    We are committed to posting any cartoon which uses the word, and embraces the concept of tautology.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    My office is in a building in midtown Chicago.  It’s an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year.  I don’t care what anyone says, that wasn’t my fault.  When a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

    (from Grave Peril by Jim Butcher)

    8½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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Pool Party

    We post this every time Liz throws a pool party, such as today.  And yes, ours was the first house bulit on this cul-de-sac.

Scrabble

    A couple ideas for your Christmas list.

Pumpkin Spice

    And I for one am happy it is arrived again.

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “What did she call it now?  Yoga!  Yes, that was it!”

    “And then?” asked Lucia.

    “Well, it appears you must have a teacher in Yoga or else you may injure yourself.  You have to breathe deeply and say ‘Om’ –“

    “Say what?”

    “Om. I understand the ejaculation to be Om.  And there are very curious physical exercises; you have to hold your ear with one hand and your toes with the other, and you may strain yourself unless you do it properly.  That was the general gist of it.”

    (from Queen Lucia, by E.F. Benson)

    5½*/10.  The full review is here.