Walking in Circles before Lying Down Review
Walking in Circles before Lying Down, Markoe. Yes. I laughed more reading this book than I have laughed at a book in a long, long time. Ms Markoe is a gifted humorist.
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Deadly Chiropractors!
In the deceptively boring titled press release (“State revokes, suspends licenses, certifications, registrations of health care providers”) from the Washington Department of Health, some people lose their medical licenses for some terribly exciting reasons.
A nice follow-up for Lammas
The Anticraft has many wiccan and gothic crafts, with a nice sense of humor. The Lughnasadh ’06 issue theme is Danger! and includes a knitted bomb cosy.
July Reading
Not much this month, but maybe more will come as the weather cools.
Alternative Minimum News
I have sometimes toyed with the idea of a minimalist news site, one that only tells you the news that you really need to know, and only updates you when there is actual new news. But since most people I know are habitual news trawlers, I don’t think it would be for anyone but me, […]
Applied Science
Here at FP, we do science so you don’t have to! Experiment 1, Field: Economics. Can you pay for purchases at the Fred Meyer self-serve checkout only using pennies? Answer: sort of. I got through $2.00 in pennies (buying a soaker hose, toothpaste and two baking pans) when the attendant asked if I was really […]
the accidental Review
the accidental, Smith. Yes. This is Ali Smith, not Zadie Smith of On Beauty, though this book, too, performed well (this one took first place) in the Tournament of Books. There is much I might have disliked about this book: the narrative style is flashy, there are not-infrequent somewhat extended passages where a narrative voice […]
June reading
I’ll only preface this list by saying that I read a lot of magazines last month.
Books of Swords Review
The First, Second, and Third Books of Swords, Saberhagen. If you like that sort of thing. I re-read these to see whether I missed anything cool in Ardneh’s Sword. The refresher did clear up the otherwise-inexplicable pointless character from AS, but, if anything, made the latter work even more of a disappointment in retrospect. There’s […]
Patently rhetorical questions
Toward the end of an article about how computers are getting too good at text recognition is an odd bit: "H-P no longer owns the patent, said Brigida Bergkamp, a spokeswoman for the technology giant. She declined to disclose what had happened to the patent." The patent was acquired by an undisclosed buyer? Isn’t the […]