For what it's worth, the rust in the water was temporary - they'd been working on the water heater - and it cleared in a minute or so. Just enough to scare me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I just realized that HoL may have quashed my dream of a secret passageway in my house.
Mad thanks to PC for a favor of the introducing kind.
You're quite welcome.
Has anyone else gotten the new Kindle update?? It's so rare that updates don't make me decry change in general, but the new look is kind of snazzy, and HOLY SHIT THE TIME TO READ FEATURE IS ALL I EVER WANTED. It calculates your reading speed and tells you how long you have until the end of the chapter and the book. Finally, FINALLY, this changes everything.
Update?
I got a Kindle Software update for my Touch yesterday. I'm actually not sure how the hell those things work when I don't turn on the wireless, but they do.
In email, or one of those notifications up in the upper left corner?
Oh, wait, you said Touch. I have a Fire. Never mind.
Oh Hugh Howey. I don't want to link it because it doesn't merit clicks. A quick twitter search will do fine: Hugh Howey Worldcon.
I saw Seanan talking about that on Twitter but couldn't find it. Let's see...
Ew. There are less gross ways to tell that story. And here I had been intrigued by the Wool phenomenon and kind of wanted to check it out.
Less gross? That's all you've got?
I'm going to blog about it later. Like I said to Sox, if a male YA writer talked about a female YA writer that way online, the wrath that would befall him would be epic.
Nothing proves you're a great writer better than using the two most cliched female slurs in history -- bitch and crazy.