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.
No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
Toddson - Apr 10, 2013 10:37:35 am PDT #20642 of 28388
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DebetEsse - Apr 10, 2013 10:49:42 am PDT #20643 of 28388
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I just realized that HoL may have quashed my dream of a secret passageway in my house.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 6:32:40 am PDT #20644 of 28388
not your mom's socks.
Mad thanks to PC for a favor of the introducing kind.
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 6:47:33 am PDT #20645 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 6:49:38 am PDT #20646 of 28388
Because books.
Update?
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:05 am PDT #20647 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 6:53:54 am PDT #20648 of 28388
Because books.
In email, or one of those notifications up in the upper left corner?
Oh, wait, you said Touch. I have a Fire. Never mind.
hippocampus - Apr 12, 2013 7:43:06 am PDT #20649 of 28388
not your mom's socks.
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 12, 2013 7:55:47 am PDT #20650 of 28388
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Amy - Apr 12, 2013 7:57:48 am PDT #20651 of 28388
Because books.
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.