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{ Monthly Archives } January 2009

Iceland….worries me

There are riots, their Prime Minister announced elections, and their economy is imploding. I’m hoping they do not suddenly remember their traditional methods of improving the country’s GNP.

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2009 01 24 mythago Politics Comments Off

Book Peeve

I have an aversion to books that are part of a trilogy or other mult-ology. I’m better with series books, like the Discworld novels or the Old Man’s War novels, where each book is complete by itself, and reading the previous books is helpful but not strictly necessary. But when I’m deciding to invest time [...]

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2009 01 23 mythago Angry
Books
Tech
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The Inauguration Thing

I wanted to watch it online, but was outvoted, so we went to Grandma’s and watched it on an actual TV.  (So retro.) We let the girls stay home from school to see it. What’s to say? It was awesome, although I think the kids got a little tired of us explaining who all the [...]

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2009 01 20 mythago Politics Comments Off

“sphincter-print camouflage”

One of the best posts about being called “politically correct” by assholes, ever.

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2009 01 19 mythago Angry
Feminism
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Scalz-Tastic!

If you missed the reading by John Scalzi and Mary Robinette Kowal at Borderlands Books last night, well, I hope you were off saving the world or at an all-star orgy or something equally top drawer, because otherwise your evening, by comparison, was as lame as lame can be. John Scalzi is even funnier in [...]

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2009 01 17 mythago Writing Comments (3)