All bad precedents began as justifiable measures. — Gaius Julius Caesar This was the week for the fantastic book acquisitions. The book I won on ebay came in – a first edition Heinlein. The book was great (Friday, one of my favorites) but what came with it is what made my day: Heinlein's signature, on top of a piece of Bonny Doon letterhead. Then, pointed me to a post in where some one was selling a complete set of Harry Potter books – the British version. Hoo! We met the guy on Saturday, and before too long I'll get to…

Very Well-Rounded You have: 70% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 70% EMOTIONAL INTUITION The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.) Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world…

Captain Carrot Well done for sitting through the whole test! You scored 64%! You know more about certain areas of the Discworld, but nothing at all about others. Try reading (or re-reading) the full series, then take this test again. My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 28% on pratchett Link: The New Discworld Test written by Gorefreaky on Ok Cupid

I didn't get yesterday's Dilbert cartoon, so I asked Rob about it. This led to an argument discussion about Xeno's paradoxes. I dunno. But as far as the arrow paradox is concerned, all I have to say is “E pur si muove!” Math hurtz my brane.

“A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.”

First, I'm a sucker for serial books. Wheel of Time by Robert Fucking Jordan, Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind, Rowling's Harry Potter, Robert Asprin, Piers Anthony, Grafton's Alphabet series, The Cat Who books, John Sandford's Prey books, etc, etc. If you hand me a big fat book that says “Book 1” I will curse you, I will cry, then I will ravenously fall on the book. Second, I'm a Stephen King fan. Love his stuff. I've got a whole shelf or two of Stephen King books. And yet, I've never read King's Dark Tower series. Can you believe it?…

“Biology explains how life works. Physics explains how forces work. Astronomy explains how the stars work. Chemistry explains how matter works. Evolution explains how life changes. Creationism explains how to put your fingers in your ears and shout 'DOESNOTDOESNOTDOESNOTDOESNOT!!!!!'”

Ok, so morning routine is alarm goes off at 7, struggle out of bed sometime hopefully before 8, feed the cats, out of the house by 9. This morning, the alarm goes off, I hit the snooze bar. gets up and I doze off a little. Alarm goes off, hit the snooze bar, doze a little. Mai-lyn gets up on the bed. She comes over and yells in my face like only a Siamese can do, and ever so gently pokes me with her claws just slightly extended. I reach over to the alarm clock and hit the snooze button.…

Tags are cool. If you want your tags to work like this, you can't have spaces in the tag. I use a period between words, some use an underscore, others a dash – but a space won't work. It'll look like it worked, but if you go to the tag link, it'll say the tag does not exist. For some reason, LJ puts a + between the words, instead of a space (or a %20 even) – which means, it won't show up right.

Is anyone else having trouble w/ LJ pages not wanting to load photobucket images?