I feel so incredibly lucky to have great friends who are as excited about the baby as we are! We have already received two baby gifts in the mail. The first, a Care Bear from our friend Anna (who has an almost unhealthy obsession with Care Bears and says that we need to train the baby young!): Thanks, Anna for our first baby gift! It really means a lot to us...
Continue readingI read on That Wife today that the BBC believes most people have only read 6 books of the 100 in the list below. Although I had seen the meme on Facebook before, I was intrigued, because earlier today I had spent $100 on new books and was thinking that I need to get over this addiction called "reading." According to the instructions, you are supposed to put an 'X' after those you have read. Let's see how I stack up...
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Gizmodo just featured an image from the upcoming book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia. As a lover of design, data collection, charts, and graphs, data visualization is right up my alley. I was delighted to discover that there exists a corresponding blog called Information Is Beautiful. Unfortunately, the blog is still fairly new and so only houses 13 posts - not nearly enough to quench this geek's unsatisable thirst for knowledge. However, I have no doubt that the blog will blow up very soon...
Continue readingLast birthday, my sister bought me the book equivalent of a geek's wet dream: The Force is strong with Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary. Continuing the great tradition of delicious visual representations, LucasBooks, in conjunction with LEGO and DK Publishing, announced earlier today that the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary will be available come October. ...
Continue readingYou already know my thoughts on Twilight. I always thought I was in the minority for not falling head over heels for the story. That's why it delights me whenever I find someone who agrees that it ain't all that. Cracked has written a hilarious post titled, If 'Twilight' Was 10 Times Shorter And 100 Times More Honest. Fellow Twilight-naysayers, please join me in this merriment. My favorite lines: BELLA Yeah but I have a BOYFRIEND now, which means I no longer have to be independent or physically capable of doing anything on my own. ***** DR. CULLEN Welcome to our ridiculously expensive home. I'm the father figure of this family because I'm the one who turned them all into vampires. There's something disturbing about the idea that I've...
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