spent the afternoon chucking the year's worth of accumulated program ideas into @readercon.org 's suggestion box, as I do. you've got until January 31 to make sure it's not just me in there!
readercon.org/contribute
sorry not sorry?? (best on desktop; saves your progress)
today in technology: is my car refusing to remote start because the app just updated (vexing but hopefully will be fixed soon) or because it's single-digits Fahrenheit out (deeply defeating the purpose and making me long for the days when I could have a non-app aftermarket remote starter installed)?
I need to take a poll on the number of people who think the final Hilary Tamar book is worse than the others versus good or even better. It's definitely different, but last time I reread it, I thought it was the best of the four.
Anyway: read them, they are amazing.
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definitely! I just spent so long on the end of that one because, once again, I cannot count
truly humbling how bad I am at counting
I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 8th 2025 (Easy), in 05:17
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Moby-Dick (which I would have to buy a paper copy of, because all three of my copies are ebooks) and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
(via @cofax.bsky.social )
if the narrator in a work of fiction is telling the story by talking to "you," and the "you" is a character in the story, then the narration is first-person, NOT second-person.
(via @avaayers.bsky.social )
there is a lot of stuff in those settings; go check them out
when do the clocks go back and is it possible that the game will still be going?
thank you to @lingthusiasm.bsky.social for telling me about www.etymonline.com which is free and so useful!
nice!
do you think (spoiler's) friend called Morales who painted many murals ... was named Miles? @amalelmohtar.com
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 19th 2025) (hard and all green, go me!)
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my work here is done
I cannot fathom how an entire two hours about "narf" did not reference Pinky and the Brain even _once_. what is this world coming to
glad you liked it!
check the thread for the video version
ahhh Madeleine E. Robins has written a fourth Sarah Tolerance book!!! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/14/t...
I loved these Austen noirs back in the day (this post about the first two is from 2007, woof; obviously a third was since published): steelypips.org/weblog/2007/...
an absolutely stunning quilt (hand-dyed! curved piecing!) that I'm really annoyed isn't previewing properly:
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an extremely cool basket (there's another angle at the post):
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an impressively precise quilt:
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today's batch of pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, this time all from the exhibition on quilts and baskets (I don't know why the images aren't previewing, sorry).
a soothing quilt:
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thank you, putting it on my list!
another quilt, this time made of actual fabric: katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7972428...
the first from an exhibition of quilts and baskets (currently in Annville, Pennsylvania!): katenepveu.tumblr.com/post/7972353...
large paper quilling installation:
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today's links to pictures I took at the Fuller Craft Museum, starting with the last of the Ukrainian folk art exhibition--runs through November 2 and well worth seeing for those within range of Eastern Massachusetts!
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and then I might as well mention THE GREAT GATSBY while I was at it: steelypips.org/weblog/2025/...
(I have spent too much time doing this today, but if you're interested in hearing about the GATSBY ballet I saw, let me know.)
(I posted the CINDER HOUSE review last to end on a good note, though.)
