January 2009 Archives

questions and answers

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(This is crossposted on facebook from my blog! Cool!)

A long time ago, in a fit of laziness about this blog, I told people to post questions about anything and I'd answer them. It's been almost four years and I'm just about through them, so I'd like to invite that again: hit me! With the Qs! Leave them in comments and I'll make a list and get through them at least as fast as an old guy on a bicycle.

Meanwhile, I have been tagged by about sixtyfivehundrenty people on Facebook for this "25 things about me" kind of thing (I am NOT doing the Google Name meme, because every time I've tried it has come up way too dirty for my HP-fan-heavy readership). This list is not so much a response to that as a more generic list of things going on right now.

  • Everybody bother John Noe (at his facebook?) to redesign my site. We owe each other birthday and Christmas presents (I still have Sue's and Lizzie's in my car ready to go out IT'S TERRIBLE I AM TERRIBLE) and he said for my birthday/xmas he'd do my site. I want to take him up on that. And it gets him MY gift faster. :P This page is a freebie template and I really want to start making it look more professional. So bother him. On his facebook. Right here.

  • This has been a very long time coming, but I am a total convert to the Nerdfighter cause. I follow EcoGeek, have an account on the Ning, am almost done with John Green's books (seriously, read them; he's great), and have subscribed to the Vlogbrothers. The transformation is complete. Thanks Lizzie, you rat. Like I didn't have enough to follow. Sorry it took a year and a half for me to pick up on it. I come late to the party often. (Witness Harry Potter.)

  • MyLeaky. Holy crap. Proud doesn't even begin to describe how I feel about this project, especially when I think we almost let Alex Robbin out of our grasp.

  • I love the show Bones.

  • I'm likely going to be in San Francisco in the first week of May for a book speech thing. More details soon and of course on Harry, A History.com.

  • I'm going to be at Comic Con next Saturday! Signing books. Again details at Harry, A History.

  • Two of Cheryl's author's books won awards at the ALA awards banquet and I'm so proud of her I can't stand it.

  • I have discovered delicious Edy's lemonade ice pops, and the world seems so awesome because of them.

  • Fitting It In is back and we are KICKING BUTT this time.

  • I haven't seen a good movie in too long. Last Chance Harvey sucked.

  • I love books so much. I just feel like saying it often, lately. I love books that make me think and laugh and hurt and cry and imagine and travel and sigh. And all the other things too.

  • My mom seriously has a MyLeaky account and is using it without my help, which makes me proud.

That's all I got on this cold night as I'm still stinky from the gym but lack the energy to rise and shower.

Give me questions and answers you shall have!

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New Days

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Israel, Hamas

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I don't pretend to understand the eternally frustrating and endlessly cyclical nature of the Israel-Hamas conflict. However, I think we all owe it to each other to try and figure it out. I think post-9/11 Americans have no excuse. I think it's the most important thing happening in the world right now.

To that end, as is typical, Andrew Sullivan has made a strong post that goes beyond explaining what's going on and well into talking about whether Israel's recent action is justified. Again, I don't pretend to understand, so I can't make judgments, and honestly I think judgment is about the last thing anyone needs over there right now. I just think we all need to make some effort to understand it, if a solution will ever be possible.

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