Weekend Assignment #214 – Fresh Starts

The Weekend Assignment is posted each Friday at Outpost Mâvarin; a roundup of responses goes up the following Thursday, so if you’d like to join in, you’ve still got some time. Karen says: Don’t worry if you don’t get your entry in by the end of the weekend. It’s called the Weekend Assignment because John Scalzi originally designed it to give folks something to write on weekends, but times have changed since then. Now the […]

Scraps and snippets and random stuff

Announcements: * If you want to join in, it’s not too late – Book Binge starts tomorrow, and lasts till the end of May! Sign up here, and please tell MaryP that I sent you (Mike, Literary Feline, and Alisonwonderland did!). * This week in Weekly Geeks: Weaving a book-review web – here’s how it works. Going forward, whenever I post a book review entry, I will link to other bloggers’ reviews of the book […]

Who’s on (the computer) first?

This one came via e-mail, and I think it’s been around for awhile, but I enjoyed it – and if you have fond memories of a certain classic baseball-related comedy routine, you might like it too. (And if you haven’t yet come over to the Mac side of the street, it might make you give that idea a little thought too.) You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old […]

Friday Follies: BTT, FFI…but no 123

Friday Follies: BTT, FFI…but no 123

My list of books in progress hasn’t significantly changed since last week, so I’m skipping the Page 123 meme this Friday. No news isn’t necessarily good news…it’s just no news. But since I’m doing Book Binge during May (have you signed up yet? MaryP is posting the participant list today, so hurry on over!), I’ve got some incentive to make some more reading progress in the next few weeks, so I expect to visit a […]

Book events – Binges, Festivals and Carnivals

Book events – Binges, Festivals and Carnivals

Here’s a fairly painless challenge, especially for those of you who would be reading anyway – MaryP is hosting her annual Book Binge during May. Details: For the month of May, participants keep track of each and every book you read. At the end of the month, everyone will blog their list of books. Simple, no? For simplicity’s sake, and to allow people time to hear about it and sign up if they want, we’ll […]