"My mouth's bleeding, Bert! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals...Zuzu's petals! There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!"~George Bailey, It's a Wonderful Life There have been times I've experienced computer problems when I would spend hours and hours cleaning up this and patching that. And at some point I'd find it was just [...]
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A Letter to 13-Year-Old Me
A few months back, Guilty Secret wrote a letter to her past self. I thought this was a great idea and always meant to steal it from her. Then I saw that R.E.H. at Ramblings of a Madman was participating in a meme where you write a letter to your 13-year-old self. So, I thought, [...]
Gravity, Four-Year-Old Styleor My Inability to Teach Science
My daughter was helping me clean the fish tank this weekend. "What's this?" she said, holding up a plastic nozzle attached to some rubber tubing. "It's a little bit like a vacuum for the fish tank," I explained. "It sucks up the fish poop from the bottom of the tank." "Is it loud?" she asked [...]
Read Memememe!
Ok, usually when people do that meme thing where they say "I'm not going to tag anyone, just do it if you want to," I go away and pout because I didn't get tagged, so obviously no one loves me. And I get all huffy and say, "Fine! If you don't love me enough to [...]
The Quantum Physics of My Marriage
I am about to do something that my husband hates more than almost anything in this world. Mark hates it when liberal arts types (like me) try to stretch their overly simplistic misunderstanding of scientific theories to help them explain this thing called life. Of course, I do this all the time, because I love [...]
Aphra Behn Interviews Me: Part 4
This is Part 4 in a 5 part interview of me, by Aphra Behn.If you missed them, here are: Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3. 4) Keanu Reeves - actor or eye candy? (With examples from at least four of his films, please!) Keanu Reeves, I'm sorry to say, does not have that [...]
