Austenland or Dresden Files?
My enviable dilemma for the evening is to either watch another episode of my new favorite show, The Dresden Files on SciFi (via Itunes), or read more of Austenland, by Shannon Hale (I managed to grab an ARC at ALA …
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Buy an Ad. Get a Cat.
This has made me giggle every time I’ve seen it for the last … SIX years. That’s how long it’s been since I worked at the trade magazine in Chicago where this was in a trade publication the magazine received. …
Tour guide day
I just got to give a tour to howardtayler (of Schlock Mercenary) and sandratayler and their awesome kids. They’re in town for the Emerald City Comicon–which is this weekend, if it somehow slipped your memory, so if you’re going, stop …
The non-post post and an open thread on fantasy
Just a quick drive-by to say that there will be no post of substance today because ARRRgh and GRRRRR, my old apartment complex totally sucks. Went back tonight to finish the last of my cleaning and take out my vacuum …
Endless Quest
Does anyone out there–teachers, librarians, writers, readers–remember the Endless Quest books? Anyone out there read them as a kid? If so, can you shoot me an email at stacy l whitman AT gmail DOT com, or just comment here? (take …
Trial run
I’ve started a mirror blog at http://slwhitman.blogspot.com just as an experiment. I’m not sure why. Mainly I hoped to try out Windows Live Writer and its ability to post to two blogs at once. I thought I might post to …
It’s like something Wizards would do
I can totally see my coworkers doing something like this. We’re a quirky bunch, as you can imagine–I mean, really, what do you expect when you work in a whole company of gamers and book nerds? Book nerds… ah, that’s why: …
LibraryThing vs. Goodreads
Anybody have experience with both of these? I can’t use LibraryThing’s widgets on my LJ because they’re javascript. Goodreads.com’s widget is HTML, but appears to be too large for my sidebar. At least both of them lets you import and …
More unpacking new icon
Thanks to davidlubar , who helped me get my new icon down to the right file size to upload to LJ. I have no idea why Photoshop was making it so large, but I have a great icon now however …