Five Tuesday bits
Sep. 12th, 2006 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. My wife leaves the hospital today! Yay! I spent the night at the hospital last night, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elionwyr (who is about ten levels above sainthood) finally had to return home. I can definitely vouch for the fact that home is better.
2. Today is the release day of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs , the book by Ken Jennings. If you've read any of his wonderfully written blog entries (and anyone who reads an entry like this one and knows of my love for comics will understand why the Jennings blog is one of about six blogs I never miss reading), you're probably just as excited as I am for this book's release.
3. Work is insane this morning. Nothing new there, I suppose, but I'd expected things to be slower by this point.
4. I know their magic number is four, but I'd still like to see the Mets actually try to win a game.
5. I finished the latest Tim Powers book, Three Days to Never. It borders a little on Powers Pastiche (hey, yet another famous scientist turns out to have been involved in metaphysical conspiracies), but Powers, like de Lint, is a good enough writer to overcome his own cliches. It's also a nice metaphysical take on time travel that still manages to play with some scientific issues (combining Jewish rituals with quantum physics).
elionwyr (who is about ten levels above sainthood) finally had to return home. I can definitely vouch for the fact that home is better.2. Today is the release day of Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs , the book by Ken Jennings. If you've read any of his wonderfully written blog entries (and anyone who reads an entry like this one and knows of my love for comics will understand why the Jennings blog is one of about six blogs I never miss reading), you're probably just as excited as I am for this book's release.
3. Work is insane this morning. Nothing new there, I suppose, but I'd expected things to be slower by this point.
4. I know their magic number is four, but I'd still like to see the Mets actually try to win a game.
5. I finished the latest Tim Powers book, Three Days to Never. It borders a little on Powers Pastiche (hey, yet another famous scientist turns out to have been involved in metaphysical conspiracies), but Powers, like de Lint, is a good enough writer to overcome his own cliches. It's also a nice metaphysical take on time travel that still manages to play with some scientific issues (combining Jewish rituals with quantum physics).