A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole...*

...that knows how to read.*


Last Thursday i tracked down a second-hand English-books bookstore. (Sque-ee indeed.) I spent a lovely afternoon there, because I'm suck a book geek, jotting down interesting titles and/or books, ( such as: )

I ended up buying Night Watch by TPratchett, which I've been reading so avidly I've almost finished it, and Kushiel's Dart, of which I've heard a lot, but never with enough detail. Still, that one line, "That which yields, is not always weak," is pretty neat****. (The fact that there's now 5 novels in the series, "Kushiel's Legacy", is a bit daunting.)

Links of the Day:
Tom McCollum's Quotes Page
MShades' Review of Night Watch.


* Guards! Guards! by TPratchett
** Only cool because NGaiman's American Gods novella is also called that.
*** Very Marvin-ish.
**** Albeit abusive of the poor defensive coma.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.*

Yesterday I bought a 1 GB pendrive (itty-bitty, I know) and today I've returned it (unused). Why? 'Cause I can totally save €3. That's like, amazing. (No, no it isn't, but I'd feel guilty otherwise.) Alas, the other, cheaper, store doesn't have the new order of pendrives yet, so I'll get it tomorrow. Instead, I bought, for €1, a pair of chopsticks in an adorable little woven basket-thingy holder. Fantastic!

I've also checked out a bit on Vrije Univ, and Amsterdam has emailed saying that they're terribly busy and can't tell me if they're going to tell me sometime in the near future whether I'm accepted or not. "Patience," they say. "Argh!" says I.

I also say "Arr" because PotC3: ATW is being released this week. Woot!


Links of the Day Part 2:

Rejoneo, the art of bullfighting with a lance on a horse that can actually move. (None of that picador stuff.) Note: I'm not pro-bullfighting - though I'm not excessively anti-bullfighting either. I like it for the horsies. Damn fine horsemanship. Observe.

Stardust site is up!


* Anthony Crosland