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I officially have no fuckin' time for Forbes Magazine.

They've declared Chicago the country's most stressful city -- though the article was probably penned by the same morons who declared Santa Claus the richest fictional character in the world and we all know what I think about that.

But John Kass's response to it is pretty awesome.

Crowds don't cause stress. Baseball causes stress.

Review: Different Engines by Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook

Book review time!

I've been plowing my way through Different Engines for two months now, inbetween reading other things. From the cover you'd think it was a nonfiction YA book about the history of scifi, but it's actually a pretty thorough exploration of the roots of science fiction and its interplay with the progress of science (its subtitle is "How science drives fiction and fiction drives science").

( Different Engines by Mark L Brake and Neil Hook )

Final verdict: While I think it's an excellent book for people looking to write in the genre, or even just for people who want to understand it better, I don't think it should actually be looked at as a history. It's more like a really interesting collection of quotes, assembled in more-or-less order but without very many dates attached.

Which is why I dogeared just about every other page. :D

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AHAHAHAAH

Remember the conversation my coworkers had yesterday culminating in "Note to self: lock desk"?

I just got an email from GirlBoss:

I'm eating a Snickers bar. He didn't lock his desk.

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I was all prepared to lay some fandom smackdown on the utterly ridiculous formatting so many Torchwood fanfics have, but then Ikea called and they said my gorgeous new big-boy bed is going to be delivered on Thursday, so cranky old fandom curmudgeon is no longer cranky, and yes, you may go into my backyard to get your baseball out. Would you like some lemonade?

Relatedly, I go through phases of reading or not reading fandomsecrets, and occasionally I slip in a secret myself. But yesterday I made this one and then sort of sat back and thought, seriously, is this something I feel needs to be kept a secret?



Because if you have the fic, bring it. *gimme hands* And if there is no fic, well, you know what I do when I want fic and there is no fic.

Although if you link me to something that is formatted < small > or < b > or for god's sake < align=center > I will punch you through the internet. Not like, come through the internet and punch you, I will actually punch you through the internet as if it were a particularly sticky and badly-built wall.