Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and Tor.com (scifi, fantasy)
- Neil Gaiman Twitter smackdown!
- Linkity from Inkophile.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Gift ideas from Smart Bitches.
- Bookish ornaments.
- Some free printable bookmarks.
- “Where to start with Seanan McGuire’s books“.
Do, Make, Learn, Think
- NASA’s look at the current California wildfires.
- NASA’s review of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season.
- (Aside: If you are looking for LEGO’s extremely popular “Women of NASA” set at its actual retail cost of $24.99, Target.com had it as of Tuesday, December 5.)
- Pizza night on the International Space Station.
- How fiber crafts led to the moon landing.
- “References to Mexican culture in Coco“.
- “We need more care“.
- “Meet Max, the cat who lost the library but won the internet“.
Cookity
- Roasted squash, corn, and black bean enchiladas.
- Smoky beet hummus.
- Cheesecake cookies.
- One-bowl brownies.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- Ducks in a row.
- Local lake with loon.
- And suddenly, winter.
- Twin Cities landmarks in gingerbread.
- Star Trek/Star Wars mashup.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
- The DipClip.
- Columbia’s new winter jackets based on The Empire Strikes Back.
- Starry Le Creuset pot. (It’s cool, but the price isn’t…)
- You can get your pet’s photo on a pair of Chucks.
Wha…?
- Kilty Pleasures calendar. (The pun, it burns!)
- Fidget spinner keyboard keys.
LOL
- This is my kind of ladies’ night.
- Simon’s Cat and a little box.
- Simon’s Cat and the Christmas tree.
- Simon’s Cat and kitten crazy time.
- Cat anatomy.
- We’ve all been there.
- The Celsius/Fahrenheit mashup temperature scale we’ve all been waiting for…
Teh Cute
Reading Update
The Furthest Station (Peter Grant #5.7) by Ben Aaronovitch. Pretty good continuation of the series, but not great. Not sure if it was me or the book, but I kept getting tangled up and having to go back and reread bits.
The Question of the Missing Head (An Asperger’s Mystery #1) by EJ Copperman & Jeff Cohen. Samuel is an Aspie (of the very male type, familiar to many) who has recently started a business answering questions. He is not a private investigator, which he has to explain to people quite frequently.
The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband (An Asperger’s Mystery #2) by EJ Copperman & Jeff Cohen. Pretty good continuation of the series – enough so that I’m on the wait list for books 3 and 4 at my library.
Written Off (Mysterious Detective Mystery #1) by EJ Copperman. Pretty good mystery about a mystery author who’s contacted by a man who bears an uncanny similarity to the main character in the mystery series she writes…
Edited Out (Mysterious Detective Mystery #2) by EJ Copperman. I didn’t find the second book quite as enjoyable as the first, but now I’m curious how long the author can sustain this amusingly ridiculous premise.
Asperger’s on the Inside by Michelle Vines. Ok autobiographical account of growing up in Australia with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome. I still can’t complete figure out why this one didn’t work for me. The spectacular overuse of exclamation points was a tiny part of it, I’m sure – it’s hard to read a book that exuberant.
“What lunch bag cooler? I don’t see a lunch bag cooler anywhere!” -Mayhem
The NASA photos of the LA fires is so frightening. That smoke could be headed our way at any moment. My heart breaks for LA.
May, no one can see the lunch bag, thanks to you.
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I read that as Kitty Pleasures Calendar and was disappointed. 😀
I do not think the lunch bad cooler exist
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I love the knitting and moon landing link! Also the list of Seanan McGuire books. I have also added some library card socks to my wishlist. 😉
AND OMG. The list of “Coco” references was exactly what I’ve been looking for since watching the movie last weekend! (Loved the movie, by the way. So worth seeing.)
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…so does that mean you managed to snag the Nasa women LEGO set??
on that gift list, the microwaveable slippers are cool the first time, but then you’re putting things that have been on your feet, and touching the floor, into your food preparation chamber :/ Short of buying a second microwave just for them, I could not use these.
I agree about Furthest Station, but still, another book in the series! I never knew about Norway House. And textiles and NASA – I spent some time playing the coding game on Google the other day. That’s the extent of my knowledge!
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I do not remember ever seeing an island in Lake Harriet, let alone a loon. (We lived about 3 blocks from that lake for 20 years.)
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I had a huge collection of Christmas ornaments I’d collected from my travels but I can’t find them! It’s very sad so have to start afresh!
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