- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (YA SFF), Gizmodo (SFF, horror), Book Riot (best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “20 newly discovered Terry Pratchett stories will be published this year“.
- Oh, Kurt, we’re really in it now.
- “Jimmy Carter’s Presidency was not what you think“.
- Learn about starfish.
- xkcd tries to spare us all an annoyance. (Hover cursor/long-press for alt text/caption.)
- “Should you warm up your car before driving?“
- “Do you really need 10,000 steps a day?“
- “Size difference between prehistoric animals and modern descendants“.
- You’ll never guess who invented the cat flap.
- “16 baking recipes that don’t require eggs“. (I’ve made the chocolate crazy/wacky cake before and it’s delicious.)
- “There’s a Napoleonic Man of War simulator“.
- A mini choose-your-own-adventure game called “Escape the Wizard Dungeon”.
- Competitive hobbyhorsing.
- Cake batter donut-flavored iced coffee from Dunkin’.
- “Autism causes vaccines!“
- (As an aside, I know, tumblr has started doing this “you gotta log in to see the rest of this post” thing for long posts. UGH. On the bright side, you can quickly create a tumblr account to do so… and it won’t be as creepy as creating most social media accounts is.)
- What a $50 million house in Utah looks like inside.
- Simultaneously simple yet ornate.
- Remodeled Victorian that barely looks Victorian inside anymore.
- Still has that Tudor feel.
- I got stuck on the red bathroom.
- Very colorful!
- Huh.
- No, thank you, I do not want to live over a highway.
- I would definitely fall off one of the edges.
- :blink blink:
- I guess if you’re going to die falling down the stairs, these are at least lovely.
Harry always looks so skeptical/crabby, but he’s the sweetest boy!
Polly sitting like a people.
Mayhem asleep on my lap.
Thanks for the book release links! I really wish I liked the Veronica Speedwell books, because I adore their covers. The Mimicking of Known Successes is a book I’m really looking forward to, as well as Bitter Medicine. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers also sounds really fun! And, oooh! New Pratchett short stories! Also fun! (Even though they’re not Discworld.)
That house in Utah has a $22,650/Annual HOA??!?! Sorry, WHAT on Earth do they do that’s worth that? (Though, I mean, $50 million house… but I got stuck on the HOA cost…)
ALL of those staircases are cursed. I can’t decide which one is the most cursed. But I would definitely fall on each and every one of them.
A recent post from Nicole..Reading Wrap-Up: February 2023
We use..plug in things to warm our cars. Plug it in , set a timer, and the car is warm when you go out. Cos else u will break that damn car if it is -30c
I have always been a huge Jimmy Carter fan. What an extraordinary man and a great human being.
Not particularly for the home it is in, but perhaps for some others, I kinda get the wine rack in the hallway. Though in most cases, it should be a lot closer to the front door. “I’m not taking one more step into this eyesore without a nice glass of fruity Cab!” Some of the explosively colorful or otherwise visually frenetic homes might have Pre-emptive LSD and Shroom racks at the end of the driveways. And maybe portable-steps-for-too-many-levels-with-too-few-walls house has random Johnny Walker Black & Blue Labels Racks scattered about along with the Opiate Pain Killer Racks.
Not ready to join Tumblr yet. Although I hate being cut off in the middle of an interesting post, I feel like the sites that do this are doing more of a disservice to the posters.