Bend you over my knee and see how much you can take.

Your voice is mine.
If I could tear the voice box out of anyone and use it as my own - I'd take Mike Patton's. Sure, I'd sound like a guy but I could sing and sing and sing and it would always sound awesome. Though, if I were taking his voice box, I'd take his skull too. I mean, why not? It would make for a good conversation piece, and to tell it in his own voice would be even more interesting.

I'm still my own book club.
I finished reading Lost Horizon. It wasn't bad, even though it was written a long time ago. There was no horribly sexist moments and it was a nice read. I'm glad I picked it up. I also started and finished reading The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's somewhat a mystery book, but was well written and I enjoyed reading it. The 'bad' guy wasn't a cop-out, and nor was the ending of the book in many ways. I'm now reading a book titled Attack from Atlantis.

WHERE is the insanity?
Oh grow up. Sorry. Well, there HAS been insanity thanks to the G8/G20 summits. Some of it good, some of it bad. Some people need to stop acting like idiots, both inside and outside of the summits themselves. As for my OWN insanity - well I'm not sure where it's all gone lately. This drought of insanity has gone on for far too long and it's pissing me off. I killed the questionnaire and no one seems to be sending in questions anymore - I'm wondering what to do with the insane domain overall. I know it needs an overhaul, but it's such a daunting job at this point. One day something will change and it will be given new life, but I guess for now it's a rotting corpse, festering away on the internet.

Awesome links.

Little People Project
This is awesome photography and truly art. (And no, it's not the Fisher Price Little People.)


The Scientific Method 
A funny poster for kids demonstrating the scientific method at work.

Passive Aggressive Notes
Gotta love these. They remind me strongly of the jackasshole letters Schizoid found.

Ask JCP
That's right, I still update this section. Now that the Questionnaire is dead (yep, dead), this will be the section that I now update. If you don't ask me anything, then it too will die. I will blame YOU. Yes, YOU. Go on, ask me questions. I know you want to. DO IT.  I just answered some questions today.

I am my own book club.

Books I've read lately 

Aftermath - Charles Sheffield
The one thing that irked me was the casual reference to 'something' that had caused the supernova. Don't just hint at an alien species and leave me hanging! Then again, I'm a big sci-fi fan and I always want more about alien species, within reason of course. Other than that, it was a decent read. Sorry, I don't have much more to offer you on this one.

Timescape - Gregory Benford
This is a true hard sci-fi book, in that there is no hocus pocus explanation for time-travel, and it's not people going through time to magically make things change in the past. It was nice to actually have some believable and interesting scientists, having to deal with the political and funding crap that most (likely) do have to deal with. It was interesting to read that version of the future and past - and to see how things were resolved without creating major plot holes or paradoxes that made no sense. I liked this book.

Deepness in the sky - Vernor Vinge
An interesting premise for sure, and it was fun to read. The description of the alien species was done well enough that they were alien, but not so alien that they weren't able to be related to in any way, or alien for the sake of being alien. I was disappointed in the end though - I was hoping for more details, information on how two new species began to work together and so on. Otherwise I enjoyed reading it.

Atlantis - Greg Donegan
The whole book ended up being far too vague for me to truly enjoy. Ok, something scary bad is going on, but what? I don't like when books use that vague alien presence thing and then wave it away without any explanation. Come ON, you can think of SOMETHING! It's like LOST, they build it up and then shrug at the end. I'm getting tired of all this dialogue and character building when the MAIN plot gets shrugged aside. Yea, I'm a sci-fi fan, as I've said before, so I expect at least an attempt to explain what this alien entity is. Instead, it's all wrapped up without a real explanation and I'm to just be happy with the fact that everything ended 'well'. I'm not.

Time's Eye & Sunstorm - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
Two books of the same series - and I wish there were several more. Of course, I have read other books by Clarke, (what kind of sci-fi fan would I be if I hadn't?!) and I don't recall enjoying them quite as much as these two. I'll be sure to check out some of Baxter's now that I've read these two books. Anyway, the first book is quite different in many ways from the second, in that it pits two historical figures against each other in a strange-world setting. It sounds a bit fantasy-ish but it's not. The way they explain what has happened and how people from various times relating to each other works well. I can't say much more than that - but it's a good read. I had both books before I started reading the first - and was able to pick up the second immediately to continue reading. Each book can be read independently of the other, but I did enjoy them both. The second book is in a different setting than the first, but retains a character from the first. Both books are well written and explain what is occurring with science, but not so much that your head spins. Anyone who is interested in science, astronomy and the universe will be familiar with much of it already. Even if you're not, you won't be totally lost.

Currently reading

Lost Horizon - James Hilton
Why am I reading it? It was on my bookshelf and I haven't read it before.