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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
11:47 am	Will write for charity Well, this was unusual... I was asked to participate in an auction in which my rabid loyal readers would bid in an auction for a bit of Kokopelli fanfic. Particulars are here http://supportstacie.net/?page_id=221 So, what do you readers think of this? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
2:34 pm	Know your stuff - a kitchen warning We had an interesting mishap the other day.  Whilst cooking dinner for another family, my wife took a pyrex pan from the oven and placed it on the burner of the stove.  Next, that burner was mistakenly turned on (the controls of the stove desperately need a better layout).  Result? The pyrex pan exploded - sending hundreds (if not thousands) of shards of glass all over the kitchen. The Pyrex of old was borosilicate glass -which resists expansion when heated.  Since the early 1990's, however, stuff sold in the USA under the Pyrex label is plain old tempered glass.  Tempered glass expands three times as much as Pyrex when heated - hence it's more susceptable to breaking due to thermal shock (although tempered glass is actually more shatter resistant than Pyrex). The Pyrex glassware made for laboratories (test tubes and flasks and the like) is still made of borosilicate. My lovely wife was rather rattled by this.  I cleaned up the kitchen, and the next day, I purchased some Marinex glassware from Amazon, which is still made of borosilicate glass. Moral of the story - know your stuff, don't leave stuff on the burner, and know where your broom and dustpan is stored. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
10:17 am	Yet another review - Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud As you may know, my commute lends itself to audiobooks - some of which are great, some of which are not-so-great... This is one of the not so great ones. ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
10:21 am	Up periscope (books, movies and potato salad) An update on this and that... ( Read more... ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
1:27 pm	My ears are full (pleasantly) of audiobooks My youngest (now 12, soon to be 13) is a girl who talks - a lot.  This post, however, deals with the audio books I've been listening to of late. ( Read more... ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
6:32 pm	Now What? Version 2 There were some niggling bits about the first draft that I didn't care for, so before I send it to my beta, I thought I'd post it here again.  ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
7:32 pm	Now What? (a Deathly Hallows ficlet) Waking up in a bed, a real bed, after a year of cold, hunger and too short, rickety camp beds and sleeping bags strewn over stones and tree roots was disorienting.  ( Read more... ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
3:48 pm	What I've been reading - or in my case - listening to... I've not been doing much writing of late. ( Read more... ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
2:23 pm	The Unexpected Horcrux - Chapter the Third I've not forgotten the challenges I requested recently - I have the beginnings of a Jasmine does St Lucia day story, and another missing moment from HP-HBP, Harry and Luna after the Christmastime Slug Party. Here's the beginning of the last bit of Fan-fic that I've committed to finish - the third chapter.  ( Read more... ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
3:08 pm	Shorts - as in call for You know what to do,,, ( Read more... ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
1:27 pm	Up my nose with a rubber hose (Sleep Apnea and CPAP) No, we're not having a "welcome back, Kotter" flashback. I've been living with obstructive sleep apnea for quite some time.  ( Read more... ) (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 1st, 2007
8:09 pm	SHORTS! Call for drabbles! SHORTS! Okay, now that you're awake. Life has been interesting at Casa de Cornell of late - but I don't want to write about that. So, what do you want me to write? ( click me, you know you want to... ) (37 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
2:22 pm	What I'm watching in the fan-fic world I really am trying to finish the last installment of The Unexpected Horcrux, but ... Stories that I'm watching, with comments: ( Read more... ) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
6:09 pm	Kokopelli sighting I've been a tad busy of late ( Read more... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
12:47 pm	Quo Vadis, Kokopelli? Quo Vadis, Kokopelli? (translation - where are you going?)   ( Read more... ) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
10:18 pm	The Unexpected Horcrux - Chapter the Second (installment) I've got a few more scenes in this chapter to go yet, but here's a big down-payment. ( Read more... ) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
3:15 pm	Order of the Phoenix (spoiler free) As usual, the book was better. ( Read more... ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
1:42 pm	In praise of -- Parts Tech rant ahead. ( Read more... ) (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
9:25 pm	I'm back... More or less... ( Read more... ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, June 15th, 2007
12:07 pm	Cold Fusion - the Third Has been sent to the Betas. (Comment on this)