Writing Excuses: Fifteen (more like twenty) minutes long, because you're in a hurry and they're not that smart. But they are really informative on a wide variety of writing topics. Brandon Sanderson, Howard Taylor, Dan Wells and Mary Robinette Kowal get together every week, pick a topic, and spend fifteen minutes…

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And no tips on how to keep the lasers on the heads of the sharks... They keep falling off and I just going to resort to superglue if these straps keep letting go. I've lost 4 henchment this morning having them retrieve the pile of lasers from the bottom of the shark tank and the sharks are getting fat and docile…

Good, well written article.

Someone already mentioned Terry Pratchett so I'm changing mine to Jim Butcher's Dresden Series. Brilliant series that is perfect for introducing people to urban fantasy novels.

Why not use Goodreads? It has a pretty good "list" system (they call "shelves"), and it has three by default: Currently Reading, Want to Read, and Read. You find the book you want to read, and it to your to-read shelf. When you're reading, you can keep track of your progress, add notes. And when you're done you can…

Neil before Zod...

Doesn't really matter what your specific beliefs are. Pouncing on an off-hand atheistic remark/joke, as evidence of some sort of global scourge, and even referring to it as proselytizing...you're now slumming it with the Koran-burners and the War on Christmas clowns, whether you like it or not.

A match made in ceasing to exist?

Card advantage? Check
Survivability? Triple check
CMC? Not bad
Missing?
"When Jamie Lannister enters the battlefield, put three colorless 1/1 Children creature tokens onto the battlefield"

This is really fascinating, but not for the article content. Rather, it's interesting to see into the mind of someone who is living in their own "echo chamber" or "gated society" and not even be aware of just how different their world is from where the overwhelming majority of people live. In the subject's world,…

Did anybody else read this and empathize with the nanny???

I can't imagine raising kids for 8 years and then suddenly being "let go" for yearly au pairs, even if they weren't actually my kids. The wife might have saved some money, but now the nanny's lost her job.

If there's anything I'VE taken away from this article,…

I think a good candidate for that normal person could be her nanny of 8 years that she let go. They can talk about budgeting after losing work so some super rich lady could get a slightly less high paying job.