oh wow, you should've nipped that. nipped it in the bud. :(

I'm getting a 404 when trying to use the beescee.com link. the first one is good though.

you don't even have to email it to yourself. you can just fill in the bcc, i don't know why you'd include yourself on there twice.

Pretty sure it's a Stendig. A bit pricey, but nice and roomy for busy days too. Scroll down for the link (within the text) to buy one from the publisher: [www.stendigcalendar.com]

no way, not if you have a supportive spouse. after the first few/several months, when the kid sleeps and wakes at all hours, you will then have several years of them needing about 12 solid hours of sleep per night to be healthy, sane, and less annoying. if you have a supportive spouse, they will help you to protect…

thank you. yes, exactly.

Also, you should read this book to your kids:

Yeah, well, back when I was a kid we had to do that to get to school but there weren't any handholds!

yes, listen to ykarie. they are correct.

I don't know...did you notice that's Mr. J's in the background there?

ha! looks like a katamari cousin!

Please fix the spelling of Yuri GAGARIN's name in the source at the end of the article.

So far, none of these wtf type posts beat that one with the baby frogs hatching out of the backflesh of the mother. that one was just so horrible.

nope, me too. the bat procession was too incremental. I was waiting for the sudden mass flight that never happened.

I feel the same way about the Oscars that Eddie Izzard feels about Queen Elizabeth: they're sort of "hmm" and I'm more sort of "mm".

hm, I have The Last Starfighter, on DVD I think rather than blu-ray. From Amazon though, not some special order thing. Had it about 2 years I think?

thanks for the mention of gunbuster. i never heard of it before. have added it to blockbuster queue, preparing for mind being blown. :)

good job! I'm still working on my mom (20 years after reading my first Pern book) so she can finally, maybe, hopefully understand what makes my sister and I so passionate about sci-fi and fantasy books.

oh, wow. that's great! thanks for the chuckle. :)

me too! a short of K'van and the the white dragon, Ruth, was in my lit textbook. I would sometimes go back and read it again when I finished my work early in class, even months later. It took me a long time to get more of her books because our library didn't carry them at the time. Then one day, we had to go to a…