kiya

Seeking recommendations from fellow parents: good basic anatomy book for small children, particularly one that doesn't bowdlerise the genitalia?

Because I mentioned it elsewhere and figured that folks who saw that comment and read me here might appreciate some more thorough commentary.

( Cut for length. )

... I'd write more but I hava to put KJ to sleep now. :}

More LOLSilmarillion under the cut.

( Ainulindale )

"In signing below, you warrant that you are the sole owner of the rights granted herein, and that the work does not infringe upon the copyright or other rights of anyone. The rights you are granting are nonexclusive ...."

My [impending] publication credits, they grow increasingly wacky.

Short public review of Raven Kaldera's Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM and the Ordeal Path:

Wow, that was so much more useful than Carnal Alchemy.

( Longer public review )

From papersky.

May add more quotes over time. I'm trying to do a first pass all with books; I may do a second pass with song lyrics.

( It's these little things, they can pull you under; live your life filled with joy and thunder. )

3351 words on the chapter, whatever it is. brooksmoses can probably tell me what chapter it is. 497 of those were written today.

I really oughta find a good userpic for these writing entries, just because I can. I'm tempted by the mountainous heap of books in this corner, overflowing its cases and stacked up on the floor, but I'm not sure I want the world knowing how cluttered my living room is. (*eyes one stack*: From bottom to top: Greek: An Intensive Course; Bird Diseases; Teach Yourself Sanskrit; a Hebrew-English Tanakh; Aspects and Personality.) (And another, somewhat more randomly distributed: The True Game (Tepper); Defender (Cherryh); a Scottish Gaelic dictionary; the Canterbury Tales on top of a book on herbalism whose title I cannot see.) (Last time I did this I came away with the profound impression that I was a flake; this time I seem to come away with the impression that I'm a language-obsessive flake, which is only rendered worse by the stack consisting of the Vampire: The Masquerade players guide, an Intermediate Algebra textbook (taken out to try helping lstone with something), another herbalism book, a book on Chinese horoscopes, and a case of Polish language tapes.) I think all my winemaking books are in the heap in front of the snake tank.

Hello, there's a Dr. Seuss book in there somewhere. *fishes it out* I'm sure there's an explanation of why One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, but for now I'll just put it on top of the language tapes.

I don't think I'm up to starting on chapter next-plus-one, so I'll stop here on the night and probably go to bed soon because I'm having a Sorry Excuse For A Mammal temperature moment.

It has never before occurred to me to consider the default mode of Christian dualism as being an old chestnut of a logic problem:

There are two doors, one leading on towards the goal, the other heading for certain deat^H^H^Hamnation. The guardian of one door tells the truth, and the guardian of the other always lies.

The tricky bit is figuring out which is which. . . .

I'd steal this for my own cosmology, but I don't entirely know where to put it. Hail Eris.