Power is back on!

I now have:

+ Over the Rhine's "Ohio" two disc awesome album (you do not understand, I've never heard a band so achingly Midwestern before, they feel like the good parts of home to me)

+ Feathers! For costume!

+ A nifty biography on Alan Turing because I cannot turn down $5 books at the bookstore with the cats roaming about and being cute (omg, I missed you!)

+ A monopoly victory

+ ELECTRICITY

~Cendri

Book Review: "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Finished reading my second of three books (and possibly more, but I only have to read three) for the herding cats reading challenge this weekend, mostly because I had no electricity to distract me. A thoroughly steampunk alternate history novel, which basically links several of my great loves in one tight package. Recced by wallwalker.

( Behold the Difference Engine which Lord Babbage hath wrought )

~Cendri

I am a girl and I like science fiction; these are not mutually exclusive concepts

Alright, so I'm a little annoyed today. Not because of work (because the people at work are awesome and we're working out some awesome shit) but because there's a theme in the things I'm reading lately. Well, on the internet and other such publication places. It's the tone that is starting to really make me kind of twitchy. The worst part of it is that it seems to be coming from women!

And it is this idea that if you are sciencey or just like sci-fi, you cannot be girly. At all.

( yeah, I'm sort of ranting again )

Linkage for those that tl;dr:

- Omg, I love this outfit. Then again, I love that era muchly.

- Thinking about packing for Otakon considering the new weight rules and shit. Also because I like reading. XD

~Cendri

P.S. TODAY'S MOTTO AS DISPLAYED ON OUR WHITEBOARD:

"Tip of the Day: Avoid making Dracula angry!"