Cyn is a professional geek, avid reader, fledgling coder, enthusiastic gamer (TTRPGs), occasional singer, and devoted needleworker. She's also Rick's wife, Katie's Mom, and Esther & Oliver's Mémé.
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Ouch

How do you crack a rib without even knowing it? Damn. At least, we think that’s what’s wrong. And it isn’t going any magically, dangit! I guess I have to go to the doctor 🙁

Ouch

Originally published at Enemy of Entropy. Please leave any comments there. How do you crack a rib without even knowing it? Damn. At least, we think that’s what’s wrong. And it isn’t going to heal magically, dangit! I guess I…

It Burns!

I was reading Eileen Wilks’ novel Tempting Danger and mostly enjoying it, until I hit one of the sex scenes. And then, she wrote something like, “This time adagio, rather than fortissimo.” There wasn’t one editor or proofreader with any…

Giggles

We’re watching Hogfather. It is insanely, delightfully silly.

Review: Rogue by Rachel Vincent

Rogue by Rachel Vincent My review rating: 2 of 5 starsI am officially annoyed. I want some kind of law, or at least an industry standard, that requires publishers to label any novel that doesn’t tie up all its little…

Time Sinks

Thanks to an LJ friend, I spent a whole lot of the last few days reading The Law Dog Files. The man really does need to put together a book of his stories, or maybe a few books, because he…

Nerd Joy!

We’ve been scanner-deprived for many months now, because the multifunction printer gave up the ghost. We acquired an older model HP scanner via Freecycle a while back, but it wouldn’t work. The moving bit inside had been locked down for…

Methinks I Need to Safeword

I’m about 3/4 of the way through The Devil’s Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow—3rd of 5 or 6 books in the Dante Valentine series—and I don’t think I can take any more. I want to know how the story ends.…

Blah – Spammers Are Scum

Not that it’s news to anyone, I know. But Defensio was down this evening (because of an Amazon server failure), which meant that all of our sites have been slammed with comment spam. They all get hit constantly, but it’s…

TotD: Ray Kurzweil on Change

Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Centuries ago people didn’t think that the world was changing at all. Their grandparents had the same lives that they did, and they expected their grandchildren would do the same,…

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