Thoughts like Yahtzee dice shaking in my brain

...AKA the tabs I've left open for whatever reason.

First, a meme that skirts the edge between funny and unsettling, because it hits close to home:

( Haiku? Thank you! )

And from another option on that site, my blog-word is Other. Huh.

From an oblique chain involving miniglik, prose so purple it's practically octarine.

synecdochic's post on Ada Lovelace Day makes me think about my favorite women in technology, most of whom are fictional (Willow from Buffy and Mac from Veronica Mars, for starters). I've never had a female boss that was a programming mentor, nor have I had a lot of female classmates or co-workers in the field of programming. My female friends in other areas of technology seem to be (for the most part) singletons as well. I hope the numbers improve for the Gen-Yers and beyond.

Soon, I'll be leaving to pick up the Emperor. Hopefully he's had another awesome day, because I could really get used to walking in his classroom and not flinching at another razzer-frazzer incident report standing up in his cubby.

As long as I'm tempting fate, I'd love to go a couple of months without car troubles, because the amount I dropped on getting the brakes on my van fixed last week is just now catching up with me. OUCH.

But OH the Shame!

seperis, pundit vixen that she is, pointed out brown_betty's Oh My God, I Can See Your Id!, a discussion of books "where an author appears to be exposing her id, and doesn't know it."

Most of my favorite authors from my pre-adolescent through teen years are mentioned in the comments, from Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey to David Eddings and Robert Heinlein, with special mentions of Marion Zimmer Bradley and other fixtures.

I was already feeling embarrassed by some of those just by the way they have not aged well at all, or that I have. Now I don't even know if there will be anything left in our library to steer the Emperor towards the Good Stuff. "Um, well, there's Jim Butcher and Glen Cook and Kage Baker and...Crap. Lemme get back to you."