Book time

How to Live on Mars by Robert Zubrin - this isn't nonfiction, and it isn't a novel - it's a fictional piece written in the form of a nonfictional guide. Got that? Imagine one of Heinlein's libertarians carried away that one teeny step further into totally amoral greedhead, and then have that person volunteer to show you around Mars. Quite a bit of real science in it. Any fan of science fiction OR of popular science should like it. Single favorite bit: the "photo" on page 194 of "the founding of the Free Martian Republic." You'll recognize some of the faces right off, and be able to figure out others with just a bit of research.

Now to head for the library again!

Words go past my eyes all day

and now they go past yours via Twitter:

• 23:15 vanity plate: MSSFIT #
• 23:23 Volvo introduced the 3-point seat belt fifty years ago this month #
• 23:24 I love the term "seed predators" #
• 15:31 we can has public radio fund drive. #
• 15:33 WbJC - all classical all the time, run by Comm. College of Baltimore City. Send them money. #
• 16:25 drizzle, public radio fund drive, it must be spring! #
• 16:55 neeeeeeewwwwwww boooooooooks! #
• 16:58 forsythia, cherry trees in blossom. Many people not aware Baltimore has as many cherry trees as DC. #
• 16:59 within 2 weeks, though, the ornamental pear trees will have completely swamped the cherry trees. #
• 19:41 @OceanOfTea No, for me tea is not seasonal, it's year-round. Iced in the summer! Lots of teas make good iced teas. #

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