Penguin Girl

books: the first days

April 24, 2008 - כ' ניסן תשס"ח • Category: books

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First, THANK YOU!! The presentations went very very well yesterday and my classmate and I are both relieved but there is still a considerable amount of paper editing before we can be Finished completely. My upcoming deadlines include Tuesday (presentation/paper for the other course due) and May 9th (Final Paper due). That Rice Chex are now gluten free has me believing this process won’t be as difficult as previously believed. ;) Well, I’ll be joining the 5 year olds in the cereal aisle on Sunday night.

Onward to books:

We’ve established I read a lot. Put in a 3-day Shabbat/Yontif combination along with avoidance of the looming deadlines and you find books finally finished and a large chunk of others started.

However, I still haven’t yet had the time to properly draft posts. At the end I’ll fully disclose why I may have been distracted today..

In author alphabetical order …

Gods and Androids
by Andre Norton

Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920 by Barbra Schreier

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

かぎ針ですぐ編めるバッグ＆帽子
by Ondori

But what to say about them? Go read them all. Schreier’s book is one I’d been looking for many years ago. I had no idea that Bladerunner was based on Do Androids Dream, it had just been on my reading list for eons. When I realized it was a very short book I decided to tackle it sooner rather than later. I’m glad I did but still need to process it all. Does anyone know the English term for the process described in the japanese book? Also, does anyone know a source in the city for macramé cord or a good source for the material used therein? I guess it will wait until we next get to one of those big generic crafts stores …

I’m making huge progress on the space opera Pandora’s Star and I must admit that I have a book problem. I return one book to the library and come home with 2 or more. There is not a equilibrium to the traffic of books in the apartment.

Anyway, here’s why my post today is quite brief even after a few extra days for drafting.. (I’ll include this week’s gorgeous weather with the brevity..)

I am the happy new owner of a new little and very much improved digital camera, a Canon SD1100 — in brown (anyone surprised?). E is jealous. :D I had a reward from staples which made this model cost considerably less and made it a nice treat. It’s soo amazing. Why? It can take macro shots, my old (still working, very good, big, bulky, 3.1MPx Canon Powershot SI) couldn’t. And I luv me macro shots. E and I have been discussing this for quite some time and very seriously the past few months.

Here are two macro photos I’ve taken with it. There will be many more as I play with it and learn how it works. While many of the settings are familiar because I stayed in the Canon family (E (and his father) are Canon people, but since I don’t SLR it’s not as important; I’ve just found their interface the easiest for me to understand and navigate and their organization software (which these days isn’t as important as it was a few years ago) kicks butt. Especially the new version. My mac was running 3.4 or something and it’s now at 6.1. I approve of the few changes I’ve noticed so far.) Anyway … I like it. It’s SO much smaller than the old one and it is taking some getting used to as I need to hold the camera differently but so far I’ve been impressed with it.