Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category

Upcoming sci-fi, UF releases

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Here are tentative dates for upcoming sci-fi and urban fantasy releases from some of my favorite authors. If I missed any authors, I’m sorry. (K. A. Stewart has a new book coming out, but I couldn’t find a release date for it. I’m not sure what John Scalzi has coming out next).
Sept. 2011

The Lost Fleet: […]

Borders

Monday, July 25th, 2011

It’s a sad that Borders is closing. There is a large Borders near us, serving as the main bookstore for Tigard, Lake Oswego, and Tualatin–somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 people.  According to our local newspaper, our Borders was the most profitable in the whole country.
Hopefully, other bookstores will step up and take over some of […]

Baby on board

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

The old “Baby on board” signs failed because they were too small and the warning wasn’t worded correctly.  Parent know that the warning wasn’t to let other people know that a small child was riding in the car–it was a warning that a parent was driving.
The signs should have been 2′ per side.
The warning should […]