December 14, 2007 To: Headmaster Richmond and the Board of Directors, Alabaster Preparatory Academy I, Frankie Landau-Banks, hereby confess that I was the sole mastermind behind the mal-doings of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds. So opens one of my favorite books of all time, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, by E. Lockhart…. Read more »
names
My assignment was to memorize the names of the stars.”
“Which stars?” “All of them.” “You mean all the stars, in all the galaxies?” “Yes. If he calls for one of them, someone has to know which one he means. Anyhow, they like it; there aren’t many who know them all by name, and if your name isn’t known, then it’s a very lonely feeling.”… Read more »
Lost in Translation
This article makes me sad. And mad. Changing topic… I’ve been having some great exchanges with my Korean translator for Graceling, Yoon Hoh, as she works through some of the trickiest parts to translate. At a certain point, I realized that you guys might find this stuff interesting, so I asked her permission to share… Read more »
FAQs, the Universe, and Beyond
The gorgeous image on the right is a composite Hubble/IRTF image of storms on Jupiter. I got it here and you can read more about it here. Lest you be impressed with the ease with which I fling around high-tech telescope-y terms (like telescope-y), be assured that I have no idea what I’m talking about…. Read more »
