Entries from July 2009

July 29, 2009

When blue is a good thing

Simply because I haven’t done a blogthings quiz in like forever:

You Are Ocean Blue

 

You’re both warm and practical. You’re very driven, but you’re also very well rounded.
You tend to see both sides to every issue, and people consider you a natural diplomat.

What Color Blue Are You?
Sure, I’ll take it.
What’s funny is, way back in the [...]

July 25, 2009

Take 200 seconds

And watch the 100 best movie lines:

Bonus? They totally have a line we use in The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading.

July 20, 2009

The Austen Inspired First Line Contest!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an avid reader must be in want of these new YA books!

Prada & Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard and The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading by Darcey Vance and Charity Tahmaseb
If you want to enter a contest to win these books, visit this entry and complete the sentence: [...]

July 19, 2009

Milestones

So this morning I am officially the mom of a teenager. And I’m wondering: how the heck did that happen. Plus, my teenager happens to be heading to camp. Yes, on his birthday. But I don’t think he minds. In fact, I think it’s a pretty cool birthday present.
In other milestone news, someone has some [...]

July 7, 2009

Captured! (Screens, that its)

A while back, I logged into the WordPress Dashboard and saw this:

Now there’s something we’re not going to see for a while. Probably a long while.
And the other day, I logged into LibraryThing and saw that I could check to see if, according to LibraryThing, I would like The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading. What was [...]

July 5, 2009

This really is the geek girl’s guide to collages

I found this site today, Polyvore, where you can take images, products, and so on and combine them into what they call sets, but what are essentially online collages. From the site:

Polyvore is a free, easy-to-use web-based application for mixing and matching images from anywhere on the web. It is also a vibrant community of [...]

July 4, 2009

Best response to negative reviews EVER

I think Brad Meltzer wins the Internet with this one, at least for today.