math never was my best subject

but i still know what exponential means.

as in, the freckles on my nose are increasing exponentially.

it's everywhere you want to be.

literally.

check it:
this is my new visa card.
no, not my actual card (sorry to disappoint), but it's what mine looks like.
turns every point-of purchase into a point-of-pause in my quest to save pennies for the motherland.
pound for pound (or dollar for dollar for that matter :), it's dominating my reminder rubber band.
zions bank is genius.

my name in lights...sort of...

so i was wandering around seagull book earlier this week when what to my wondering eyes should appear:

THREE whole PUBLISHED books i in some way assisted in editing before publication!

(there were actually four i saw, but one is so brand-spanking new there is no cover image online.)

(...and i may or may not have indulged in some toploader "dancing in the moonlight" as i celebrated the first fruits of my professional moonlighting career...)

I couldn't have said it better myself.

"It's just some people in a smoke-filled room who dreamed it up. Plutoids or haemorrhoids, whatever they call it. This is irrelevant."

-Alan Stern, a former Nasa space sciences chief on the reclassification of Pluto.


Click here for the full article.

"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." ~P.J. O'Rourke

Newsweek is my latest habit.
I like it because it is informative and interesting.
I love it because it diplomatically presents both sides of every argument.

This article is no exception and I found it quite a fascinating read:

(click on the image to make it readable)