http://blog.quasigeek.net Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:48:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I kind of forgot to post this last week. Whoops. As usual, click on title names for full review! The Secret of Lost Things; Sheridan Hay I really wanted to like this story. It's focused around Rosemary, a young girl working in a mysterious bookstore, learning about the world around her. A ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=290 Since quasigeek's inception eight years ago,* I've been cheap on my hosting plan. When I first invested in the domain, it cost me a whopping $19.95 a year. And that was okay for my little personal site that no one cared about. And when my hosting company was bought out ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=283 I kind of want both these guys. It's really hard not to impulse-buy at the moment.   Mary Poppins is probably my favorite children's movie. I don't know if I liked it as much when I was a child, but the more I think about it the more I adore it. Set ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=276 My old faithful iPod nano has served me well. Her name is Trinity (given the fact my old desktop was Mr. Anderson. Get it?). My parents gave it to me for Christmas during my senior year of college, and she's been put through much abuse and commuting since then. This week ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=272 It's a good thing I have friends who are also left-handed, otherwise I would forget that International Left-Handers Day existed. Every year. And hey, guess what? It's today. Now I can start my well wishes earlier in the day rather than saying tomorrow, "Hey, know what yesterday was?" In honor of ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=269 Lately, when I've acquired new books, it's either through paperbackswap or on the free book shelves at work. I don't remember the last time I wandered the book store and selected things randomly off the shelves. So today, with my list of "wants" and 25% off coupon in hand, I ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=262 (click titles for full review) Hush, Hush; Becca Fitzpatrick I'll read anything having to do with angels. They're kind of my thing. What I wasn't expecting is this basically being the same story as our favorite vampire story, except, well, he's an angel. And if you know anything about me and ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=255 For anyone who knew me in the early 90's, you knew I planned to marry Gavin Rossdale. This wasn't completely unreasonable, I believed. I, too, was a musician, and smarter than my peers, and who cares if I was only 12 years old and one of millions of girls with ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=249 I suppose the title of "geekblog" is slightly less pathetic than this "new" title, but at least I made the attempt to shake things up around here. And if you think about it, with the current URL of the blog, it's the only thing that could possibly make sense. So ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=245 I'm kind of in the mood to re-sort things around here. When I first started this blog (which was over a year ago), "geekblog" was sort of a temporary name until I thought of something better. Needless to say, I kind of suck at names. This layout was also temporary, and ... http://blog.quasigeek.net/?p=243