No Friday Five Again
No Friday Five this week again. Not that I mind. I think I will just climb into bed and read. I'm reading Whale Music by Paul Quarrington. Paul is a Canadian author who doesn't get enough recognition, even within Canada.
Whale Music has been made into a movie but I haven't seen it yet. I plan on seeing it but not until I've finished reading the book.
I stumbled across Mr. Quarrington when I picked up a book called Home Game at a book sale. I liked the cover and when I read the back cover it sounded like the kind of book I could enjoy. The writing on the back said "The fundamentalists want the freaks to leave town and a baseball game is organized to decide who gets to stay. During these all-important nine innings we learn that, despite all appearances, these eccentric characters cannot deny the humanity that makes them all members of a single team". It ended up being a very nice story about a bunch of circus freaks who play a game of baseball against a bunch of fundamental amish people (for lack of a better word). Excellent writing and excellent characters made it a very enjoyable.
I doubt you'd be likely to find any of Paul's books outside of Canada or you would have to look very very hard to find them. They are well worth the search though.
Apostrophe
I just learnt something interesting. Did you know that "it's" can both mean "it is" or "it has"?
Interesting, in a geeky way, but interesting none the less.
Science in Comic Books
With the sudden resurgence of comic books, due to comic-based movies (ie. Spiderman and X-Men), a University of Minnesota professor has started teaching an interesting physics course with the help of superheroes. The course is entitled "Everything I Know about Science I Learned From Reading Comic Books" and uses comic book examples to explain everyday physics. I use to collect comic books, back before they were too expensive, and I would love to have the chance to take this course. I was just about to say something about "real world physics applications" but then I remembered that superheroes aren't real! I've been playing way too much Freedom Force.
Blogdex
I find this rather funny. I'm within the first 100 entries on Blogdex due to Firda commenting about my HBO Kitten post. I don't think I've ever been on Blogdex before and this is a great honour. I know Firda gets huge ratings when she puts out one of her famous quizzes :) Thanks Firda :)
