My carrots cakes turned out to be very cute, though admittedly different from the professional ones in the book.
I spent most of yesterday in the kitchen, but the kids went out in the evening and I read The Science of Discworld. I am enjoying it very much, since you ask.
The premise is that the wizards of the discworld have magically created a “roundworld” — ours, in fact — and the book runs through the beginnings of the universe with a big dose of Discworld-style narrativium.
I haven’t written much about it because so far it has run through quantum machanics, global warming, mass extinctions, evolution — yawn! — all the topics I have been reading about and therefore writing about since Ash Wednesday.
Different points of view keep it interesting, but it is after all the same stuff. And, barring a few things that got discovered while I wasn’t paying attention (I was really busy in the 1980s), it is the same stuff I learned in school or in the news since. As The Science of the Discworld puts it in the introduction, “We have [written about] Schrodinger’s Cat, the Twins Paradox, and that bit about shining a torch ahead of a spaceship travelling at the speed of light. This is because, under the rules of the Science Writers’ Guild, they have to be included.”
(If you didn’t learn that stuff in school, you should ask for your money back.)
I look forward to reading novels again, beginning after lunch. Nonfiction, too, of course, but I want things lightened up a bit.
Today is Easter. If you are, like me, heading off to church for the most joyful celebration of the entire year and then gathering your available loved ones together for a feast, I wish you a very happy Easter indeed!
If not, enjoy your day as much as possible and I’ll see you tomorrow.
I like your carrots dudes!
I said to someone “Christ is Risen” on AIM this morning and they signed right off. Never to be heard from again. So I sent them a follow up of “Happy Spring Solstice?” that they will get when they next arrive.
Just in case Jesus and such is offensive to their delicate and “educated” ears.
Happy Easter!
Thanks for the Diskworld info. I have, indeed, read it all, but I get the impression that Terry Pratchet is likely to make it all more lively and interesting.
@chanthaboune – Actually, I was greeting people at church this morning with “Christ is risen!” and they didn’t seem to know the proper response. They said, “Ummm…. yeah.” It must just be a little too high church for our current settings. I miss it, though. It’s as though you said, “Merry Christmas” to people, and they didn’t get what you meant. It’s part of the holiday missing.
Oh, and I don’t think it’s a solstice. I think those are for summr and winter, and the other seasons get an equinox. I could be wrong.