Hummingwolf Today

Now wearing: Long-sleeved bluish-green shirt with Tigger on it, black jeans, and boring underwear. No socks yet, though I'll likely be wearing white ones later.

Last meal eaten: Pasta (one of the tubular kinds) with a tomato, veggie, & sausage sauce and grated Parmesan cheese. Partial pomegranate for dessert. Mmm... pomegranate.

Last books read: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Recommended by ibyi and enthusiastically endorsed by the check-out chick at the library. Both interesting and entertaining without being too morbid. Probably not for the easily squicked.

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, by Michael Shermer. There are some skeptical books out there which claim to be logical refutations of crazy beliefs while turning out to be nothing more than emotional screeds by people who want you to believe they're smarter than you are. This is not one of those books. This is the way skepticism is supposed to be done: by showing you the differences between science and pseudoscience, history and pseudohistory. This is not a perfect book, but it is a good one. With useful sections on such timely topics as "creation science" (pointing out why creationism is not an attack on evolution, but an attack on science) and Holocaust denial.

Color of the day: Orange. The most brightly-colored tree visible from my bedroom is a luscious orange and it gives me joy to look at it.

Current bodily annoyance: Either the backache or the growing headache. I suppose they're related, really.

Song in my head: Nothing, which is unusual enough to be noteworthy.

Quiz result of the moment:( Me as an action hero )