"Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. " — Cory Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe)
Posted by Monkeymanx in Nerd stuff, PersonalYesterday was a nice, geeky day. I got home and found this in my mailbox: 
That’s right, a Garden Jawa! I finally have something that will scare away all those pesky little droids that I find in my garden!
I had actually forgotten that the garden jawa had shipped, so it was a nice surprise for me when I opened the box. I like it, Candy was expecting the jawa to be bigger. By my poor reckoning skills, I’d say that the jawa is about a foot tall. And it’s pretty much what I expected.
When Candy got home form work, we headed out on a mission of bibliocal proportions. Our first stop was at a Half Price Books, where Candy found a few books to add to her overwhelming collection 
From there we made our way to Book People where we attended a reading/Q&A/book signing that featured Cory Doctorow. I had a very good time, and got my copies of Little Brother, For the Win and The New Space Opera 2 signed. Cory is a super nice guy! A week or so before the signing, I emailed him with a noobish question (if he was only signing his new book, or older ones as well) and he responded really fast, and wittily. During the Q&A someone asked him “Besides your work, who else should I be reading?” He answered the question with a list of about four or five authors, that I had not heard of, and unfortunately forgot. That is, until I emailed him this morning, and got a wonderfully prompt (within minutes) response listing:
Kathe Koja’s forthcoming UNDER THE POPPY 
Jo Walton’s forthcoming AMONG OTHERS
Mary Robinette Kowal’s SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY
Clay Shirky’s forthcoming COGNITIVE SURPLES
Which I will be adding to my wish list.
After the signing, Candy drove us to her “Happy Place”, Half Price Books, which again was a bust for me but Candy managed to find a few more books. After that we had a late dinner at Chuy’s. All in all the whole night was a lot of fun for me, I got to be a fan boy and had some delicious Mexican food, all the while in the company of my excellent wife 
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