CGHS Library

Funny Travelogues (fiction and non)

Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 917.404 BRY

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh: Adventure is a Risky Business. By Tim Cahill. 904 CAH

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States. By Dave Barry. 817 BAR  Barry, a now-retired humor columnist, delivers his version of American history. This is not your normal history book: Barry writes a warped and funny (but not untrue) commentary on our history.

Going Bovine. By Libba Bray. FIC BRA  In this novel, Cameron, a 16-year-old slacker and pothead, is diagnosed with mad-cow disease. While in the hospital, he befriends a Mexican American hypochondriac dwarf named Gonzo. Together, the two of them embark on a strange and futile quest, rivaling that of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

A Long Way from Chicago. By Richard Peck. FIC PEC  In this novel set in the 1930s, Joe and Mary Alice Dowdel visit their grandmother in a quaint town in Illinois. But Grandma Dowdel's life is so different from what Joe and Mary Alice are used to in Chicago, she might as well live on the moon. Grandma Dowdel finds all kinds of hilarious trouble to occupy her time while making ends meet.

Innocent or Inappropriate

A Thin Line

 

  

 

Drawing the Line

Your mobile, IM, and online accounts are all a part of you. When someone you're dating is controlling, disrespecting, or pressuring you in those spaces, draw the line.

 

 

Dinosaur Chunks and Cheese

 Serves 1

·          2 tortillas

·          1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

·          1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

·          6 Tyson Dinosaur Fun Nuggets

·          Skillet/ quesadilla maker

·          butter

Heat up the chicken in either the microwave or oven. Cut the cooked chicken into little pieces. Warm up the skillet or quesadilla maker. Put one tortilla into the skillet and add cheddar cheese evenly with a centimeter left uncheesed around the edge of tortilla. Add dino limbs, chunks, and pieces evenly. Add mozzarella in the same manner. Place 2^nd tortilla on top and cook.

Skillet version should be flipped when golden or something.

Mary Alsobrooks

Tactical Arena Online

 

Tactical arena online is a combination of chess and magic for two players. Normal chess is not geeky enough, so they ramped it up. Players don’t have to just kill the cleric; they have to kill the entire opposing side.  It takes maybe thirty to forty minutes to complete a game. There are all these floors and all these characters.  You get to situate your people however you want. It's chess in that it’s played turn by turn, and you have people and options to move, and then you get an attack. Each character has different attacks. 

You can’t block magic; you can never block magic!

Timothy Frese and Zak Wohlschlegel

In Sync

Anybody who works on more than one computer and has been frustrated by the inevitable fact that whatever you want to work on is on the OTHER computer will want to look at David Pogue's article on Microsoft's Free Sync Service. It works on both PC and Mac platforms and looks very, very good, though I have not tried it yet.

David Pogue is usually fairly sensible so I tend to trust his recommendation. The kind of syncing that I don't have to think about is what I have been searching for lo, these many years, and it sounds more reliable than using some third party backup service. Sure, the third party service usually works fairly well, but it sometimes takes forever to do, depending on how robust the network is at the time, and I still have to think about it too much. I don't want to have to think about this AT ALL. I just want my stuff to be there when I want to work on it. (MHouse)

Hubble 3D

In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, an image of a dying star forming the delicate shape of a celestial butterfly, referred to as a Butterfly Nebula, is shown in the film "Hubble 3D." (AP Photo/Warner Bros.)

F. Scott

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.  

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Alice in Wonderland FIC CAR

The book has been around since 1865, and it is still the best. 
 
(Concept by Sarah Hornung; Editing by Zak Wohlschlegel)