Laurabelle’s Blog

I've used Opera in the past, but I was not completely won over. Partly it was the advertising; mostly I was just happy with whatever I was using at the time (probably Firefox in one of its previous incarnations as Phoenix or Firebird). Now that Opera is free-as-in-beer, I've decided to give The Other Proprietary Browser [...]

The first line of my current braille transcription assignment (Colder Than Ice by David Patneaude, chapters 2 and 3):
Two of you? Ms. Murphy, young and dark-haired, met them at the classroom door, wearing a smile.

Is it just me, or does that read more like schoolteacher porn than a kids’ book? Bad choice of phrase, perhaps.

Dreams are funny things. Most of the time they don't mean anything, but sometimes they do. My mother knows that when she starts dreaming about going to the bathroom (for example, she's at a party and all the women start leaving for the bathroom, one after another) she knows it's time to wake up. That [...]