Oooo! Chance to win an e-reader!

Carl Brandon Society Raffle

From today to November 22nd, 1$ will get you a ticket in the drawing for one of 2 Nooks, 2 Kobos, and 1 Alex Reader.

The money raised goes to the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship which helps send two writers of color to the Clarion workshops. (Clarion and Clarion West)

So, good cause, and chance to win an e-reader.

BTW, Nooks and Kobos work with Overdrive, so if your library subscribes to Overdrive ebooks, you can totally read books for free! (With your library card, of course.) I don't know if the Alex Reader does, but if I had to bet, I'd bet yes.

I personally applaud them for not including a Kindle. For whatever reason they didn't. Boo Kindle!

Anyway, yea, go try to win one!

ETA: Doh! I totally forgot to mention that the e-reader, should you win one, comes preloaded with stories by lots of awesome people! Including nojojojo and shweta_narayan!

Benjamin Franklin on Food

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

"Dine with little, sup with less,
Do better still – sleep supperless."

"A full belly makes a dull brain."

"Eat to live, and not live to eat."

"Three good meals a day is bad living."

That last one is ambiguous. Should you be eating less often or more often than three meals a day?

If this was Franklin's diet plan, I don't think it worked very well. Though he did live to be 84, so clearly he was doing something right.

In other news, Ben Franklin was also a polymath. A word which has become en vogue recently.

What does Ben Franklin have to do with anything? I dunno. I was Googling sayings for no particular reason and happened across these.