…did you know the boys were doing live movie critique “From the Balcony” for Movies.com? Just a thought.
Or something like that. A story issued by financial news agency AFX on Sunday…claimed Narnia had walked out of the World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong because it was…
From Publisher’s Lunch: 2006 is already looking a lot like 2000 again. At January’s big Consumer Electronics show, Sony is expected to unveil a US version of their e-book reader…
Imported with such pleasure from Property of a Lady: What’s this empire coming to? Now they want us to stop greeting people with “Io Saturnalia! “We have all these different…
Once upon a time there was a nurse (not this post’s writer), and she had a fabulous eggnog recipe. Here it is.
Got a Christmas card this morning from my old housemate Theresa (aka T.R.), who’s working in Kosovo at the moment. I was more interested in the card than in the…
“Speaking of dancing chibis…” (As one does.) 🙂
For those who might be interested, we’ve now got a Palm (.pdb) version of the book available for purchase and download. There’s a separate button for it in the right-hand…
…Yet more tea on the keyboard. I really should bring the paper towels in here: it’s plainly going to be one of those days. In Texas we made two archangels…
It’s hard to keep it in your mouth sometimes. Especially when reading stuff like this: Muscle: In a small number of tested cases (84%) PANEXA was found to cause abdominal…
No, seriously. From the package instructions: They can be fed year round straight from the pack or re-hydrated by soaking them in warm water for 15 minutes or until soft.…
The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New…
Re comments from yesterday: Speaking of theology, did you know that you’ve been accused of committing a heresy so ancient that it was condemned by Augustine? Let’s see, can I…
So here’s one for you, people: “sword-of-xanten antichrist” What? What?? Dear Seeking Person: You are very confused. I guarantee you won’t find whatever you’re looking for here. Go somewhere else.…
“I’m impatient with genre as a label of quality. But if we could stop critics being ignorant, genre would be interesting.” If! …If C. S. Lewis is my master, U.…
Just so the UK readership knows: Channel 4 will be airing Sword of Xanten — that’s the title they gave the feature version of Ring of the Nibelungs — on…
By email. And anonymously. I swear, whoever did this, I’ll track you down and make your life annoying somehow. (sigh) But doubtless this is the Universe getting back at me…
Speaking of cheese, I just got a spam email with the subject heading Careless cheddar. What, guilty cheese has got no rhythm? Heh.
First of all, thanks! 🙂 Thanks also to those of you who let me know how small the page size was. I wasn’t entirely clear that the thing was formatted…
Folks…thanks so much for all your responses. (There have been about two hundred so far.) I am utterly blown away by the willingness to lay out cash for something that…
It hasn’t been the best ten days or so. I’ve spent most of it codeined out of my mind in attempts to deal with the pain while the antibiotics deal…
Never leave your unit in a freezer, convection oven, or cyclotron unless the Cell Phone function is set to END CHARGING (U symbol; Ü symbol on German-language units). …To operate…
Neal Stephenson is just a wow. From the interview on Slashdot: (Fight 1 of The Three Fights of Stephenson and Gibson:) I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books…
But the line’s still worth repeating: “Daleks do not do porn.”