And not a moment too soon. And look, there are chocolate “manekineko”s, too! (Forgive me the “s”…I don’t know how the plural of the word is correctly formed.)
“Soople is [a word in] an early English dialect, which means ‘to soften, make supple’. “That’s exactly what I envisioned for this site ; a site that softens all the…
When I read this the first time, I shook my head quite hard: I thought I was hallucinating. “…the Joyce estate has informed the Irish government that it intends to…
Yes, you heard me right. My only complaint: it’s not nearly long enough. (Uh, maybe I should rephrase that…)(Anyway, thanks once more to BoingBoing.)
It’s been time to build Peter a new desktop computer for a while now. He’s been complaining that his old video card installed in his computer, “George”, wasn’t running games…
There had to be a connection between two of the best things in the world… “Princeton physicist Paul Chaikin’s passion for M&M candies was so well known that his students…
My screen agent’s gorgeous young Weimaraner bitch, Ch. Dakotaridge Carousel’s Ola Lola!, is competing today at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York. I’m so excited! Miss Lola is…
So Peter is home wrestling with the newly-installed satellite broadband (we can’t get ground-based ADSL: we’re just a smidgen too far away from the local phone exchange) and I’m sitting…
Oh, I forgot to mention this — I was e-mailed about it some weeks back, but it got buried under work. The two terms which appear nowhere else together on…
Last year I went to the mountains to write, and it snowed for nearly a week without stopping. I said to Peter, “This year I’ll go somewhere it won’t snow.”…
This is a blog about Buying Stuff. Especially women’s clothes. If you’re not into that kind of thing, Look Away Now. (Doubtless we will return to our relentlessly Professional/Scientific mode…
…They make my brains hurt, some of them. “…For instance, after science standards were changed in Kansas, a physics teacher was not allowed to teach the big-bang theory. A chemistry…
It is a gorgeous day here, sunny and fine…the blue sky being a harbinger (as is so often the case in this neighborhood) of chilly weather in Brugge later this…
Or, more properly, “Brugge.” This is a Vlaamse-speaking area: while you can speak French here, it’s probably politer to default to Flemish. (English is always accepted, almost gratefully, as an…
We’re running down the Rhine valley under a blurry grey sky that tells me it’s going to be snowing soon. It was snowing in Köln this morning, if the weather…
Well, not a whole day. P. and I went into Dublin yesterday evening to see Return of the King, then afterwards ran into an old fannish acquaintance and had a…
Eric Berne, founder of transactional analysis and generally interesting person (and a serious user of the Stith Thompson Motif Index and expert on fairy tales, but that’s another story entirely…)…
It’s always strange when I go away to work. One of the things I find hard to deal with (in the abstract) is the idea that the presence of another…
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“President Bush next week will announce a plan to send humans back to the moon early in the next decade as part of a sweeping, new NASA agenda that could…
…A little belatedly. Even through the holiday period, work has had to continue on some projects, and everything else has been getting a little behind, particularly blogging. But this goes…
Oh dear. Once upon a time, long ago, when Peter and I were courting, the US bombed Libya. As a result, US air travel to Europe fell off big time.…
…A long hiatus between that last post and this one. I’ve been nose-deep in Wizards at War, while also running over to Geneva to take care of some business (and…
Or maybe I’m just indulging in wishful thinking. Of course snow causes all kinds of trouble…but I wish I were in New York right now. Or rather, that I was…