One of those great dawns — cloudless, peach-colored, pellucid. (See the Geoclock image over on the right for how dawn looked from above Ireland today. The one underneath it is…
Peter is one of a number of administrators over on NetSword, a site and discussion forum dedicated to, you guessed it, swords. Every now and then I hear him howling…
Or so I believe. Sorry for the confusion. And thanks to Anita for the heads-up.
Normally I would consider the words “McDonalds” and “upmarket” in the same phrase to constitute the most basic kind of oxymoron. Oh well…maybe I just don’t have enough caffeine in…
I’ve republished the archives in “monthly” format. Still trying to figure out what to do about permalinks. Please bear with me…
Shame on me. Take a look at their take on media coverage of the war. I particularly like the article “U.S. Forms Its Own U.N.” Meanwhile, something peculiar is going…
…and the honor they get in their home country after they’re safely dead, is here. But there are some oddities. Among them: plainly the writer hasn’t been here for a…
EXT. FRONT YARD, MORNING — THE FISHPOND THE COUNT One, two, three golden orfe! One, two, three shubunkin! (SFX: SINISTER ORGAN STING) THE COUNT (CONT’D) Bwahahahahahahaaaa! DIANE One cat, one,…
Yesterday Peter and I were out running some errands in the nearest shopping town (as usual, these errands centered mostly around cat food) when we ran into Brian, an acquaintance…
As work continues on the fishpond, Beemer has taken to spending more and more of her time, both by day and night, staring into the water at the fish. There…
“As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some…
…”the reality network.” Also: “There’s a vacant house right around the corner from here. We put some cameras in it, just in case something interesting happens. We don’t guarantee anything,…
…at part of the cover sketch for the 20th anniversary edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard. The artist, Greg Swearingen, will be doing the “digest” edition covers…
Guys, I didn’t say I had no English fandom! I know you’re out there. But my royalty statements from Corgi (such as they were) suggest strongly that all the books…
Hmm. Note to self: this might be fun to go to, depending on (a) whether work permits and (b) which side of the Atlantic we’re on at that point; and…
The Merlin Conspiracy. …”But although she makes no accusations of plagiarism, she finds it annoying that children, who ‘never look at publication dates’, think she might have copied Rowling.” (wry…
Well, okay, just one of them. “[My daughter’s] been sending him more treats than me since we arrived.”
What household doesn’t need one of these?
Via BoingBoing: “French’s mustard denies French connection.” The weirdest sentence in this article (assuming it’s true): “Last week, Air Force One replaced ‘French toast’ with ‘Freedom toast’ on its menu.”…
This from the people at Scriptorium: “Just a quick note to all our newsletter readers about an alarming font phenomenon we stumbled on recently. This discovery raises some serious concerns…
This entry is just a test of the “Blogbar” utility, a toolbar-based Blogger window for IE. And it works. Meanwhile, is it just me, or is Blogger behaving strangely this…
Meaning that this may make less sense than usual, or none. I have a few glasses of wine in me, which can cause me to become goofy. We were out…
One of the ingredients of “Unholy Guacamole”, courtesy of the HalfBakery. (Best comment on this, from “snarfyguy”: “I was at a Trader Joe’s in Boston last weekend where I saw…
Via Major Fun’s Daily Briefings: SINGLECELL and DOUBLECELL, two “volumes” of interactive art / stuff.