Well, the foot’s not broken. But after seeing what happened to Columbia….my heart. Definitely that. I was writing My Enemy, My Ally when Challenger went down. Now I’m finishing The…
From an undisclosed location… (afterthought: snort) What am I, Dick Cheney? (Perish, O perish the thought.) I am in Leukerbad, and I cannot find the apostrophe. I am finishing the…
Hmmm. An interesting take on “Desert Storm II”: http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml
Okay, here’s the Ugly Word for today: “architected”!! “…Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney said Microsoft’s mobile software needs work, adding that Research in Motion does a better job of linking users…
My apologies, everybody…I didn’t realize that the Irish Times entry below was premium content. (mutter) Anyway, here’s something everybody can get at that’s kind of neat. Kartoo.com is a search…
The city of Dublin has just rolled out a service that allows you to pay for parking (at designated meter) by using your cellphone. A comment on this from Kevin…
An interesting article here on “The Disruptive Web”. Fascinating stuff… Meanwhile, it still hasn’t snowed. Something threw off Met Eireann’s forecasts pretty conclusively, this week: I think it was that…
Every now and then, a particular word strikes me as ugly, or redundant, or useless, or sometimes all three, and then I get cranky for a day or so. The…
(sigh) No blizzard. They promised us a blizzard…and all we’re likely to get now is snow showers. Feh.
This one ought to go in the “Dumb Perp Stories” section under “Self-Referential Perpetrations”: Candy trail leads to suspect
From CBC Radio’s Dead Dog Cafe: Get your own Indian name. (“Red Indian”, as Peter would say. None of your Native [North] American stuff here.) It turns me into “Celia…
I didn’t realize that this wonderful document could be found online. It’s an interesting read at any time (and sometimes a little disturbing…), but at the year’s turn, as the…
In this morning’s Irish Times, a front-page image: “The Brotherhood of the Turkey celebrating its favourite fowl in Licques, northern France, yesterday.” …Sigh. Normally this would strike me as silly-season…
Girl captures, hogties intruder Heh heh.
Okay, now I’ve seen everything. Ann Coulter has written a children’s book. …Okay, it’s satire. Fine. I still need to go bake some more bread now. …Oh, I found that…
Ireland is not terribly big on rye bread…at least not the kind I grew up with in the New York suburbs. I still remember the sour bite of the Pepperidge…
I’m gearing up for an online chat with the troops from the Young Wizards website’s discussion forum this evening (7 PM EST if you feel like turning up: you’re going…
In the “I’m Having A Short Fuse Day” department: I’m getting really tired of the way the announcers on Cartoon Network UK pronounce “Samurai”. Or mispronounce it. (mutter) Oh well.…
The house is in bedlam at the moment. The measuring-every-window-for-venetian-blinds people are coming tomorrow: the kitchen floor is littered with beech leaves blown in every time the door opens, and…
A black Captain America. Well, why the heck not? We don’t have enough black superheroes, if you ask me. Meanwhile, in other news: Runaway black hole headed our way! You…
Wow. (For more details, see: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html
So, a report on the last entry’s “to do” list. Medically-oriented readers: What the heck has happened to chlortetracycline as a veterinary drug? Or even oxytetracycline? When I was still…
We’re having one of those Irish Weather mornings: by this I mean, you wait five minutes and the weather does something else. This morning has been unusually varied even by…
In the “So Relieved To Hear It” department: From the Amazon.com page regarding “Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses”: “Customers who shopped for this item also wear: Clean Underwear from Amazon’s Gap…