Nobody famous, just “some guy” on Reddit, and I have no idea who the “someone” who “once said” it might be… Someone once said that infantile societies value warriors, adolescent societies value entertainers, and mature societies value teachers. I hope our society is given a chance to mature.

I’d never seen this (anonymous) poem before, but after having tried to read it aloud and having to pause a couple of times, I have new respect for anyone who’s trying to learn this mess as a second language… I take it you already know, Of tough and bough and cough and dough. Others may […]

What has been seen, can never be un-seen. I was listening to some folk music played on a nyckelharpa yesterday, and as it played, I happened to look over at the track name for one particular piece, called, “Randig kjortel”. I know that randig means striped, or streaked, or even brindled (or somehow, there is […]

I’d only just got out of bed this AM when Lars sent me an MSN message that said, “GOOOD MOOOOORNING USA!” He doesn’t usually shout at me, but what he wanted to tell me today was really pretty cool. He sent me a link to something called Simplify Media; he’d discovered it as an iPhone […]

When I forget that I installed a Nautilus script and that is how I’ve been magically uploading files to my FTP server without having to start gFTP, it’s in my /home in Software, and it’s called File_2_FTP. The gzipped copy in there obviously doesn’t have my user information entered, and there is a secure version […]

For the last fucking time, it’s catalpa. Not catawba, not catoba, not ca-anything else…CA-FUCKING-TALPA. Catalpa speciosa, most likely, but it’s never, ever anything but catalpa. Jesus Christ.

I came across a game about guessing accents. You listen to a person read two lines from a Kipling poem, then you’re presented with a list of choices and have to guess the country. For some, you get bonus points for guessing (and you betcha I was guessing) the city. There was one, however, that […]

I’m trying to find the “perfect” music manager for me. I use Audacity for just playing a file, but it handles playlists like Winamp 2.x (to be fair, Audacity is forked from XMMS, which is a Winamp clone), and it’s a bit clumsy to not have smart playlists, plus it takes a dog’s age to […]

So basically, I’m famous. Okay, I’m not, but yesterday, I did get a FlickrMail request from a very nice lady to use one of my katydid photos. :: awesome katydid photo I just love the photos you took of the Katydid (called Often heard, seldom seen). I work with Raleigh Parks and Recreation and am […]

At some point, litigious must become downright goddamned retarded. Why else would my chunky peanut butter, clearly labelled “peanut butter”, made from peanuts, containing large chunks of peanuts, and with peanuts listed as the first ingredient bear the bold-texted warning…. WTF? I weep for the demise of common-fucking-sense, since it’s obviously become an anomaly amongst […]