I just watched the whole 30 minute interview of Vladimir Putin done by CNN. I think the version we got was edited down to six minutes of sound bites (of course it was–the average American’s attention span is about two minutes), but the whole thing was on Russian television, and put up in three parts […]
I spend a lot of time online. Way too much time, really, but that isn’t my point (really–I do have a point). I don’t live in my mother’s basement, or play WOW long into the night while washing down CheetOs and pizza with Red Bull. I do get outside as often as I can, I […]
Well, so much for the house outside town. I don’t know where the hell the owner thinks (s)he lives (maybe California?), but I do know that he’s not getting that much money for that house…not here. The housing bubble has burst, ladies and gentlemen, and if you own a “pretty nice” house in an almost […]
When a package arrived on Friday, I had a feeling it was something for me, so I deliberately didn’t look at the return address, I just set it beside P’s desk and waited. When he got home, he said I could open it if I wanted, because a “pwrincess birfday” (I am not making that […]
This is Frazzle. I liberated him from some site that I’ve since forgot. I didn’t name him; that is his real name. Frazzle is cute. He looks like I feel most days. I ♥ Frazzle. Is it weird to dream of black widow spiders and exploding NiMH batteries?
I’m all warm and fuzzy inside ’cause I get to be part of the important group now! I’m just like everyone else…I have malware! If I go to www.0scan.com/winscan, I am immediately greeted by this screen: Since I run FF with NoScript, it doesn’t do anything, but if I allow scripts for that page to […]
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 […]