Cough Cough Sniffle
I seem to have come down with a cold. (Not a surprise, considering where I work.)
I’m going home soon to curl up on the sofa with hot tea and a good book. So don’t be expecting anything profound until my head clears.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Freedom and Necessity
Freedom & Necessity (1997) Steven Brust and Emma Bull
Delving back into Brust section of my bookshelves, I came back with Freedom and Necessity, a book that I remember as complicated, although good. And since I remembered nothing of the plot, I figured it was a good candidate for re-reading.
I have to admit that as much [...]
Friday, February 25, 2005
Death Comes as the End
I found out today that someone I graduated from high school with died earlier this month.
I had only 42 people in my graduating class. It was a Catholic high school and we were the next to last graduating class. Mismanagement is probably the primary reason the school closed, at least that’s how it felt at [...]
Designing
In my on-going effort to learn more about CSS, I’ve redesigned the main page of my site.
I’ll probably be redesigning other pages in the site over the next several weeks, but you have to start somewhere.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Pull the Lever…
…All the Other Rats are Doing It
Quiz Time!
Interesting that I’m as likely to become Republican as I am Nazi.
(more…)
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Stupid Computers
There’s nothing like trying to learn something by yourself to make you feel like an absolute idiot.
And so as a reprieve from idiocy….
The Infinite Cat Project: Cats, looking at cats, looking at cats…
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr. I have to admit that everytime I hear the name Aaron Burr, I immediately think of the [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
More Reasons to Love Science
First, science is fun.
Second, because of places like this.
Monday, February 21, 2005
Today
Happy Birthday Erin!
Sunday, February 20, 2005
The Phoenix Guards & Five Hundred Years After
The Phoenix Guards (1991) & Five Hundred Years After (1994) Steven Brust
Sometimes you just need to read a book that you know is going to make you happy. When those times come upon me, I frequently read Steven Brust.
The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After are two of the ‘Khaavren Romances’ centered around Khaavren [...]
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Grrrr….
$#&$&@ stinkin’ spammers…
Due to the high amount of comment spam I’ve been getting, and the fact that Blacklist doesn’t seem to be working, currently comments require approval before they’ll appear.
Sorry.
So go ahead and comment, it’ll just take a few hours for the comment to appear. At least until the volumn of comment spam drops, [...]
Friday, February 18, 2005
Referrer Logs
Unlike Pericat, I’m okay with the top items in my referrer logs.
vlad taltos
odd things
plane picture
grass jelly
cirque dreams program
craft corner deathmatch
states admitted to the union
plush germs
stephen hawking iq
bathtub
Oddly enough, I know precisely which pages each request was sent to.
Flagging
So, apropros of nothing in one of Pericat‘s posts, I wondered whether countries other than Canada had flags with plants.
Belize has a tree, although it’s not the focal point
British Indian Ocean Territory has a tree, though I have no idea where they’re located
Lebanon has a nice tree in the center of their flag.
Norfolk Island also [...]
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Enterprising
So, they’ve cancelled “Enterprise.” the last Star Trek show left on the air.
Michael and I have not watched it (he, for lack of access; me, for profound lack of interest) but my mother (who has a framed certificate saying she graduated from Starfleet Academy) hated last season, and pretty much gave up watching. (Though I [...]
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Festival of Ideas
The schedule for this years Festival of Ideas is out. Except for “Ethical Leadership in Business” they all look very interesting. (Though come to think of it, ethical business values may be pure fantasy, so it COULD be interesting at that)
Monday, Feb 21 · Constance Morella
The Marshall Plan: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The Legacy [...]
Today’s Word
I’ve always been rather fond of today’s word.
fey \FAY\ adjective
1 a chiefly Scottish : fated to die : doomed b : marked by a foreboding of death or calamity
2 a: able to see into the future : visionary b : marked by an otherworldly air or attitude c : crazy, touched
3 a: [...]
Monday, February 14, 2005
Far Beyond Normal
Mental illness is infrequently presented well in books and TV, but there is one type of presentation that I’ve found fascinating.
The first time came across it was in the Margaret Weis and http://www.trhickman.com/ series “Death Gate Cycle”, where the wizard Zifnab (Zifnab is what brought this to mind. There’s just something pleasing about the [...]
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Bad Medicine
Teresa, over at Making Light, has just had an unfortunate/horrible/vile mixup with her prescription medication.
I’ve taken various prescription medications for various problems at various times throughout my adulthood (all of which made me glad to have health coverage that paid for prescriptions drugs) and never really thought much about it.
Which is quite odd, [...]
Hot Tea
1 bag Irish Breakfast Tea
1 Clove
Small portion cinnamon stick
Boiling water
Steep 3 to 5 minutes
Remove teabag, clove cinnamon
3 tsp sugar
Cream, to taste
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Friday, February 11, 2005
Non-Sequitur Day
Taking a minute or two to get caught up…
I received e-mail from Howard Chalkley last month, who kindly linked to my book pages. His weblog, where he occasionally talks about books, is hchalkley.blog.
I also discovered that a weblog called Reasonable Liberalism that had linked to me.
From Gina:
Go to: http://mappoint.msn.com/DirectionsFind.aspx
1. In Start and End, pull [...]
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