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Crunch
We were in a car accident today. Someone hit us as we were driving through the parking lot behind J's work. They backed out of their parking space just as we were behind them, not seeing us, and trashed the two passenger-side door panels.
Fortunately, there was a policeman present when the accident occurred. He's the one who hit us.
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Unsmoked pulled-pork barbecue
Intended dinner time: 6:30 pm. Food into oven: 1:30 pm. I'm making pulled pork for the first time, oven-roasted rather than smoked because of lack of equipment. We'll see how it turns out.
The project was inspired by a gift from a friend of mine. She owns Big Guy's Custom Barbecue, a highly-regarded barbecue concession at AT&T Park (where the ( Read more... ) -
Lyrics meme, revisited
Another short dip into the theme meme: name the artist and title, given these snippets of lyrics. Only one correct guess per person, please, to give everybody a chance. Some of these are fairly obscure, but not all. (And remember, kids; using Google is cheating even if you work there!)
Final update: unguessed lyrics bolded and the citation ( Read more... ) -
I can name that song in ONE LETTER
Following nothings's lead, paulobrian gave me the letter V and memed me to name my favorite ten songs beginning with that letter. And, uh, well, here are my current favorite ten songs that start with V. Well, four, actually - that is all that I could think of that I know and like. (Curse you, Paul!) [* More! storme reminded me of some; thanks!] [* and edited because ( Read more... ) -
Real-world software engineering
My friend Dan is an instructor this semester for a sophomore-level software engineering course, expected to be the students' first encounter with sizeable programming projects. One of the lectures, according to the syllabus, is explicitly supposed to be a sort of exposé of the realities of a career in the field. He solicited contributions from ( Read more... ) -
Regret, by definition, comes too late
Noted SF author and poet John M. Ford died a few days ago. Teresa Nielsen Hayden's weblog Making Light is hosting a memorial thread and a long bibliography of occasional works, but I wanted to call out one piece of Ford's I hadn't seen before, the finest memorial of 9/11/2001 that I've encountered:
"110 Stories"(His poem "Against Entropy" begins ( Read more... ) -
So perish law-breakers
An old home, a bear home, remote from human-haunts,
Wall-girt and weather-warded, where ones wise in woodcraft
Lick into new life, a baby, a bear cub,
Safe among saplings, far in the forest.
Till one comes slyly, girlchild, goldilocks....
Three Bears Norse. Tee hee!
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