Greetings to you all, from the dog days of August ( Read more... )

Boy, it's been a while since I've said that. Ah, memories ( Read more... )

Night is the time for introspection ( Read more... )

Is it possible to get drunk on sunshine? (I'll avoid making the obvious joke ( Read more... )

I learned this afternoon (via Wikipedia, of course) that former World Chess Champion Vasily Smyslov died today at the age of 89. I don't really know too much about the man, but I thought I would pay my respects here with a few remarks ( Read more... )

(I am going to try and resist the urge to do a hodgepodge post today, and see if I can keep it focused on one topic. Here goes ( Read more... )

This will be either my last post of February or my first post of March, depending on how long it takes me to write it up. (Bets on the latter are probably the smart money ( Read more... )

The other day my mom asked me to identify a musical snippet she'd heard in a movie that was airing on Turner Classic Movies. I didn't know the name right off the bat, and early attempts to brute-force a solution using the GoogleTubes crapped out. So I went over to the piano and started tinkering with the tune and flipping through a few songbooks ( Read more... )

Or so they tell me ( Read more... )

It is snowing tonight ( Read more... )