There's a tuxedo-colored cat on Meacham Street, who I first met several months ago. He's medium-sized, but in the genre of "short-haired and solidly-built" rather than "long-haired and secretly wispy under all that hair". With the slightest invitation, he will jump into your lap and purr ( Read more... )

Yesterday's second round of air combat went better than the first. This round was a historical 1-on-1 engagement from the Vietnam War. I had the right idea for what to do with my 'plane, but I didn't exercise quite enough patience to execute the tactic correctly. I scored enough points to pull me out of dead last for the tournament. mjperson did well ( Read more... )

Day 2 at Origins. Woke up feeling kinda draggy, for obvious reasons ( Read more... )

Starflt and I went to Wright-Patterson AFB to see the Air Force Museum. It was excellent. We heard the rain and thunder outside, and thumbed our noses at it, then drove back into Columbus with a grim-looking sky off to one side.

Then, we went to my favorite restaurant in all of Columbus, The Japanese Steak House, with surakofb5 and mjperson. Mmmm ( Read more... )

A while back, dpolicar mused on the subject of the whole "liberals hate America" myth. It has taken me a while to think of a useful contribution to the question, especially given that he already had 50+ comments before I saw the post. Those comments went over much of the ground that I might consider covering ( Read more... )

Today, a guy came by and asked us if we could add hours to the day. He's a guy we like, and he works hard (hence his question), so we wanted to help him out. And it's not like half of the questions that come by our desks actually make more sense than that. I told him that his best bet was to inflate the planet some, because conservation of ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the airport for several hours...I really have nothing else to do but post. :)

( The miracle of Eggs )

New track for the Hippocratic Oath CD: Storm Warning. This is the music that's playing when the Outworlders are gathering at the Farseer's place on Pierogi (in the pilot episode), and also later when they're on the Orbital, seeing the Tarn Decider fleet come in, and Jayla is punching the distress beacon. The strident violin is Jayla, and the ( Read more... )

Anyone in the Boston area who's thinking of going to Origins this year, now may be a good time to scream and leap. I got tickets from BOS->CMH, leaving July 4th, returning July 8th, at reasonable times, for $98 plus taxes/fees, adding up to $134.

This has been a public service announcement.

Well, thank god our so-called leadership is all over this massive bomb conspiracy. I was feeling worried there for a bit that the foul perpetrators behind this scheme to terrify our fair city would not get what's coming to them. But the news that one of those responsible may be deported back to his native Belorussia fills me with confidence that ( Read more... )