I can tell it's spring by the bast quantities of fertilizer around the office complex. That's a stench that manages to surprise me every March.

Today, my sister's Facebook profile contains a quote attributed to "E-Dawg (aka Emerson)". I'm pleased that she knows about Ralph Waldo; it means she's definitely learning something in college, beyond ( Read more... )

We talk a lot about how strange it is that so many people in our group have multiple odd connections with each other. Even by our standards, though, the number and variety of connections I learned of during an expedition to my brother's girlfriend (H)'s parents' place is unsettling:

• My grandmother grew in a small town. Living next door? The ( Read more... )

What else did the Ramones do that was similarly enjoyable to "I Wanna Be Sedated"?

Maybe four of you will understand why this is the highlight of my day:

Pushing Daisies (last week's episode, but I've been busy).
Kristin Chenoweth. Singing "Birdhouse in Your Soul".

If one has boiled hot dogs, and forgets to turn the stove off before sitting down to eat, there will be no olfactory warning until the hot dog broth has reduced to a disgusting state.

I've really got to get back to looking over all the candidates in an election earlier than the night before the electionNot too bad this time. Out of five races, there are two where I feel decent about the person I'm voting for. Only one (Council district 9-1) where I think that writing myself in is better than voting for anyone on the ballot, ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I played cricket. I admittedly wasn't playing with great players, but it seemed a lot easier to hit the ball (and make it go somewhere useful) than in baseball/softball. At least, when I was batting against anyone who had bowled before; against Americans, I couldn't do much of anything except fail to get out of the way of wild balls. ( Read more... )

Been four weeks since my last entry, again. In that time, I've:

• Been to Atlanta, for a much better time at Dragon*ConDarkConfrontation than last year (which is very good, since last year was a bad enough experience that I was almost ready to give up on running the game, in the middle of a game). Pictures are up, though they still need captions.
• ( Read more... )

Ten years from today will be the first total solar eclipse in the continental US that most of us will have the opportunity to see (there having been no way for most of us to get to Montana in 1979). It will cut a nice wide swath of totality, from the Oregon coast south of Portland, angling southerly by the time it hits the Nebraska/Kansas/Missouri ( Read more... )

Unlike last week, tonight I'm capable of looking at tangentially work-related things while not actually working, so I've uploaded pictures from Toronto. Considering that these are some of the first shots I've ever taken with a serious camera, I'm very pleased with how they turned out (though I have of course omitted some blurrier ones). I'm ( Read more... )