"After a week of soaking in the Delta sun, Jeff and I came home to a yard full of newly molted 13-year cicadas. Big, red-eyed bugs who crawl out of the ground to shed their skin on trees, eat and make babies with the first cicada who’ll have them ( Read more... )

I am becoming accustomed to being laughed at ( Read more... )

A hot pea just shot straight onto my eyebrow. Ow, steamy hot goodness. That was a little more excitement than I wanted with my dinner.

Have an unexpected monkey video.

I've decided to work towards SCA heavy fighting. I've been wanting to do it for a long time, but money and time and the right group never seem to line up. Denmark has a group, sort of. An incipient shire. But I might also be able to make the occasional event in Sweden or Finland (who seems to have a lot of events for some reason ( Read more... )

Re-watching the series "Spooks" and I'm again thrown off balance by the "Americans" in the show. I think the main CIA dude is a British actor, but he sounds like a Russian trying to sound like an American. Really, really awful, until I try, momentarily to sound British, and then I have to concede that their American dude could be worse. But ( Read more... )

Is the Cubox cool, or what? Almost as cool as raspberry pi.

I just thought of another stocking stuffer, posting it here in case anyone else can use the idea. My boyfriend enjoys photography, and he has a Canon. Something about the viewfinder makes it difficult for him to "level" his pictures. Amazon has a lot of hot shoe levels for around $5 or $6. I have a free Prime student account with Amazon, so ( Read more... )

Placeholder: I desperately need to do a list of most over-hyped food blogs. Just did a long list of food food blogs for someone else, now I must post about bad ones. Bad tejolote, no biscuit until AFTER final and paper are turned in.

From the review of a book I was looking at, "The data in these tables is very interesting for specialist readers, but it will probably induce death-by-statistics for general readers."