I Have Nothing To Say, And I Am Saying It
October 30th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Music |
And that is blogging.
Go Away…Battlestar Galactica Is On
October 27th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Entertainment |
Really. Don’t talk to me now. Shhhhh. The Best Show On Television is on.
Googlebombing the Election
October 24th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Politics |
As per the suggestion on MyDD. Running a blog? Do your part and post the list too.
Waits Video
October 21st, 2006 | 0 Comments | Music |
Thanks to Driftglass for posting this, well worth a view. Pretty good audio for a YouTube production, too.
The Mission Song
October 19th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books |
I just finished John le Carre’s latest, The Mission Song. Let’s say, three stars, shall we? The tale of an African/British man gifted at interpeting. He’s expert at a wide range of central African dialects and enlisted by the British spy service. Even though a British subject, and pretty well mainstream, he still holds a sentimental […]
Welcome to Fantasyland
October 19th, 2006 | 1 Comment | Comedy, Politics |
Having grown up in Ohio, I still take interest to the goings on out there. This electoral season is needless to say an interesting one, as sixteen or so years of near-total Republican control over state politics seems to be drawing to a close.
Which brings me to a trip to Fantasyland.
“I can’t believe I just did that … Oh, man.”">“I can’t believe I just did that … Oh, man.”
October 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Art |
It’s funny but not-at-all-funny at the same time. Casino owner Steve Wynn was doing a presentation on his very famous Picasso painting, “Le Rêve,” before it was auctioned and got a little carried away. The painting was expected to fetch around $140 million. But Steve has a eye disease affecting his peripheral vision, and was a little closer to the painting than he thought.
My Contribution To Literary Scholarship
October 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Books |
Over at the Cormac McCarthy Society, the good old boys are hashing over the use of the numbers 1:17 in McCarthy’s last two books. In “The Road,” it’s when the clocks stop. In “No Country For Old Men,” it shows up a few times, as the time on the monstrous killer’s dashboard clock, and as “117,” […]
Rounded CSS Boxes Made Easy
October 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments | Tech Stuff |
There are a lot of resources out there for doing this, but most of the ones I tried just gave me a headache. NeuroticWeb has put up a tool that makes it simple. Enter your foreground and background colors, and it not only gives you the correct (and simple!) HTML+CSS, it generates five little GIF […]
Solar Photography
October 13th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Science, Tech Stuff |
Here’s a photo of the sun, taken by the Super-Kamiokande observatory in Japan. A very unusual photo, not by natural light, infrared or ultraviolet. By neutrino emissions. What’s more, it was taken at night. How do you take a photo of the sun at night? Through the Earth…
Guilty Pleasures
October 12th, 2006 | 2 Comments | Entertainment |
I’ve always looked down my nose at “reality TV,” and to a certain extent TV in general. But I have a confession to make.
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