Sick toddlers are never convenient, but there are elements of the experience that just might align in a way to reduce the suffering – not for them, no, they are going to be lying around in a swirling stupor of fever and bodily fluids no matter what, but at least the parents can find a [...]
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James Lileks is a great read each day, but this is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a long time. Check out the Gallery of Regrettable Foods. My two favorites so far are “Meat! Meat! Meat!” and “Knox Gelatin.”
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From time to time I’m going to post links to things that might not warrant a lot of comment, but are cool enough to be seen by others. Enjoy.
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I’d cut this by about a minute or so, but it’s still worth watching.
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Bill Hobbs, a Tennessee blogger, has been fired for blogging. During the Cartoon Frenzy, Hobbs posted a stick figure drawing of Muhammad with a bomb on his blog, as an expression of disgust for what was happening over in Europe. And now he’s lost his job. This is the type of thing that was on [...]
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I picked up the Charles Stross book, noted above, and read that Stross is British….go figure.
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It seems that most good science fiction, lately, is coming from the United Kingdom/Australia. Iain Banks, Richard Morgan, Peter F. Hamilton, Allaister Reynolds, Neal Asher and others seem to be churning out brilliant, imaginative work with surprising consistency. Lately, just knowing that an author is British is enough to get me to take a close [...]
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I’ve established a Flickr account here for future picture uploads. Consider this as general notification.
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Warmth. It gets a late start each day, but ultimately the spring warmth chases away the remnants of winter, leaving your morning coat inappropriate for the late afternoon. This is the season of Many Clothes Changes, as we straddle our wardrobes – cycling the warm weather stuff out of storage, but not quite ready to [...]
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Weekends used to be about wild fun. It was a time to run around and do things. Not that I was ever the party sort, but the weekend represented a wild abandon, should I chose to be wild and abandoning. I didn’t, but the potential was there, and that was enough for me. Now, with [...]
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Many years ago, I was a stupid teenager. I knew everything. Ronald Reagan was a scary old guy who endangered the world. The Soviet Union were led by reasonable people. And I clung to a gloomy pessimism that suggested I was unlikely to see my thirtieth birthday before the world was incinerated in nuclear fire. [...]
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Dan Simmons is one of the finest writers alive today. This little short story is essential reading.
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Old Man’s War is the first novel by John Scalzi. If you’ve spent any time on Blogs, you’ve probably ran into reviews and recommendations. Glenn Reynolds, Stephen Greene, and many others have plugged it, so I figured I’d give it a go. If you are familiar with Starship Troopers or The Forever War, then you’ll [...]
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It’s been a long/short week. One of those stutter-step weeks that usually appears in bad horror movies or good nightmares. Certain moments in my week seem to reoccur every few minutes – like waking up, arriving at work, or going to bed. I find myself walking into my cube in the morning, certain that I [...]
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A Possible Past We’re rolling over the mountains of Tennessee and we’re on top of the world. I’m sure residents of the Rockies will smirk, but these are the highest mountains I’ve ever personally experienced. My childhood doesn’t provide much context to this part of the country, since our trips to West Virginia never took [...]
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Just a grab bag of pictures without annotations. If you are a heavy metal fan, you’ll know what you are looking at. If not, just admire them… The high res photos are just too detailed to post, so sorry about the lack of zoomable detail.
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A T28 American Super-Heavy Assault Tank. Check out the dual tracks! Ninety five tons with 12″ of armor. I never even knew this thing existed. Click to enlarge. More later…
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A short post for the night. We chewed through 544 miles of pavement today, and we can feel it. Tomorrow brings a 600+ mile marathon in seperate cars with no one to spell us for breaks. I have serious doubts about making it all the way back to Toledo in one go, but we my [...]
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It is late. Friday night, just south of Toledo and the storm is hovering over the interstate. Bright bursts of lightning flare in the clouds, painting the sky with a fluorescent white, shaded to various intensities of gray by the cloud layers. The rain hasn’t started yet, but it is promised. My wife are I [...]
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I’m blogging from a Holiday Inn Express just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. My wife and I are heading down to North Carolina to pick up a car I’ve purchased from my Uncle, who runs a used lot in Asheville. I have to say it is nice to have these kind of connections in an industry [...]
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