The Battle of Thermopylae has always been an object of fascination for me. It is probably the single most famous last stand in human history, and while the 300 died to the last man, they literally saved the nucleus of what would later become Western Civilization. I’d love to read a treatment of how the [...]
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Whenever we’re in Toledo, we load up on Diet Pepsi and smuggle it back here to Michigan. I don’t have to pay the onerous 10 cent deposit, and for whatever reason, it always seems cheaper even with the deposit factor weighed in. So anyway, last weekend I stopped in to Krogers to load up before [...]
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While I’ve been off non-blogging, some things have accumulated for posting. None of these really deserve a lengthy post, but they are interesting enough to get mention. I’ll be tossing them up with very little comment. In most cases, the only intent is ‘Hey, isn’t this cool?’. Like this. Please click on the video clip [...]
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231 years of excellence. Cross-posted at No Quarter.
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I can’t get this song out of my head.
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Last week, Gidman and I were sitting in the lunch room on a burned-out Friday, mindlessly chewing our ‘conveniently available work-site cafeteria so you don’t have to leave the site’ food, when I started looking at a plastic fork, manufactured by the Sunshine Corporation. So we started talking forks. Look at the design and variety [...]
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We’ve had two cats since we moved back from California in 1999. We adopted them as kittens from a shelter. More accurately, we set out to adopt one cat we saw on a leaflet at the grocery store, and ended up with his cage-mate as well. Soft-hearted suckers that we are… Emily and Ramses are [...]
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Just because I think it could be useful to some. Read here.
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My friend Stephe has some good things over on her blog. So you want to be a writer? And the top 100 things to avoid if you want to keep your job as an Evil Overlord. Good stuff!
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The World Council of Churches wants to place the UN in charge of all new technologies, requiring UN approval before we deploy any new ideas. Oh yeah, where do I sign up for this brilliant plan?
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It seems the Ohio State Government is distraught over not being able to get their food stamp participation rate to a high enough level. Funny, I always thought fewer people signing up for help was a good thing. Tim Taylor’s job calls for finding ways to distribute food stamps to Geauga County’s Amish. He might [...]
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Barry Lyndon, presented in HiDef on my 42″ LCD… And I stumbled over it by accident. Didn’t even know it would be on.
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Interesting read. I didn’t realize this had a name. For what’s worth, Chris Gidman seems to have this happen to him more often than usual.
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If you see this in the grocery store, buy it. If you like to use a straw, make sure it is the largest bore you can find.
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Not what you think… I’ve been meaning to post this for about a week.
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Gotta have it
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He pointed it out to me. Go listen here. I actually BOUGHT the song on iTunes (4:40 long)…and I can’t stop listening to it. What’s up with that?
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As a sufferer (undiagnosed) of ADD/OCD (obsessing about new ideas until I forget I was obsessed and then move on to some other obsession), I frequently have odd thoughts driving me to internet research. Yesterday was another of these odd thoughts. I fell asleep for a couple of hours with my oldest daughter, who has [...]
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Everyone has to have one, right?
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I’m not sure why this is available on-line, but I’ll assume it has been blessed in some way by the author. Here’s a link to one of the most amusing passages from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon.
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