(“Mr. X” is an alias, since I don’t actually have permission from the other party to identify him. If you want to be identified, you can speak up in the comments.) [10:18] “Doc” McLaren: Orphans are a wise investment in a turbulent economy. [10:18] Mr. X: Yeah, they give you a lot of options [10:19] “Doc” McLaren: The irony is… Read more →
Year: 2006
Book Notes: Agony Column
OK, time to do some initial clean up on my “To Blog” folder. The first thing on the menu is a set of pointers to Agony Column content, to thin out the “Books” subfolder. I’ve mentioned before that Rick Kleffel might be the reviewer who most constantly lines up with my eclecticism, and looking at my “To Blog” folder I… Read more →
Spend nine minutes with Alan Moore
He comes off a bit pretentious, and probably won’t get any new readers from this, but since I was already fully converted it’s very interesting to me. Read more →
Roach’s Rib Secrets
I don’t even really like ribs, but this (lengthy) post from my pal Roach makes me both hungry (and thirsty–I want a patio day now!): TwoBlog » Let the Ribfests begin! I’ve been cooking Ribs for several years now and I must say that I am no slouch. I can state with confidence that every person who has tasted ”Ribs… Read more →
You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me!
Gallup: More Than Half of Americans Reject Evolution, Back Bible A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, “God created man exactly how Bible describes it.” Another 31% says that man did evolve, but “God guided.” Only 12% back evolution and say “God had no… Read more →
Things to listen to
Not music this time, but a bunch of things you can slap in your MP3 player and use to fill up some dead time. I’m going to assume you know what a podcast is, and have software to harvest them. (I use Doppler.) Let’s start with academics. Professor Courtney Brown, of the Political Science department at Emory University in Georgia… Read more →
An idiot child with a gun
And you wonder why the rest of the world is both terrified of you and condescending to you? Damn. Read more →
SF Authors say smart things: Scalzi on the Judiciary
SF author John Scalzi is doing “reader request week” over at his popular blog Whatever, an annual event where he posts in response to reader requests (duh!). Today’s post is on the question of “activist” judges, and Scalzi’s response is great. I’ve noticed that my political opinions and Scalzi’s have some overlap but they certainly aren’t congruent; this piece is… Read more →
PhD women all around me
This week I am suffering from some academic jealousy. First, we found out last week that Trish has been accepted into the highly competitive management PhD program at SMU. While I can’t imagine being interested in the subjects she’s studying, I am a little jealous of her going back to school. Not that I would actually give up any of… Read more →
Minor sidebar work
I’ve added random quote functionality to the sidebar, and so far I’ve just fed in something like 30 choice Bertrand Russell quotes. I haven’t decided yet whether or not I intend to add other authors, or just keep deepening the Russell quote collection. You’ll see it at the top of the sidebar. You will also see a new entry in… Read more →
My little brother is insane…
…and I’m a bit jealous. Steve has essentially been on the DL for all of this season. Due to the wonders of hockey contracts he still gets paid while he recovers–even though he isn’t playing, so this fact hasn’t pinched his lifestyle too much. He just played his first game of the season, and in what I can only assume… Read more →
No Pants != Nude
I just want to say that while I work from home, I have never worked in the nude. 10% of telecommuters are nude – Wikinews A survey by SonicWALL, a Sunnyvale, CA, based company, reports that 10% of worldwide telecommuters are nude while working, finding 12% for men and 7% for women, respectively. A gender gap also exists for showering… Read more →
Margo Lanagan’s Voice
I was really expecting a more pronounced Australian accent. That’s what I get for working with guys in Victoria, I guess. A while back genius Australian short story writer Margo Lanagan posted that she had done an interview with the BBC World Service‘s program “The Word“. The short interview is nominally about her brilliant short story collection Black Juice–a collection… Read more →
Festival Of Me
So, when you hit your first birthday you’re starting your second year of life, right? And when you hit you second birthday you’re starting your secondthird year of life? Well, that means that when you hit your 99th birthday, you’re starting your 100th year of life. (I can actually prove this via mathematical induction, if you doubt me.) Which means… Read more →
Guinness Ice Cream
Paul once made a Guinness ice cream dish for me, where he reduced Guinness down to a super-powerful thick sauce that was poured over fine french vanilla. It was tasty, but apparently took a lot of effort. I wonder if this would be nearly as good–I think an experiment is in order. Maybe on the 17th. (From the January 18th,… Read more →
