Archive for August, 2007

Small Victories

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Remember this post?
Well, I think this speaks for itself:

Oh, the fact that you can see this means that I cleaned up enough of my desk to hook the scanner back up–while this doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s significant to me, at least archaeologically.
We won’t speak about the other piece of government paper that I [...]

You go, Rakusin!

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

I love books. As I write this I am literally surrounded by them. Every wall, floor to ceiling.
I have friends who write books. I have other friends who are just as nutty about books as I am.
I read a lot of blogs and other sources of information about authors, publishers, etc.
Consequently, I have spent a [...]

The Day The Bulls Won

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I meant to mention this last month, and then things got out of hand.
So, you know the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona? I don’t get it, but then there’s a lot of that Hemmingwayesque butch stuff that I don’t get.
Knowing that “Injuries are common, both to the participants who may be gored or trampled, [...]

I like Sherlock Holmes.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

I don’t think it ever occurred to me that Arthur Conan Doyle’s lifespan had convergence with the period in which film, particularly film with audio, was a common technology.
I certainly don’t think of him being alive until 1930–in my mind he’s all about gaslight, and certainly set in the period well before WWI.
However, reality is, [...]

Mixing It Up 5: Minksellaneous

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

OK, after a pause long enough for the Minks to cross most of Canada–so much for the “do some easy posts to keep the blog going while work crested” plan–we come to the last one ..and let's finish up with an unthemed mix of various things. They’re all appropriate in some way, but they don’t [...]

I am an information junkie

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

I just read through the 600+ posts that my RSS Reader had stored up for me in the “High Interest” category while I was working too hard over the last several weeks. I had occasionally popped into the reader and read some of what might be called the informal “Very High Interest” subset (I really [...]

I think the madness is over…

Monday, August 6th, 2007

…or at least I am past the peak of it.
The last three weeks of insanely intense work, with days getting longer as the week progressed–in the last 10 days I have been working almost all of my waking hours, including weekends, and I have seen the sunrise from my desk on three different occasions–were frankly [...]