When I was a student, in the days before I had covered my walls with art, I used to decorate with words. I would take those cheap 8.5 x 11 frames you could buy at the grocery store, and fill them with nicely formatted blocks of text–poems, quotes, things like that. I’ve always liked to [...]
Warning: this will be a Sappy Dad™ post.
I woke up this morning to a smiling three year old face. I was wished a Happy Father’s Day, and handed this:
I was unsurprised by the signature, as I have seen Sarah working on writing her name quite a few times now. I was pretty shocked by the [...]
Something has been interfering with my blogging time the last few days.
I’m not going to name this distraction, but its initials are MKW–and it has nothing to do with audio compression.
Oh, and here’s another hint:
Seven days into June, and I have my first sunburn of the year.
Since there is a problem with the A/C in my car at the moment, I spent part of the day driving around with the windows down, and one arm hanging out. This arm has now developed the startling boiled lobster colour so familiar [...]
This weekend marked both the 7th anniversary of my wedding to a woman who is much too good for me1, and the 10th anniversary of the day we “officially” started going out.
Time flies. It seems like the five year mark was just a minute ago.
According to traditional sources, the 7th wedding anniversary is marked with [...]
I spent some time last week at a professional conference. For the most part it was a relatively valuable use of my time, but there were significant portions of time where I was stuck sitting in a room with lots of people while a particularly boring speaker was presenting. I was without a computer–the conference [...]
Answer, and explanatory story, to follow.
On the off chance that someone comments with the plaintext before I get around to telling the story, I will send them a $20 Amazon gift certificate or something like that.
I passed a lovely bit of time today reading The American Hobo by Colin Beesley, a British academic paper about a quintessentially American phenomenon1. I’ve always found the romantic aspects of the hobo story fascinating (something that Utah Phillips has only encouraged), although I suspect I’m too soft to have lived that life even had [...]
Jonathan Carroll’s never-emptying cornucopia of awesome brings us this quote today:
I live near the abyss. I hope to stay.
–Theodore Roethke
Yes, I quite like that. A little bit Nietzsche, a little bit Billy Joel. It, at least to me, says something about an artistic way to live.
Actually, and this is probably sharing too much, this brings [...]
…NEVER say that I got left behind.
I have not been here, because I have been driving ridiculous distances around North America to visit friends and to see the Oysterband live (third time!)
I think I had an idiot grin on my face for about six hours after the show.
I will be discussing this at length at [...]
Sunday: 3 hours of packing. 1 hour of back-and-forth. 11 hours of driving (5 hours of music, 6 hours of radio plays.) 3 hours of reading.
Monday: 9 hours actually in the office. 7.5 hours of meetings.1 I predict another two or three hours of reading Santayana now.
Predictions for tomorrow: 8.5 hours of meetings already scheduled.
I [...]
When asked about my home town, I usually reply with one of two quips. Either “it’s a great place to be from” or “it may be smallish, but it has a high character ratio”. That second line which inevitably leads into discussions of the various people that are “real characters” that everyone in the conversation [...]
And now, for a nice long weekend diversion, a selection of songs with a common characteristic: people seem to be surprised that I really like them.
First up we have Dino. This might surprise people who know me a bit, since I’m really not a lounge type of cat. It might surprise people who know me [...]
No normal blogging today, since I was mostly busy with family stuff. For cynical Good Friday stuff, hit the search bar and look for “Good Friday” or “Eostre”, and you can read last year’s stuff.
The other thing keeping me busy was an upgrade to “the lab”, also known as “my office”, or “the library” depending [...]
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