…to close a bunch of tabs before Firefox memory issues eat my computer.
Let us begin with my praise of BibliOdyssey. They pulled me in earlier this month with the scans from an antique geomancy almanac, and I’ve been exploring their archives since then. Wow, is there a lot of stuff in there for a bibliophile [...]
Here are a few other things, of no practical value, that I’d love to get:
The Peggy programmable light board kit. I’d like to buy a few of these–one to put in the office in Boston to mock the Mooninite thing from last year, one to put in my office for alternative visualization experiments, and one [...]
You know what I want, that is ridiculously expensive, and that I can in no way practically justify, but which I still have a serious hankering for?
A sword cane.
At least twice a week for the last couple of months, I’ve spent some time looking at the photos at the Burger Knives sword cane pages–especially the [...]
One of the online fora I am active on included a pointer this week to a blog post showing some interesting Laotian rice wine:
(You can see an even bigger version of that photo at the author’s Flickr page.)
I’m not opposed to liquor with stuff in it generally–but there is some stuff that probably doesn’t [...]
If you read this blog closely, you will have noticed a few mentions of Matt Hughes, particularly including my mention of being startled at finding out there was a Hughes chapbook forthcoming from a publisher I had previously never heard of.
Well, you can be sure I’ll be paying a lot more attention to Payseur And [...]
Ever since Amazon.ca opened, I’ve been in a kind of book-buyer’s bliss. The Canadian variant of Amazon has a broader selection than native Chapters, and typically has lower prices–all good stuff.
Even better, though, Amazon.ca put me in a position to leverage my special status as a Canadian lover of books: we can get both American [...]
Pal Gwenda points out the online version of Locus’ Forthcoming Books list through next September and asks what we’re lusting after.
I’ve gone through the list and tried to pick out the top three each month, where “top three” is defined as “three I am most excited about reading”, which is not necessarily the same thing [...]
Yes, that’s correct. Apparently there is a BaldGuyz corporation making products just for… well, “bald guys”. As time goes by I am falling more and more into their target audience.
I think these boxes look pretty funny though.
* * *
I wouldn’t actually buy BaldGuyz products, but as an engineer I think I am duty-bound to [...]
Gordon
will shetterly
Mr. McLaren
Trish
DeclanMr. McLaren
Fredwill shetterlywill shetterlyMr. McLaren