"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
This survey was forwarded to me by my Facebook friend Jill. Several questions were missing (17-23, 29-33, 36-37, 45). I filled in the blanks with my own questions and answers, then added a bonus question at the end. I also awarded myself 100 Facebook Points™ for answering them all. Here are the instructions included with […]
I’m not very good at breezy updates (unlike my new favorite blogger Nancy Nall), but I’ll try. I was up early this morning to catch the first wave of El Tour de Tucson riders as they streamed past our subdivision in northeast Tucson. The riders in the photographs are competing in the full 109-mile tour; […]
How’s the new Barnes & Noble Nook working out, you ask? I guess I owe you a preliminary review, so here goes: I want to first say first that I took to e-books and e-reading immediately. The Nook is about the size and weight of a trade paperback; a pleasure to hold. I love the […]
“If I were God, I would have made the world just so and no different. And so I have you . . . I have you.” — Viggo Mortensen as The Man in The Road (2009). Yes, I’m still trying to catch up with my backlogged cache of rental DVD reviews. The good news is, […]
“When this is all over I’m going to found an association called ‘The Knights of the Idiotic Table’ and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You’re all members.” – Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson The third and final […]
The other day I blogged about an unpleasant encounter with an enraged, bicycle-hating motorist. That very night, I learned about the Morgan Stanley money manager who ran over a bicyclist and then fled the scene, leaving his victim for dead. You know, the Morgan Stanley money manager the local district attorney decided not to prosecute […]
There was an interesting thread on Facebook this morning. US Rider News, a motorcycle magazine, posted a link to a newspaper article about a veteran who didn’t want a veterans’ motorcycle group leading the local Veterans’ Day parade: “I don’t think that’s the image we want,” said Stephen Riggs of West Ashley, a former Army […]
We went for a bicycle ride this morning with other members of our Trail Trash riding group. Along the way I had an unpleasant encounter with a motorist. Did it really spoil the ride? No, but it was shocking to me to realize how much some folks hate bicyclists. We were riding south toward the […]