"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter." —Mark Twain
I knew my car was the inspiration for Star Wars’ imperial storm trooper helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey’s EVA pods. What I didn’t know until today was that it also carries a SAG card and has acted in 43 movies. Amazing things flow through the Series of Tubes. Thanks to Biomes Blog for the […]
Sometimes you just have to give in and watch a blockbuster Hollywood fluff flick . . . or two. Hancock and The Dark Knight sat in our queue for weeks, each bearing Netflix’s dreaded “very long wait” warning. Our wait ended last week, and we watched them back to back. Hancock (2008). A movie […]
Last one of the Christmas/New Year’s season, I think. Good thing, too, because as much fun as we’ve had, as much as we love our friends, we’re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad’s nerdy cell phone […]
I usually smoke something (in the smoker, people!) for New Year’s Day dinner, but this year we’re taking it easy. Dry-rubbed spareribs, baked beans, something green, I don’t know . . . I’ll figure it out when I go to Safeway, soon as I post this. After getting groceries I’m going riding, scouting trail for […]
Two books and one movie I hated. Your mileage, as they say, may vary. Trojan Odyssey by Clive Cussler. Four sentences, pulled at random from different chapters, should tell you all you need to know: Now as their objective stood before them it became obvious that unlike the others towns and cities they had sacked, […]
Internet Explorer wouldn’t let me use copy/paste to edit the widgets in my sidebar, so I switched to Firefox. What with all the security vulnerabilities hackers keep discovering in IE, I was even happier about switching. Then, yesterday, I reorganized bookmarks and added new ones. When I started Firefox this morning, the changes had disappeared. […]
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. I enjoyed Mary Roach’s writing in Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, so I bought Bonk on CD to listen to on long drives. Turns out there’s quite a bit about sex I didn’t know (imagine that). Honestly, you’ll want to experience this work in private […]
A few photos: Donna and I started to hang ornaments on the tree two days ago, meaning to finish up on Christmas Eve. With all the cooking and other things we had to do to get ready for company last night, we never got around to it. But it’s still a lovely tree (thank you, […]