Absolutely adorable!. Click the photo for a slightly larger view and one more photo.

Well… in most cases I know why but it’s slightly appalling how much stuff I bookmark and then forget about. Time to clean ‘em out again and since I can’t stand to throw anything away I’ll just throw them here. Some of these are old and I might have linked to them before. If so, [...]

It seems like the best dreams are always rudely interrupted. This morning I dreamed that I was at a sidewalk sale or flea market. Everything was in lots and one lot was several wool quilt batts. The price for all of them was 74 dollars and some cents. I was trying to see what size [...]

I just a few minutes ago found out that Tricia Helfer is on tonight’s episode of Chuck. But I guess all you true fans already knew about this, right?

Fascinating images – various images from the 1700′s and earlier. I especially like the two pictures of a fireworks display at the Palace of Versailles and the birds’ nest pictures. And the library picture. Hong Konk sunset – a cool Flash toy. (via Bifurcated Rivets) Heh – funny fake “vintage” ad (for fans of the [...]

I finally saw the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. I won’t give away the ending but I will say it was a good ending. For just a moment, when I first realized what was going on I was a little bit disappointed. I felt like, “No, no, this is not the way it’s supposed to [...]

Sony has teamed up with Google to challenge the Kindle in the e-book wars. [Yawn] Yeah it’s nice that you can read Google’s entire public domain library on it but the reader itself still costs over $300 dollars. Look! These days, for $300 you can get an actual computer. Here’s what I expect in an [...]

Are there any planets that are a guilty pleasure for Galactus, in the way that, say, a bucket of fried chicken might be a guilty pleasure for humans right now? As in, “Boy, I don’t eat gas giants all that often because they’re really not terribly good for me, but sometimes I gotta indulge!” — [...]

Busy, busy, busy. Most of my busy-ness is of my own choosing – things I have decided that I want to do and therefore I must do them. But I still feel the pressure of “not enough time.” Often, when I start feeling that I don’t have enough time that’s when I start slacking off [...]

For anyone who’s ever looked at an abstract painting and said, “A two-year-old could do that,” here’s your proof, I suppose. I find the prissy art critic highly amusing. He apparently thinks the paintings are good enough that a two-year-old could not have done them without adult help. Personally, I like abstract art but it [...]

Some lovely photos taken in Bath, UK. I wish the last one was a video.

Last week Brit Gal posted a list of What the UK Does a lot Better. Well, as a proud American I have to admit that I was a bit miffed, though I couldn’t argue since I haven’t been to the UK. And there are a couple of items that I can easily believe. One is [...]

Illustration Art – a very nice blog. This post is excellent. Interesting old photo and several good links. World’s largest model train set – Wow An interesting non-fiction booklist Strangest musical scores

It’s windy today. Very windy. It makes me a wee bit nervous when it gets this windy. I’m hoping our fair-weather Internet connection will cooperate long enough for me to find some fascinating things to link to so there’ll be something here to keep you wonderful people entertained for a while. And I just finished [...]

I saw this in the side bar over there and I really like it a lot. “When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” – C.S. Lewis I think that might be the perfect philosophy for a happy life. I’m [...]

Frak! Frak! Frak! Frak! Last night we were watching the Big Important Battlestar Galactica series finale. We noticed it had started raining a little bit and we heard distant thunder. About fifteen or twenty minutes into the second hour there was a big “oh wow” moment and then, as they normally do after such moments, [...]

“We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.” – from Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

I want! – Yes, I do already have those four symphonies but not by Charles Mackerras. On the same blog: clear things. That refrigerator is just about the dumbest idea I’ve ever seen. A list of architecture and landscape blogs and a weird 16th century illustration. The Renaissance Kitchen – includes 16th century illustrations, a [...]

You know… I know that we can’t make immigration too easy. We can’t let everyone in and we have to be careful who we do let in. But I can’t help thinking that if legal immigration is this hard it’s no wonder so many people are here illegally. Or, another way of looking at it [...]

Actually, I’ll tell you what I really think about blog design. It’s main purpose is to amuse the blogger. — here People change their passions so often, it appears, that it’s probably not even worthwhile to bother listening to some people’s latest passions. For myself, I’ll stick with a few mildly interesting things. They seem [...]

A bat took a ride into space A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery’s external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. [...] “Based on images and video, a wildlife expert who provides support to the center said the small [...]

The SciFi Channel is planning to change its name to SyFy. Fans are understandably outraged. Me? I’m just sad. I’ve always been disappointed with the SciFi Channel. They actually have very little science fiction. They have had a few good shows but it’s mostly bad horror movies, Ghost Hunters and wrestling. So they’re trying to [...]

Here’s a lovely post. It’s always interesting to see a place through the eyes of a person who came from somewhere very different. The flat land, the miles and miles of “wide open spaces”, has always seemed very boring to me but that post truly makes it seem like a wonderful place. I’ve never lived [...]

Wisconsin wants to register their new slogan – Live Like You Mean It – as a trademark. The problem is that several businesses already use that slogan and some of them are not happy. The article doesn’t mention it but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard, “Live like you mean it,” on commercials for Cherokee Casino [...]

Today my mother and I went to Sager Creek Quilts. What a great little store! So much wonderful fabric! That place is seriously hard on the willpower but I somehow managed to leave with only one item that I didn’t plan on buying. I found, as I was hoping to, the perfect fabric for the [...]