Summer is ended. I don’t care that the calendar says it ended back in September, it was still in the mid-eighties last week, and that, friends, is summer. — here I have now come to the conclusion that internet programmers, web designers and social network engineers with degrees, should all have their diplomas revoked. — [...]

It’s Friday Already? Really? Since it’s Friday I need to do the Friday stuff but I’m hesitating because it really doesn’t feel like Friday at all. I have only two quotes collected so far. I don’t know yet if I’ll just post those two or look around for more. On Tuesday and Wednesday my husband [...]

Here’s a list of music lists. I haven’t looked at all of them yet but particularly interesting to me are 10 Most Bizarre Music Genres and Top 10 Ridiculous Music Genres. Some are more bizarre and ridiculous than others but what I think is interesting is that there are so many different kinds of music [...]

Solution to the Travelling Salesman Problem The problem with zombie slaves 70 year olds are smarter than they used to be. That’s nice to know. Cool Halloween gadgets – Terrifying? Not really. Mostly just fun. (via)

Found this the other day, can’t remember where: 100 Blog Posts That Will Make You Happier. Right away it kinda had the opposite effect – it made me just a tiny bit less happy because I thought: “100 Blog posts! I’ll never have time to read all of those.” But, you know… I don’t have [...]

In my WordPress Dashboard, in the list of recent comments, it lists a comment that is obviously spam but, strangely, the comment does not exist. I can go to the post that it’s supposed to be on and it’s not there. I go to the master list of comments to delete it (which is what [...]

My son and daughter-in-law have a new puppy. I got to meet her Friday evening. As I’ve said before I’m not really a dog person myself so I don’t have much to say. She’s cute, like all puppies; also friendly and playful but not especially hyper. She seems to get along well with their older [...]

I hadn’t thought about Cecile Chaminade’s Piano Trio in G minor for several years. Earlier this week when I pulled it out and listened to it. It’s funny how favorites can slip off your play-list. I could only find the second movement on YouTube so I’m going to send you here to listen to it [...]

I hope when I’m old and hobbitty I have some semi-flinch-inspiring obsession to make the young’uns gak a little. It’s the right thing for our elders to do. — here It’s not that I exactly forgot, but when it mattered yes, I did, unmistakably, unforgivably, but overall, no, I didn’t forget, I remembered, the day [...]

Finally, after nearly a year, I finished The Compromise Quilt yesterday. Here it is on the bed. It’s hard to show all of it because we have a tiny, junky bedroom and I don’t have a good place to hang large quilts to show them off either. I couldn’t wait to sleep under it even [...]

Pop Cakes – Nice! And I bet they’re delicious too. Another seriously weird shoe. There are a lot of other interesting and fun things at Book of Joe, a blog that’s new to me. Art Deco trains – Beautiful! Sam Van Olffen – a beautiful art blog, lots of steampunkish images Crowlspace – A great [...]

After watching several episodes of the new CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, I must reluctantly admit that, aside from William Shatner, it is nothing special – an entirely typical “cranky old guy annoys his adult offspring” type of sitcom.* But none of those other typical sitcoms have William Shatner singing I’m Too Sexy. (Darn! [...]

Oh no! We might have to wait a little longer for the world to end. Or it might have ended already. I don’t know… I’m still betting on 2012. It is an election year. How could Doomsday miss such a perfect opportunity? Also read 10 Failed Doomsday Predictions.

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Monster gallery – fifty images. There are a number of details from Hieronymous Bosch paintings that make me want to look at those paintings again because I don’t remember some things from paintings I know I’ve looked at. So, here we go… more Bosch. Unfortunately those are not zoomable. Here are more paintings. Some of [...]

Criticker – Rate movies and get recommendations for other movies you might like. I rated a whole bunch of movies and didn’t get any recommendations, just more movies to rate (maybe those are the recommendations?) so I think you have to register for it to work right. Sort of fun anyway though. There’s something about [...]

A little while ago I looked out the back door and saw that my crazy calico was feasting on a freshly killed squirrel. On the doormat right outside the back door. Now maybe I’m the crazy one, demanding that a cat follow my rules, but I’m rather stubborn about such things. Messy feline feasting within [...]

Saturday we went to the Fall Festival at Robbers Cave State Park. We had been planning this for several weeks and I had visions of wearing one of my colorful new flannel shirts and walking around enjoying the cool fall weather and the lovely fall colors but it was almost like summer – over 80°F [...]

I’m embarrassed to be linking to Kobi Levi Footwear but sometimes you see something that you just have to point to and say, “OMG! Look at that!” no matter how awful it is. Warning: the most recent shoes on the site are NSFW. I don’t mean only that you shouldn’t wear them to work but [...]

I don’t understand any of this but it’s sort of funny anyway and I like the idea of it. Found here.

As for vegans and vegetarians–are they not speciesist, too? They don’t eat anything living except plants. The poor carrot is a species, a living thing. It may not have the sort of awareness that even a sea slug possesses, but it’s still alive. So why single it out to be eaten? — here “Basically what [...]

Is steampunk over? The great Lileks thinks so. I used to like him. In his “Bleat” (which I did not read in its entirety) Lileks talks about pop cultural things that are recycled or “rebooted” over and over again and says we need some new things. I agree with that but I do not think [...]

* Imagine the title in the voice of Mel Brooks as the Stand-up Philosopher in The History of the World Part I. Watch it (8:36) Did you watch it? Okay. Now that we’re in the right frame of mind… I’m going to make a prediction. I predict that Mary Fallin will be the next governor [...]

We had an earthquake in Oklahoma this morning. The epicenter was near Norman but I actually felt it here in NE OK. There wasn’t any shaking; I just felt something – I don’t know how to describe it exactly – and then the stainless steel kitchen utensils that I have hanging on the wall kept [...]

Word Fails – 25 No-No Words and Expressions: Use These Word Fails and Expect No Respect. This list contains some of my worst pet peeves, some complaints I disagree with (with which I disagree?) and some that I hadn’t noticed. “You’ve got another thing coming” instead of “you’ve got another think coming” – I never [...]