We are expecting real “OMG-the-world-is-coming-to-an-end!” snow, tonight and tomorrow – about 10 -12 inches. I feel like I should rush to the store and buy stuff but I look around and I can’t see anything that we’re nearly out of and that we will have to have in the next day or two. On Christmas [...]

I did not forget that Friday was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy. I thought about writing something about it but I didn’t really know what I wanted to say. Still don’t. When I remember it, what I always think of was that an engineer warned NASA officials that it would not be a [...]

Often, what I want to eat for breakfast and what I want to make for breakfast are very different things. Cold cereal was out of the question anyway because we’re out of milk and we don’t have any good finger cereals like Fruit Loops or Cap’n Crunch. We have Cheerios but I hate Cheerios. What [...]

The Oscars awards show I can do without but I do find it entertaining to see what a small group of people were bribed sufficiently to say is the best of their industry. — here The entire enterprise of science is based on the idea that the final arbiter of truth is a close interrogation [...]

My favorite animated gif ever. Not only cute but geeky too. I know… I could post it here instead of sending you over there but I’m feeling lazy this morning. And besides, if I did someone (probably someone who’s never commented before) would tell me how much they hate animated gifs. More importantly, I’m always [...]

Wow. My brain is tired. I think I need more caffeine. Or maybe a snack. Have you ever set out to search for something you thought was simple but it turned out to be a lot more complicated than you expected? I was going to write something that seemed quite clever half an hour ago [...]

Ah… nice.

Nicole reacts to the latest cheap high. First of all, I must say that if you use illegal drugs or drink, sniff, snort or smoke household products to get high you’re an idiot. However, we can’t ban or put behind the counter everything that idiot people’s idiot kids discover they can use to get high. [...]

It’s not bad enough that they try to use my comments section as a billboard; now they’re being insulting too. I deleted the following a few minutes ago. The next time NFL Jersey I read a blog, I hope that it doesnt disappoint me as much as this one. I mean, I know it was [...]

Do we all eventually reach the point where we can’t deal with any more new stuff? I hope I’m not embarrassing Steph when I say this was sort of inspired by her comment here. I’ve thought about this before but that’s what got me started this time. Her comment: All this new technology is a [...]

Soon we will all be paying for our purchases with our phones. What I like about Starbucks’ new system is that you have to link to a Starbucks gift card. I think linking it to your credit or debit card would be a bad idea, but if you had accounts with each of your favorite [...]

This is almost enough to make me want an iPhad. Almost. (Oh, okay! I confess. I do want one. Sort of. Maybe I just want to play with one for a little while.)

This is just so delightfully wrong. see more Must Have Cute via

I am convinced that messy closets send out brain disruption waves. — here (Oh! So that’s my problem!) Wow, watching St. Tom Brady the Overrated pout when he gets beat really never gets old, does it? — there It’s a book for those willing to look at life through the eyes of a child and [...]

Istanbul – some interesting photos more Vintage sci-fi – short blog post that includes links to two old sci-fi stories Weird movie – I bet you thought they didn’t make them like that anymore. Anatomy ballgown – Want to stand out at your next fancy shindig? Floriated Ornament – Some pretty designs from an 1849 [...]

Oooooooo! This looks interesting. You know… when I bought my Kindle I knew that something better would come along within a year or two. That’s okay though. I’m happy with my Kindle and by the time it has to be replaced (hopefully not for many years) gadgets like this will cost less than they do [...]

I was looking for a very strange Taco Mayo commercial that has been airing lately. I didn’t find it but I did find this one, which is very similar. The one I was looking for has a woman singing, same tune, different words, same hick accent. But that’s not all – notice the voice over [...]

I just discovered Worlds Without End’s page of author videos. I highly recommend the speech by Terry Pratchett: Part 1, Part 2.

*I don’t feel good. I have a cold, which seems to be a little better this morning but I never can tell. My colds sort of come and go until they’re completely gone. What’s worse is I have a muscle (or maybe a group of muscles) in my back on the lower left side that [...]

There is now a new zodiac sign. Of course astrology is a bunch of hooey. I don’t believe even the least little bit of it but I grew up around people who, to varying degrees, did believe it and as far back as I can remember I’ve been aware that my sign is Taurus. Now, [...]

Thanks to Dustbury for the link and for the link to this long, long page of pictures of people wearing socks and sandals. I’m not even halfway down yet but so far my favorite is the guy with the clown stuff and the socks with a circle pattern. And then there are the guys wearing [...]

As I think I said once before, procrastination has always served me well. I was talking about these a while back. I had just about decided to wait until Wal-mart comes out with their cheap Birkenstock knock-offs, as they do every spring, and buy a pair of those. I know… “eeewww Wal-mart” and “eeewww knock-off” [...]

Just as long as I don’t have to sign away my life savings and drink some Kool-Aid, I’m in! — here The thing with Wagner is that, if he’s a food, he is a very, very heavy bread, the kind of bread that’s an inch thick and sits in your stomach like a brick after [...]

Just some more lazy linkage… First, two found at Nag on the Lake (and she’s got a lot more so go there, okay) Libraries of the Rich and Famous. OMG! I want Rod Stewart’s library. (By the way, I really hate when I click on a picture to make it bigger and the “bigger” version [...]

I’ve been daydreaming about big beautiful Victorian houses again and I got this idea, or I should say “dream”, which I’ll tell you more about in a minute, so I did an image search on tiny Victorian houses and it came up with a lot of pictures of Victorian houses that are mostly not tiny [...]