see more Historic LOL Okay, okay… it’s not really the last time, because you know someone is going to keep doing it again and again.

I’ve been downloading books and stories from Project Gutenberg (Which probably would disappoint Amazon because I know when they sold me my Kindle they were hoping to make a lot more money off of me than they have.) including some very old science fiction. The interesting thing you discover from reading old sci-fi is that, [...]

Just a recent picture of my neighbor’s pond.

Using radio to judge the quality of music is rather like using toothpicks to judge the quality of furniture. — here His thirty-five years encompassed one of the finest creative lives in the history of our species. — there

Be a 2012 Survivor – Hilarious. NSFW! Dream Orbitals – several space art links Waffle – Hah! Animal links – A long list. I must look at some more of those later. World’s First Car Phone – Wow. If Mr. Macfarlane could see us now! Cats In Things – pictures of cats being cute And [...]

Purely by coincidence, Kelly Sedinger and I both read Heart of Darkness. Sometime last year I saw it on Project Gutenberg’s Top 100 list and thought it might be interesting but it took me several months to get around to downloading and reading it. I don’t have much to say about it. I didn’t dislike [...]

A few months ago SewingPatterns.com had a Vogue sale and there were two or three patterns that I wanted but I kept procrastinating, thinking, I really don’t need those, and reminding myself that I have patterns I haven’t used yet, and so the sale ended. Well now they’re having a Vogue sale again as I [...]

This is the quilt I made for my sister-in-law for Christmas. She loves it. I don’t have a good place to display quilts for photographs so I draped it over a table. This is just one corner of it. It’s a large quilt. I highly recommend clicking on the image and viewing the original size [...]

Okay, I finally did it. Reluctantly, I joined Facebook. I joined mainly to connect with family. I probably also will accept friend requests from other people I already know but I’m not at all interested in the Who Has The Most Facebook Friends competition. I’m still figuring out how the thing works. I don’t expect [...]

To those who pontificate anxiously that the Internet keeps us separate and isolated from one another: You literally do not know what you are talking about. — here (via) We’ve already burned the Library of Alexandria once. Let’s not do anything like that again! — there I am perfectly able to accept that Ponies can [...]

It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence, – that which makes its truth, its meaning – its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream – alone. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

I saw this at Dustbury and had to grab it. see more Historic LOL

I wonder what’s so jolly about Jolly Ranchers. If I was going to assign an emotional state to these candies it would probably be something more like “forlorn.” That’s making the (probably weird) assumption that if they could actually feel any emotions they would want to fulfill their purpose in life, which is to be [...]

I suppose my maternal grandmother was a slightly odd person. Of course I never thought of her as particularly odd. She was my grandmother and I couldn’t imagine her being any other way. But her interests and beliefs were a fairly strange mix. She was superstitious and yet very interested in science. More than anything [...]

Today it has been one month since my mother’s passing. It seems like no more than half that time. It’s funny how time gets all twisted in our heads. Christmas, which was a week more recent, seems much farther in the past. I’ve been told more than once that it gets easier and I know [...]

Contagious yawning – not just for humans Mental Health Hotline – Ha! Sort of an old one I think. The future – Links to five articles speculating about different aspects of life in the future Movies From an Alternate Universe – This would probably make more sense to me if I had seen these movies [...]

Less than a month after he lost his grandmother my son lost a good friend. This is his remembrance: Reynaldo Scott Cerda April 13th, 1977 – January 5th, 2012 Although I don’t remember the date, I was having a good day, the day I met Reynaldo “Ray” Cerda. After a couple of years of searching [...]

One of the things missing in my life that makes me feel deprived is that there’s no “old family home”. My parents were renters and every time we moved a few more things were sacrificed and finally, when my mom moved into a small apartment, a lot of things had to go. There were things [...]

If I have to read one more thing on blogs about how Ronpaulmittromneyricksantorumjesusvader is the last, best, greatest hope for the country, I will stab a goat. — here …a lot of 20-somethings have not yet learned that “sucked” is not a part of constructive criticism. — there Just let art flow through you. — [...]

We had the first snow of the season last night, maybe an inch, which is enough. we got about ten years worth of snow all at one time last year so I think we could do without snow entirely for a few years. Not that I expect there to be any fairness and justice in [...]

My mother’s first name was Audrey. A lovely name. When I was a kid I had never heard of anyone else named that so I just thought of it as an odd, old-fashioned name but over the years I gradually grew to like it a lot more. I hope it never becomes trendy, though. I [...]

Russian retro-future art Vintage ice cream trucks French Star Wars burgers And here’s a little something especially for Leeann:

… because I’m not sure what I want to do right now. I have posts in my head that I want to find pictures for – specific pictures that I haven’t come across yet. There’s one that I have a 5×7 of in a frame and the back of the frame is held on with [...]

Seriously, watching these people desperately try to outclaw each other in an effort to prove to the Tea Partiers which one is the stupidest is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen. — here New Year’s Eve can be a wild, drunken evening for many people. I like to call those people “Amateurs.” [...]

I have to explain something. I closed comments on this post and said what I said about comments because that’s the way I was feeling at the time. Now? I don’t know exactly how I’m feeling about it but it’s getting lonely around here and I’m afraid I might have scared people away. So, this [...]