I saw a TV commercial (I forget the product) that had a very old-fashioned sounding group singing something about “whispering grass” and I remembered hearing something that sounded similar to it in another commercial. A little bit of searching and I quickly discovered the Ink Spots. The other song I heard was I Don’t Want [...]

I suppose in light of the amounts of heavy cream and chocolate used this week, it hasn’t been exactly cheap content… — here Slang rarely has staying power. That is part of its charm; the young create it, and discard it as soon as it becomes too common. Slang is a subset of in-group language, [...]

Don’t get me wrong… I’m not against the mentally challenged having jobs but don’t you think that certain kinds of jobs – like delivering packages for UPS – should have the requirement that the people doing that job not be f*cking retards? (Which, just to be clear, is not the same thing as mentally challenged)

I’m in the middle of Iain M. Banks’ Player of Games. I might post more about the book in general after I’ve finished it but there’s something in it that started me thinking and I wanted to go ahead and throw it out there for (hopefully) discussion. There is a race of humanoids in this [...]

Legend of the Praying Hands – A beautiful, sad story Travel poster – I like that. “The fastest way to tomorrow…” Details – Best article I’ve read about the Trayvon Martin shooting (actually, I haven’t read very many) Vintage Matchbox Labels – Packaging used to be so much more interesting. Designer wallpaper – real wallpaper, [...]

Here’s another item in the long list of impossible standards. To be beautiful, women must have no kneecaps. Of course you know I have a solution to this problem: wear longer skirts.

I had never heard, or heard of, Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau until a few days ago when I was listening to one of DirecTV’s music channels. There’s always something new to discover in 200 year old music.

I do not need these but they keep calling to me. (I’m not getting them. I have never paid more than $100 for a pair of shoes but if they ever have a half off sale on them I might not be able to resist temptation.) Tilly and the Buttons is a nice sewing blog. [...]

If you pay attention to NFL football at all, and probably even if you don’t, you’ve heard that Peyton Manning is now a Denver Bronco. Once you’ve seen Brett Favre in a Vikings uniform nothing in football is really surprising anymore so, no, this doesn’t feel particularly odd to me, but I am a little [...]

…the great thing about music is that it doesn’t have to map precisely to exact emotions to be of comfort. — here This is deeply disappointing to a generation that viewed the Jetsons and the Six Million Dollar Man as reasonable prognosticators of things to come. In place of robot helpers and super-fast bionic legs, [...]

Last night we watched Finding Forrester, a 2000 movie starring Sean Connery and Rob Brown. I think it might be my new favorite Sean Connery movie. (Of course my favorite Sean Connery movie usually is the last one I watched.) The movie begins with a group of black teenage boys playing basketball and talking about [...]

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Israel has just passed a law that requires models to have a BMI of at least 18.5 or a doctor’s note saying that they are not underweight. That sounds likes a step in the right direction. The only concern I have is the doctor’s note loophole. I’m sure it won’t be all that hard to [...]

I finished reading China Mieville’s Embassytown yesterday. This one is science fiction but it’s only slightly less weird than his fantasy novels. It’s a very fascinating story that deals with the connection between language and thought. Embassytown is a human community inside a bubble of Earth-type atmosphere, surrounded by the natives’ city. The natives, the [...]

Cats are such amusing little creatures. Whenever we have a thunderstorm our two freak out and demand to be let outside. Of course, if we give in and let them out, as soon as they discover that it is even noisier outside, they desperately want back in. The really funny thing is that they never [...]

We have had over 4 inches of rain since yesterday morning and it’s still raining. Our power has been off three times. I am amazed that I am still connected to the Internet. That’s usually the first thing to go and now that I’ve typed that it will probably cut out any second now. The [...]

I won’t be trying this. It sounds stupid. And it proves that if you ban everything potentially dangerous people will still manage to find something crazy to do. Milkshake recipes – I did not need these. Also, why is it that I had a blender for 30 years and never used it but after I [...]

I’ve probably told this story before. When I was six years old my mother forgot about St. Patrick’s Day and I went to school wearing a red plaid dress. I had a lovely green dress with tiny pink rosebuds that I could have worn if I had known. Almost right away a boy in my [...]

CSS rulers – a sort of nifty “because we can” thing Men’s fashion – The pants are a little short but other than that… Neuroscience and Nostalgia – Go ahead and reminisce. It’s good for you. Cell phones and Alzheimers – Surprise! Talking on your cell phone might be good for you too. Don’t try [...]

Part I Referring to the web kids essay quoted and linked by Grinding, I have to say a little something about these paragraphs: We are used to our bills being paid automatically, as long as our account balance allows for it; we know that starting a bank account or changing the mobile network is just [...]

I like the quote in this image and wanted to post it here so I googled it so I could just copy and paste and found there’s just a little bit more to it. “Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To [...]

There’s a list of 50 Most Hated Movies so of course I have to post it also and add my comments. The ones I’ve seen are in bold. I had no idea some of these movies were hated but I’m not surprised. It seems like there are an awful lot of people out there who [...]

Yay Daylight Saving Time! I know a lot of people hate it but I like I it and this year I’m going to try really hard to avoid reading any DST hate. It feels like spring. I know at this time of year there’s still a possibility of really bad cold weather – snow, ice [...]

…it’s a funny thing about editorials: they never seem to have actual editors. — here The question will always be “What went before?” But, for the time being, we must resign ourselves to ignorance. We sit down in the concert hall, open our programs, and — BOOM — we are knocked out of our seats. [...]

Whenever I read something like this quote my first instinct is to scoff. Every generation believes that they are different and special and the greatest, most intelligent generation ever. Just wait, kids, someday your children and grandchildren will tell you that they are smarter than you. It’s been going on like that for thousands of [...]