I got six, that’s all there is

From Jeanne comes the “6 unknown things about me” meme, which is quite difficult, because I am constantly scouring my brain for interesting parts of my past to use for blog posts. In fact, I just used one of them, and got a lot of comments. Not as many as dooce gets, but what the [...]

Administrative Note

For those of you who are non-WordPressians, WordPress has implemented a new feature called “Possibly Related Posts” which may now appear at the end of every archived post. The nice thing is that those links may take you to a site far more interesting than this one. The bad thing is that the operative word [...]

The standard deviation of hope

Light to moderate posting this week. It makes me feel guilty when I see that post calendar over to the right, and there are a string of unhighlighted days. It’s been quite a crazy week for reasons I can’t go into now, but will possibly post about sometime in the mid-to-long future. Everything’s OK, it’s [...]

Guilt by association

OK, in high school, the big musical theatre group (composed of juniors and seniors) put on a semi-staged production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (auf Englisch, näturlich). The parts were divided in three: three Taminos, three Paminas, etc. and the arias were divided up similarly. I forget the aria I sang, as Tamino, but I [...]

Kids are da kwayziest peoples

I forgot the most important part of the earthquake story this morning.
So, it’s about 7:00 am and Daughter #2 is up and about in the kitchen. The following conversation ensues:
Me: Hey, D#2 did you feel the earthquake last night?
D#2: [leaves the kitchen shrugging her left shoulder "whatever", then turns around and says] “Maybe the sun [...]

Shimmy-shake

I was going to say unwarrantedly nasty things about the people up in Kokomo who mistook the sonic boom of an F-16 fighter for a meteor shower. Last night, on the 102nd anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, we felt a tremor here in the heartland. According to reports, it ws a 5.4 quake centered [...]

Dude, I’m famous

GromBlog, which rivals BoingBoing in the amount and quality of the weird and wonderful stuff found on tha Intarwebs, has a feature they like to call One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other (OOTTINLTO for short). The conceit is that people send in one word or a two-word phrase for which they did [...]