Happy Halloween!
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How the new “Star Trek” movie should have ended.
I was really looking forward to the latest Star Trek movie (i.e., the one from Jar Jar Abrams), but it turned out to be just a tired retread of the last Star Trek movie: ugly Romulans (read: foreigners, illegal aliens, Arabs, people from India, Muslims, people with beards, Mexicans, Democrats, people with turbans, people with …read more…
Project Wideawake #007
I told you I was going to do a Halloween edition. And here it is. Not a lot of talking, just music. Here’s the music, in order. No time for album covers, since most of them don’t have any. A lot of these groups have just gone away, or gone on to do other things, …read more…
working through the backlog…
Finally got through a couple of posts I had started earlier and never got around to finishing. So I finished them and posted them. If you’ve been following the RSS feed for this blog, then you might have noticed them just suddenly showing up in the feed. Sorry if your universe is wobbly as a …read more…
you are now free to wander about the cabin…
Not long after the aluminium incarceration came to an end, I wanted to spend a great deal of time reading. Reading has always been one of the great pleasures in my life, but a guilty pleasure. All that time spent reading really should be spent doing something productive, or so my inner Puritan told me. …read more…
a thought about the upcoming US election cycle…
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion than democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov For a really cool picture of Isaac Asimov, check on this art print by Rowena. For more information about Isaac …read more…
the toad elevating moment…
It is safe to say that this has been the worst summer I have ever had. As much as I would like to say that it has been awful because of health problems, or my business going under, or because of my impending divorce, I can’t. I don’t live a tabloid life. This summer has …read more…
…i believe in miracles…
Okay, I’m staying up too late trying to get some work done that has to be done by tomorrow, and I have to get up early and go to work, and listening to this is what is giving me enough energy to get this all done. I’m only posting this here so I can listen …read more…
monetize your pets…
In May of 2010, I signed up for Google Adwords and placed them on my main site, my bookblog, and, once I got it going in December of 2010, on this blog. I never expected to make a living from adsense, much less a fortune. After all, what you earn per click is small, and …read more…
it’s gonna be a wonderful day…
This is what happens when you try to clean up your hard drive a bit: you find files that seemed terribly important to save at the time, and now you have no idea why you even bothered. A lot of them got binned, but this one seemed happy enough to keep and share. I think …read more…
Not Quite Black Bean Soup
Some time ago, I bookmarked this recipe and wanted very desperately to make it, but never had the time. It was hot today (over 80°), but in a few days the temperature is expected to drop almost thirty degrees. So I figured that today would be a good day to make it because like all …read more…
…a noiseless patient spider…
I found this spiderweb in the grass outside my apartment one morning at the end of last month. If you look at it up close, it’s such a delicate, intricate little construction. It obviously reflects a great deal of work and skill in its construction. Coated with dew, it looks like a snug, almost magical …read more…
