I’m a pretty conservative/libertarian and I come from a liberal family, live in a liberal area of Ohio, and I work and play in fairly liberal venues. So I have noticed (especially on my recent trip south to my sister’s wedding) that the last few years there seems to be Read more…
I mentioned before that the webcomic Girl Genius features my current favorite fictional female character, but there’s more to the series that I happen to like. One of those elements is how it helps illustrate one of the harder concepts in writing fiction, the fractal nature of storytelling. One of Read more…
Back from vacation/wedding, here’re a few pics from the highlight of the vacation half of our travels, Savannah, Georgia.
Today, thank whatever deity you might fancy, it will be over. At the moment, it looks as if Obama is the favorite. I thought I might list a couple of things I see as possible side effects of an Obama victory. (Sans gnashing teeth or messianic glee.) Those who have Read more…
Missed a blog post because I’m going down south to be at my sister’s wedding. Making bit of a vacation out of it, so I was at the Atlanta Zoo today. So here is a cute panda picture: And more cuteness. . . And now a lizard, a real big Read more…
No time to blog much. So here’s some surrealism for you (much more surreal if you don’t know German and have fond memories of Sesame Street.) (via Weird Universe.)
Over the weekend my DSL=gone. (Last post was actually in the queue before the outage) And while I had a tech scheduled to come out, the line problem fixed itself sometime early Monday. The roughly 36 hours without the Internet brought home exactly how much we rely on it now. Read more…
Online mortgage ads are just getting weirder and weirder. However, the woman in this one seems to have just realized the balloon on her interest only loan is due.
Because I post a lot of YouTube videos on my blog, I have created a playlist that compiles them all. Also, I’m putting up links to social networking-type things up on the sidebar to the right, under the search box. Things like my YouTube channel, and my Facebook page.