A tale from my youth has been Gutenbergered: The Magic Pudding! I love the pudding’s spindly legs.
November, 2007
...now browsing by month
A digital wonderland (of pudding)
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Early best-of
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The materials selectors (aka those who buy the books and whatnot) have released an early best-of-07 list. I’m not ready to discuss my best-ofs until the last seconds of ’07, but I’m betting my list won’t be the same. Except for Sherman Alexie, of course.
C is for Charming
Monday, November 26th, 2007I’m only up to C and I must share this delightful alphabet book.
Rom en Lyon
Saturday, November 24th, 2007From reader John, a photo essay on the Romany in Lyon, France.
Drugs problem: sorted.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007I think I’ve figured out why the UK has a drug problem: this anti-drug ad. It makes me want to take fistfuls of drugs. Although it also makes me want to go rambling. Just like Trainspotting!
Grocery shopping
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Looks like somebody‘s finally (though I think it’s not the first such service) doing the obvious thing: putting grocery circulars on line. There are some cool-sounding auxiliary features, too. I don’t know how good its knowledge of where you are is; it was pretty close to correct from work.
But daaaaad!
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Southwest Custer County, Nebraska, 1892
“Yes, you will play the bass.”
“But dad, I can’t reach all the notes!”
“Don’t ‘but dad’ me, young man, I paid for it, now you’ll play it!”
“Awwww, maaaaaan.”
Sherman Alexie gives me a boner
Monday, November 19th, 2007From The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian:
“But you should approach each book — you should approach life — with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”
“A metaphorical boner!” I shouted. “What the heck is a metaphorical boner?”
Gordy laughed.
“When I say boner, I really mean joy,” he said.
“Then why don’t you say joy? You didn’t have to say boner. Whenever I think about boners, I get confused.”
“Boner is funnier. And more joyful.”
Sometimes it's more bookmarks than blog
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Lifehacker tells us how to get audio off a DVD.
Eric Saunders tells us how to strip ID tags from an MP3.
Because he's delightful, dammit!
Monday, November 12th, 2007I shall force you to go through Graham Linehan, because he is quite delightful, to take a look at some information about and contents of a gem from Simpsons’ writers’ past: Army Man magazine.
