Every so often, I have occasion to see parking lots near Meydenbauer Center, and when they’re especially full, I wonder what’s going on. Today’s event makes me want to register and attend, if only because who doesn’t love convenience stores?
In anticipation of the library awards season (middle of this month), here’s my favorite reads from the past year. Teen: Peeps Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History A Certain Slant of Light Mummies: the newest, coolest & creepiest from around the world Adult: Assassination Vacation (on audio) Extraordinary exhibitions: the wonderful remains of an enormous head, […]
Furthering FP’s historical squirrel research: Delaware Weekly Advertiser and Farmer’s Journal; January 31, 1828; Issue 20; col B Mr. A.S. Bugbee, of Northampton, has contrived a method of turning to account the natural activity of the common grey squirrel. “He has,” says the Northampton Post, “a common cylindrical cage with wire bars, about three feet […]
We haven’t explicity plugged Overheard in New York (featured in Stuff We Like), but it’s frequently treatful, and I found one of today’s quotes terribly sweet.
From the description of a propane space heater: “30K BTU Blue Flame Prpane Space Heater makes supplemental heating fast and easy. Built in Oxygen Depletion Sensor for unparalleled safety. Can easily be operated during power failure. Cool touch cabinet keeps you far away from burnt concerns.” Wow, I hate it when I burn my concerns.
Dzur, Brust. Yes. Brust uses a couple devices in this installment near the limits of what they’ll tolerate, aggravated by my belief that the parallel construction (device one) seems to exist only to help justify the weak tie of the action to the title (device two). That (minor, really) distraction aside, this is a Vlad […]
Since we live in an area with a minimum of grisly murders and appalling scandals, local news has to make due with storms to whip themselves into a frenzy. I have yet to tune in to find out what this storm has been named. Consumer Corner: The recommended products for your several days without power […]
As hesitant as I would normally be to buy something from a “Mr. McGroovy,” his box rivets have riveted me. Now I want to build huge structures out of cardboard liberated from the recycle dumpster at work.
Wikipedia finally got an updated page about Forced Perspective. It’s still not exhaustive, omitting at least still photography, but it at least acknowledges the architectural uses. If I were a better person, I would update it instead of whining; but if I were that person, I would have updated it a couple years ago.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Brooks. Yes. The various editing (and, I hope, proofing) problems (some typos, two unrelated occurrences of "a millenia", on ne passé pas for on ne passe pas (again, at least twice)) and occasional lapses into preaching were not enough to discourage me from deeply enjoying […]