From 1916, a book that tells you all about the kind of thrift where you pay less money instead of more, Adventures in Thrift. Yes, the tips are told as the thrifty adventures of Mrs. Larry! “Mrs. Larry was not her real name. She was Mrs. Lawrence Hall, born Gregory, christened Elizabeth Ellen, but from […]

As all educated folk know, love is addictive as hell, and simply a trick your body and brain chemistry play on you to get you to spawn. Still, it’s more fun than the alternative.

From the jacket of the book Letters to Henrietta, another potential miracle cure: “Until the middle-aged, unmarried Isabella Bird (1831-1904) left her native Scotland for an independent life of travel, she was debilitated by illness, suffering from “neuralgia, pain in my bones, pricking like pins and needles in my limbs, excruciating nervousness, exhaustion, inflamed eyes, […]

musicplasma tells me that Norah Jones is close to almost all my favorite artists. As with many such "if you like this, try this" tools, it has an inadequate understanding (or perhaps representation) of the many ways two things can be similar (or one thing can be different). The belief that someone who likes Queen […]

I was wandering through Vonda McIntyre’s site the other day, and ran across her list of pitfalls for writers. Then Pat Holt‘s Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See showed up on Blogdex. Maybe someone’s actually trying to literally tell me something.

I’ve always liked the idea of a hot tub without all the fuss and expense, so had my eye on furo-type heater that can be hooked up to a tank of your choice, such as an affordable stock tank. I don’t know how I feel about the Ikea-like plastic tub-ette, but check out the convection […]

Scanner art is cool. And sometimes goofy.

I hadn’t looked at McSweeney’s for a while. Here are some jokes somebody may not have remembered quite right. For reasons that don’t bear scrutiny, I also found this pretty funny. I found the idea of it even funnier than the execution, though.

Opera sopranos’ excellent pitch comes at the expense of clarity. The only reason I mention this is because the article provides today’s Bonus Phrase: "fleshy tunnel".

Every so often, I feel obligated to remind myself and others that I really am a geek (yes, it’s probably hard to forget). To that end, Groklaw is the place to go if you want to know the latest in SCO’s battle to drive themselves out of business by attacking Linux users everywhere.