Dinner at The Elephant Walk tonight with Kate and Glen. The restaurant wasn’t too busy, and our waitress had enough in her to joke around with us. The food was, as usual, awesome, and it being Kate’s first time brought back the mix of amazement and salivary amazement from my first time eating [...]
Three bumperstickers on the same Camry, observed on the way to work this morning:
“Behind every successful woman / is herself”
“Life’s a Witch / and then you Fly”
“Republican Women Make Great Leaders / You’re following one now”
Mars Face
We’ve had several days in a row of high winds up here, which has carved the snow into some striking shapes. Today we’re getting another 10 inches to soften and cover the shapes, but I tromped out Thursday, over lunch, to snap a few pics. This [...]
Wired News: Battle for the Belle of Amherst
There are days I’m proud of my species, my culture, the region of the country I live in, and technology’s as-yet unrealized potential.
Then came the idea to put the player in the role of Dickinson’s therapist. The game, he said, would be stored on a USB flash drive.
“As [...]
There are certain pots I own which maintain, despite fierce, blue-rubber-gloved, soap-sudsy mayhem, stubbornly retain a very faint echo of the last thing cooked in them. The wraith of the previous meal only comes out the next time the pot gets heated up or has water put in it (much like swimmers will smell [...]