I hadn’t intended to ask for money on this blog …

August 14th, 2007

But perhaps I could put this on my wish list?

I read the paperback years ago

August 13th, 2007

It was one of the few science fiction novels I knew of that was set in Denver (at least partly). Now, it’s a webcomic.

This sounds sinister

August 13th, 2007

It’s Left-Hander’s Day. It also signifies a week of bad luck. Probably not related, though.

Probably.

A simple, yet profound, truth

August 13th, 2007

Now, this is just my opinion, but if your money-handling skills are so poor that you can’t even make a profit selling sex, then you have absolutely no business getting involved in more complicated financial areas.

“Scammus CDXIX!”

August 13th, 2007

It appears that there is no longer any need to read the books to see how it all turned out.

Stormy weather

August 8th, 2007

Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog has an interesting post about storm frequency and the claims of various climate change advocates.

And, on the subject of storms, it’s been raining a lot here, lately. This is what one of my planters currently looks like:

Drowned

If I did this …

August 8th, 2007

I would so die, not to mention endanger everyone around me. BoingBoing had a link to this guy racing a motorcycle down a hill, but this is a more informative video. Too bad I can’t understand French.

In another video (poorer quality than this one), he says a suit costs almost 3000 Euro. That’s a lot.

Here is the inventor’s site. Weird, but cute, interface.

UPDATE: Trying to embed the original video caused problems with my site; I’m just going to provide a link to it now.

If it hadn’t been for the divorce …

August 7th, 2007

I’d be celebrating my 25th anniversary today, and probably be in trouble for not having remembered it far enough in advance to have made appropriate plans.

There are stories

August 7th, 2007

… and then there are sea stories.

I was never near Diego Garcia or in the brown-shoe Navy myself, but this brings back memories.

It was a dark and stormy night

August 6th, 2007

So I curled up with a bad book.