May 2011
Guppies and flying fish →
When I watch my kids swim, I am amazed. They are unafraid. They swim better than I do, both of them. K is practically a fish, and M is diligently learning — he can swim lengths of the pool. Lengths….
April 2011
Here on Avenue Q →
J and N and I went to go see Avenue Q at the Mixed Blood Theater last night. It was a fun production. The woman playing Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut was excellent. I have no earthly idea how she…
Season one of Lost Girl →
J and I finished watching season one of the television show Lost Girl last night. The gist of the show is that, in an unnamed Canadian city, the Light and Dark Fey maintain the centuries-old truce…
Thoughts on the movie Hanna →
The movie Hanna is an odd thing. It’s a film in which every role cast could have been written for a different sex. Any of the male roles could have been cast as women, and vice-versa. Sure, you…
A random collection for your Sunday morning →
1. I am legally watching the new season of Doctor Who, buying the episodes one day late on Zune. Thank you, BBC, BBC America, and Zune, for allowing me to do this cheaply and legally in the manner…
Ghost life →
Over at The Rumpus, Dear Sugar’s column this week is called The Ghost Ship that Didn’t Carry Us. It’s about how one goes about making the irrevocable life decisions. I recommend you read it,…
Inauspicious morning →
1. It is snowing.
2. It is April 20th, and it is snowing.
For your Monday’s consideration →
1. The Rohan theme music from Lord of the Rings makes me choke up. Every time.
2. I started listening to A Game of Thrones on audiobook, mostly to piss of the New York Times.
2a. There is a…
Saturday night is for miscellaneous →
1. Tentatively, it looks like the possible new work rules to prevent controllers sleeping on shifts won’t affect me too much. Here’s hoping.
2. The season five opener of Friday Night Lights was…
My days contain many things. →
1. This morning I have made roasted root vegetables, likely for the last time this season. It’s really a cold weather food, warm and sticking to one’s digestions and feeling substantive. I also have…
Why I disliked Inception →
I watched Inception last night. I watched it for very specific reasons, knowing full well ahead of time that I was not going to like the film. I didn’t; I was bored and irritated through almost the…
Circus scheduling, an explanation →
Jim Shooter, the editor of Marvel during the years I first started reading Marvel comics, apparently used to insist that each comic be written as if it could be someone’s first comic. In every issue…
The Hymn of Breaking Strain
headpoet:
Rudyard Kipling 1935
The careful text-books measure (Let all who build beware!) The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not of the Stuff - the Man!
But, in our daily dealing With stone and steel, we find The Gods have no such feeling ...
The to-do is becoming the did →
1. I am not being furloughed! The federal government is not shutting down, I am going to work, AND I am being paid for it.
2. April and May are always a little bit scheduled-up around these parts….
Taxes, they are filed →
1. As you know if you follow me on Twitter, I had a bit of a PANIC today when I couldn’t find the papers I would need to file my taxes.
You see, I am the sort of person who puts things In A Place….
It’s what you make of it →
1. I’ve been pondering that some of my favorite creative works are terrifically flawed. (Not all of them, by any means! Sometimes I love genuinely good stuff!) There’s something in the reaching, and…
New things I am trying →
1. I made a paper.li for my Twitter feed — this will aggregate all the links my Twitter-stream posts into a newspaper-style post every 24 hours. I’ll see if I read it.
2. TweetDeck. I am using…
Saturday morning is for miscellaneous →
1. The MN FIRST Regionals were a lot of fun. There’s something about seeing 600+ teenage robot jockeys running around with INTENSE ENTHUSIASM that makes me feel good about the future. M and K had…
Robots! →
I won’t be much on the internet today. First, it’s April 1st, and I can’t believe half of what is posted. Second, I’m taking the kids out to see the Minnesota FIRST Regionals.
It’s a robotics…
