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This does not usually happen to me.  I do not, as a rule, become conflicted about things - do something, don’t do something, make up my mind and get on with my life.  I try, most of the time, to be a person of action - I don’t tend to over analyze or overthink things.

But, ( Read more... )

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There’s an article over at Momtourage.com, which usually has its head screwed on straight, that SOBUMD reviewed, retched, and had the Human Tape Recorder read as well.  She also made gagging noises, and I was forced to step in.  The article purports to review 15 things that ( Read more... )

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This past February 8th, Google posted the coolest “Google Doodle” mini-app EVER (and there’s a hi-res version of it here).  Jules Verne was one of my boyhood heroes - one of the best books I read in my youth was Around the World in 80 Days, which given my life as an Air ( Read more... )

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In the catagory of questions I don’t want to be fielding after ten pm, Number One Son came downstairs last night, “Mommy, Daddy, what does lascivious mean?”

Oh god. What the heck are you reading?

“My Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary. What about a lascivious mouth? What’s ( Read more... )

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So there we were, Number One Son and I, talking to his teacher’s husband at an after-hours school function. This is supposed to be a dance where he has YET ANOTHER chance to interact with his peers, by which I would like to mean “people his age” but should probably amend to ( Read more... )

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Robert Asprin passed away a few days ago.  If you don’t know who he was, this won’t impact you.  If you do, then you’ll probably know this already…

He’ll be myth’d.

Robert Asprin passed away a few days ago.  If you don't know who he was, this won't impact you.  If you do, then you'll probably know this already...

He’ll be myth’d.

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First, we doff our propeller beanie hats at the passing of one of the greats, perhaps the last of the dinosaurs.  Hard core science fiction has known giants, and Arthur C. Clarke, who died on Wednesday at the age of 90, was one of the last of the greats, upon whose shoulders ( Read more... )

First, we doff our propeller beanie hats at the passing of one of the greats, perhaps the last of the dinosaurs.  Hard core science fiction has known giants, and Arthur C. Clarke, who died on Wednesday at the age of 90, was one of the last of the greats, upon whose shoulders I am not worthy to stand.  Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Frank ( Read more... )