No more snow at lake level. The lake is cold! Perhaps just a tad warmer than Lola Montez was last week. A hot day though. One person canceled because of possible thunder showers. We just had some in Reno over the last few minutes. It hasn't cooled things down much.

( Week in review )

Where indeed? I've been ice skating, anyway, at least weekdays. Weekends are a little rough with the later opening time and warmer weather. There has been one holiday party, December 4. I broke down and made the meatless enchiladas from Diet for a Small Planet finally after a few years of sticking with salads. I've also been getting rid of malware ( Read more... )

Well, what to say about The Buttcracker 3: The Resurrection: A Parody in the Spirit of the Ridiculous Created by the Brüka Ensemble? The title says it all. The humor is based partly on cross-dressing and other strange costuming and really weird dance numbers set to the music of the Nutcracker. It's fun, though I have to say a bit silly, too. I'll ( Read more... )

The opener was okay. I wouldn't call it great. It kind of gathered together bits of information that have been floating around. It didn't delve too deeply into things. It was interesting to see some of the old Edison movies. I didn't stay up for all of them, and some of them I have seen, as, indeed, they've been floating around for awhile. ( Read more... )

Obama came into his presidency with more wind in his sails than perhaps anyone since Johnson in 1964, and this for a black man with an Islamic name, no less. He then blew it, utterly and completely.
--David Michael Green

What is most remarkable about this entire controversy, however, is the level of official hysteria that it has generated.
--Bill ( Read more... )

Well, there was an excellent vegetarian food demonstration last night. Ash might post some recipes somewhere sometime. He's planning on creating his own blog so I'll have to wait for that. There was an interesting book recommendation made. If I get really serious about raw food I will have to look into it.

( A mish-mash of stuff left over from the past couple of weeks )

So I dropped by a meeting of a local book club to see if I might suggest a book or two for reading. Unfortunately the books I had in mind the local library doesn't have in stock which pretty much takes them out of the running. There's not much of a budget to get books that don't have some kind of popular appeal, although some mighty bizarre ( Read more... )

Happy New Year

( Keeping track of the times, for my own sanity, or whatever )

The new movie's dubious art as an exercise in sixties nostalgia is that it destroys the best of what it would have us remember. And it does this without our noticing. The uncritical response to this movie has been astounding. So let me remind you: until now, the two power sources making the Star Trek franchise go have been sex and intellect and the ( Read more... )

Alumni weekend went well. I didn't really need these few days to recover from it. Work is just getting awfully busy, but not in a good way. It is redundantly busy, very labor intensive, copying material that's already done by different company computer systems. All we are doing is taking twice the time to do the same thing. I find it really quite ( Read more... )