"Asimov wrote 400 books, but he didn't have to contend with writing his own Web backend to index, typeset, and publish 'em. Also he didn't talk about himself nearly as much as I do."

- Kibo, January 16, 2006

Playing with an online dictionary, this gave me a bit of a laugh...

catholic

\Cath"o*lic\ (k[a^]th"[-o]*[i^]k), a. [L. catholicus, Gr. kaqoliko`s, universal, general; kata` down, wholly + "o`los whole, probably akin to E. solid: cf. F. catholique.]...

2. Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

Today was the 100th birthday/anniversary of one of my idols -- the brightest of the bright young things, the one and only Tallulah Bankhead. Star of photographs, silents, talkies, then radio and television. She smoked six packs a day, drank two bottles bourbon a day, and snorted coke like it was air -- thus leading to her pneumonia, influenza or ( Read more... )