Today I saw the first crocus. So much for the calendar - it is officially spring ( Read more... )

What a lovely little video.

I'm not particularly making a statement, I just thought it was neat.

Geoffrey's account of the Basque settling in Ireland is basically Bede's account of the Picts settling Scotland, only backwards ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, all! I finally opened the last of my 300 books I got for my birthday...two and a half years ago. Success! Now I can buy books again!

Unfortunately the computer I was storing my catalogue on seems to have given up on me. Since I own over 1400 books, I really don't want to have to do it over again ( Read more... )

* Happy 30th birthday to the man I love ( Read more... )

Includes pictures of pumpkins!

( Thursday )

In roughly reverse order:

The Walking Dead: Huzzah! "The Walking Dead" is back! I had forgotten how much I abhor Laurie. I kinda hope she gets eaten by zombies, except that it would suck for poor Rick, and he deserves better. (Season 1 is on Netflix, by the way - go watch it, now). I have hopes for this season, although this first episode ( Read more... )

Parts of The Skystone are very Atlas Shrugged. The dystopain aspects, not the didactic aspects. There was just a bit about merchants (specifically, shippers) dropping out after the government started requiring them to continue operating at a loss. This was taken as the clinching proof that Rome was failing ( Read more... )

Last night we had a power outage for absolutely no reason. It was a hot dry September day, and then, suddenly, no power. There wasn't any wind or anything. Can you get power outages from it simply being Too Hot ( Read more... )

Finished up Paradise Towers. It turns out it's a Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta ( Read more... )