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Mom.
I adored you when I was a kid... I even thought you were the bee's knees when I was a teen-ager.
I sure would have liked to have known you as an adult.
I miss you. -
A tiny mystery...
In setting up the web presence for DarkCon, I've discovered that twitter.com/darkcon is already registered ( Read more... ) -
It's that darned evolution thing...
Some time ago, I posited a theory among friends that there were key consistencies in purely superficial traits between basically all other subgroups of humans that were notably different in the European subgroup ( Read more... ) -
Skeletons!
As many of you know, I'm well pretty down with the skeletons. I love skeletons. I love the word 'Skeletons'. I love bones. I love art with bones, I love drawing bones, I keep interesting bones around... You get the idea ( Read more... ) -
Logs to Strawberries.
A little while ago, a friend on Facebook started a list of things she knew, deep down, were real... But that she still doubted, on some level. Roadrunners, platypuses, & tater tots all made her list ( Read more... ) -
I feel like such a failure...
I completely missed doing anything here for 1 April. So I'm pre-dating this as a monument to my failure.
April First pranks feed my soul... And as God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again! -
(Purchasing) Power to the People!
I got an email today about the container ship Emma MærskIt gives us a whole bunch of photos of the ship - she's really quite an amazing feat of engineering - and then gives us a mess of statistics - almost all just slightly incorrect... I don't know why, but these kinds of emails almost always get the details just slightly to more than a little ( Read more... ) -
Mind Control...
A newly met friend - a wonderful person and damned cute to boot - got herself diatribed at the other day because she mentioned - verbatim - that someone had called her a "fucking loser". Naturally, the Language Police came to tell her she was a bad sheep, and they brought back-up ( Read more... ) -
Your daily scripture:
Please open your texts to the Book of Genocide, Chapter One, verse Twenty-Six. And we begin ( Read more... ) -
Standards
Remember the fiction snippet thing,'rough draft', from before? Had a thought about one today... Barely a snippet, but still.
He was a man of unwavering principals and uncompromisable standards: There were simply some things he would not do for money...
Unfortunately, work was one of them.