Monthly Archives: September 2010

Yesterday, while discussing email addresses over coffee with a friend, I found myself reminiscing about my early days as an AOL subscriber. This was relatively early in the email game for most people outside of technical or academic settings. Back … Continue reading →

The commenting problem is fixed.  Sort of.  Turns out it was not so much a Blogger problem as a FireFox problem.  When I use Safari, I can actually comment.  Thanks to datagoddess who mentioned that she had to change from … Continue reading →

I just wish I had seen it when it was first written in 2004 —  I could have used it a lot since then:Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s “Things I Believe.” There is far too much to quote extensively, but one statement … Continue reading →

We here at WWF love T.S. Eliot.*  And good parodies of T.S. Eliot, too.  Having already presented “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, as Rewritten for Frat Boys” some time ago, it now falls to us to introduce all … Continue reading →

As it stands, your choices are either 1) keep hiding, and die a slow death of starvation, or 2) wait until nightfall, try to escape, and die a quicker but much more violent death at the paws of one or … Continue reading →

You really need to start posting about something other than your psyche.  You may be interesting, but you’re not that interesting.

All I can hear in my brain is Cole Porter’s “It’s Too Darned Hot,” from Kiss Me, Kate. (No thanks for the earworm, Cole.)  This post both sums up how I’m feeling today, and reminds me how much worse things … Continue reading →

I have a lot of music on my iTunes.  Maybe not a lot by most people’s standards, but I think so: 1953 items (and that after I purged about 100 songs this morning, to make room for the latest episode … Continue reading →

Blogger is not letting me make comments.  I have heard from other people that it is not letting them make comments, either.  Looking at the help boards, it appears this has been affecting a number of blogs and there has … Continue reading →

I have an idea for a NaNoWriMo plot! It’s not very good, tending toward the maudlin and soap-operish (and I’m not going to reveal it here).  It should be fun to write, though. I already have rough physical descriptions of … Continue reading →

Come on, come onIt’s getting late nowCome on, come onHold my handCome on, come onYou just have to whisperCome on, come onI will understand Mary Chapin Carpenter “Come On, Come On” I am not an album person.  I don’t have … Continue reading →

I was sitting looking at a friend’s email address this morning and going…. “Hmmm.  Oookay…. I really wonder where that came from?”  While a lot of people have variations on their names and or initials, followed often by whatever string … Continue reading →

I really should never watch clips of Fox News, even when they are being offered by friends to show that even Republicans know racism when they see it.*  Because I get distracted. In this case by the fact that everyone … Continue reading →

On Monday, I walked the labyrinth at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.  Like the sea, this is a centering ritual for me. In popular argot, “labyrinth” is synonymous with “maze.”  It is not, not in the spiritual sense.  A maze … Continue reading →

So once again we reach September 19th, “International Talk Like a Pirate Day.” It is a stupid idea.  Real pirates raped and pillaged and, in their present day incarnations, continue to threaten ships and seamen, primarily off the coast of … Continue reading →