Category Archives: nothing special

I am a large woman.  I am a very large woman. I have been so for a much of my life.* One of my experiences has been a feeling that I am somehow nonexistent.  It is a hard thing to … Continue reading →

After watching the Oscars, I need to see… The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (both versions)PinaUndefeatedPurgatoryRangoBeginnersWar HorseThe Iron LadyThe DescendantsPlus the live-action and documentary shorts (I saw the animated shorts last week) I have seen two of the performances that … Continue reading →

Having seen his Grammy 2011 performance (with its Elton John homage), and his work on The Voice [Edited to add; especially his asides with his fluffy white cat], I have come to the conclusion that… Cee Lo Green is a … Continue reading →

I would like to make a post about each of them, but lately I have a) been sort of pre-occupied with other things and so not posting a lot of substance, and b) working on three long and substantive posts … Continue reading →

Lately, my song has been Cee Lo’s “F*** You” or its clean remake “Forget You,” which makes up in acceptability to be played in the car loudly what it loses in cathartic power. Although the specifics don’t match up to … Continue reading →

I have been thinking a lot about privacy lately.  I have a very lengthy post on the subject which I periodically return to, spawned in part by the privacy symposium I went to, the changes in Google’s Privacy Policy coming … Continue reading →

The Rocket Scientist is heavily into genealogy.  I actually think this is great; somebody needs to do it, and I have neither the inclination nor the patience.  This week’s tidbit? That he (and by extension, the kids) are distantly related … Continue reading →

Sitemeter offers various information about the people who visit this site.  Since I refuse to shell out the money to get the Premium Service, the information is very general (i.e., it gives a location of the server you’re using — … Continue reading →

Remember that empirical test I did about whether a post deleted in Blogger would be deleted in Google Reader?  I decided to take it to the logical conclusion, and see how far back Google Reader went.  After all, at some … Continue reading →

The Rocket Scientist is not particularly enthralled with my new music. He really did not like Cee Lo’s “F*** You,”* and was only slightly more interested in the bowdlerized version. He liked Adele okay, but did not seem to be … Continue reading →

At a recent concert, Miranda Lambert held up a sign made by a fan which read “Take notes, Chris Brown” just before she launched into “Gunpowder & Lead.” The song is about a woman waiting on her porch with a … Continue reading →

I have a very small* readership.  Looking at my Blogger stats, most of my posts get, oh, 10-12 hits the week after they are posted.**  If it is an important post they can get a few times that over a … Continue reading →

Today the Starbucks I was at was out of sea salt for the salted caramel mocha.  I was annoyed at this, but mostly because I had paid for a SCM, and was only handed a caramel mocha.  I complained about … Continue reading →

In my “Beautiful, again” post I identified “obsessive pursuit of given objectives” to be a flaw.  I never meant this to be work or art objectives.  I meant things like… 1000km through Bavaria in a day.  Going from St. Louis … Continue reading →

There is nothing like getting up early so your kid can carmelize the sugar on the tops of the creme brulee he is taking in to school for his French class. The hardest part is getting said kid awake enough … Continue reading →