Month: February 2012
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starve
I’m going to remember not to eat this time. Day before yesterday, I had an appointment at the clinic to get my blood drawn for tests. I wasn’t supposed to eat anything after dinner the night before, and I remembered not to eat anything after dinner. The next morning, though, I didn’t remember anything. So… Read.
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toothy
I didn’t like Jonathan Coulton the first time I saw him in concert at the Majestic in downtown Madison. There. I said it. It was my dark secret, but now it’s out in the open. Unleash your very worst flames in the comments, I deserve them all. Paul & Storm opened for him and, after… Read.
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void
I did not dream anything last night. The last thing I remember about last night is turning out the light, rolling onto my stomach and finding just the right angle for my head before I surrendered to unconsciousness. The next thing I remember is hearing the alarm going bleep bleep bleep. There was no in-between,… Read.
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balloon
Just a guy with a ukelele. Same guy, with a guitar this time. Other guy’s got a uke. Read.
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dinah
To give you an idea what’s been going on along the Lost Continent Railway, here’s an overhead shot of the layout. Compare with April 4, 2011. In my spare time this weekend, between washing clothes and tending to a plumbing emergency, I laid twenty-four feet of track; made templates to build four of the switches… Read.
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jack
This made me smile: When he’s not jazzing up the Mario Brothers theme, or recording tunes as Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn, Jack Conte writes a lot of his own music, an eclectic mix of jazz, pop and I don’t know what else. Very hard to describe, but a lot of fun to listen to. And… Read.
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ooblek
If you like to cook, you probably know that you can thicken soup with corn starch. I don’t like to cook, but I’ve seen lots of people make gravy that way, and yet somehow I’ve been completely unaware that they were creating a non-Newtonian fluid, just like this one: Some science teachers call it “ooblek”… Read.
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apples
My Darling B is trying to work out how much we should pay in sales tax for all the purchases we make on the internet. According to what she found in the tax code, we do not have to pay sales tax for the subscription to the ISP that hosts this blog because we are… Read.
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pops
I find myself identifying with this guy, but have only the dimmest notion why that might be: Read.
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tsunami
And I thought I had some ineffable dreams: During last night’s dream, I sat with a group of friends in the luxurious atrium of a vast hotel, gleefully rejoicing that because and although the world had just stopped spinning, we were lucky to find ourselves on its sunny side, if a little late in the… Read.
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