The backwash of the revived Hurricane Kyle has been drenching our area off and on for the last few days. Every so often, the ivory-colored sunlight graces the stonework of the nearby church, and then another crop of clouds swoops along, maybe dimming the light, or maybe just giving a more dramatic backdrop to the [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Storms and sneezing
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are days I’m libertarian
Posted in Musing about Teaching, tactless observations, tagged bailouts, Chinese milk scandal, free market, libertarian, mojo, obligations, rhetoric and truth, stock market woes on 26 September, 2008 | 2 Comments »
[other days I'm just a libertine....]
The following may exhibit some philosophical inconsistencies, which will be a shame, since it’s partly inconsistency that I’m irritated about. I plead having a sinus infection as my reason for being a little flakey. Heaven only knows what the bedrock excuse the folks in Washington and Wall Street have for [...]
A Poisson… could develop a cold…
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am supposed to be across the state tomorrow, for a much-needed weekend retreat. Whatever organism is responsible for my current upper respiratory distress had other ideas. Many Kleenex(r) have died. Much violent sneezing. Many bad words have been muttered. (We will not dwell on the morning vertigo).
While I sniffle, here are some things that [...]
Dry observation on a wet night
Posted in Uncategorized on 25 September, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“You know,” says my Beloved, as the same 7 or 8 second instrumental plays in the background of the PBS documentary for the umpteenth time, “That’s all the music that they paid for….”
You’d think with all the different nostalgia-act pledge break fodder they recycle on PBS, someone would have managed a licensing deal for something….
The Union of the Snake(s) is in my yard
Posted in Gardening, tagged 80's music, gardening for habitat, northern brown snake, say no to mow, union of the snake on 22 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and they show no signs of groovin’ it to the borderline, probably because the neighbors might scream and kill them. What we have is a family of Northern brown snakes (Storeria dekayi dekayi), who apparently live on earthworms, crickets, and other small invertebrates, of which we now have a thriving population, thanks to lax [...]
Since I haven’t had time…
Posted in Uncategorized on 19 September, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To regale you with student gaffes, here are some from the British Isles:
http://tinyurl.com/3wks8m
Also, lovely photography:
http://tinyurl.com/3vuev4
Make mine a Molotov….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cats in advertising, Cookin' Cheap, eclectric oil, molotov cocktails, southern culture on the skids, the woman is always right, things that can go wrong with Saturns on 19 September, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When your Beloved repeatedly says, “I smell gasoline” when she enters or exits your vehicle, it behooves you to pay the hell attention, particularly if you have a cold and can’t smell much of anything. At first, I thought it was some malingering side effect from the overdose of daisy-fresh air conditioning cleaner they’d [...]
The Monster Mash, or the perils of multitasking
Posted in tactless observations, tagged Warhammer online, BBC, Years of Yarncraft, Sluggy Freelance, my favorite gardener, mash-ups, sing-alongs, gratuitous owl on 18 September, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Midnight Gardener has a music widget (ee-i, ee-i, oh!), and sometimes I leave that page open while I do other things, so I can continue to listen to the nice tunes.
Of course, that doesn’t always go with the rest of my reading or viewing; to whit [or tooo-whu!]:
The BBC has a trailer for the [...]
Disco lighting optional….
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, Filking, Rennovations, tactless observations, tagged construction, Dionne Warwick, Filking, Glitter, jargon dictionaries on 17 September, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As the plaster falls in the bathroom, one of my contractors says “You still teach technical writing? You should look at Buzzwhack.com.”
He used to sell security software, and tells of assorted verbal sins, many of which he would record to compare with colleagues after sales calls. I told him about faculty Gr’bingo games, where we’d [...]
