Posted in Backstory, Food, tagged Dansk, festive meals, redeeming moments, rioja wines, something old something new, thanksgiving day on 30 November, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So here is what it looked like: old and new together.
Gilt-edged plates bought by my great grandmother on installments during the Depression [I think], the Dansk cutlery from when I finished graduate school, a Formica table from my parents [it once was our kitchen table, and I did my grade school homework on it] [...]
Posted in CopterCopter, travel, tagged airborne, Center City, crime, police work, skyline, UK views of the US on 28 November, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Apparently, TV producers in the UK think Philly is intriguing, terribly dangerous, and worthy of documentary study. May I say that the use of “in the hood” in a BBC news article just sounds wrong?
Link to BBC article
It’s a cool, sunny, post-Thanksgiving morning here in Elsinore. I’m thinking wandering down to the market [...]
Posted in My brain, tactless observations, tagged Blackberry bashing, disappointments, failed Storm, iPhone lust, new technology, smartphones on 26 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Courtesy of David Pogue and the NY Times:
“BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression
By DAVID POGUE 3:16 PM ET
The first sign of trouble for the new BlackBerry Storm was the concept: a touchscreen BlackBerry.
Posted in Food, Uncategorized, tagged building relationships through cooking, cooking, family, Food, home, normality, proper care of pets, recipes for love, reflections on 24 November, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Back before my Beloved and I were courting, I was house-sitting at a place where there were some fairly traumatized animals. Their people had gone away, and the first house-sitter turned out to be a bit [!] more flighty than had originally been anticipated….so the animals were lonely, neglected, having accidents, getting into fights [...]
Posted in Festival of Bad Writing, tactless observations, tagged assessment, bad writing, crimes against comprehension, essays, faculty humility, too late -- they're already in the workforce!, undergraduate essays, wanting a beer very badly on 23 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, well we haven’t had one of these posts in a while. One of the side effects of cleaning is that I sometimes find stashes of terrible sentences. These have to be at least ten years old, so the people involved are perhaps already doing things like filling your prescriptions, providing occupational therapy, [...]
Posted in My brain, tactless observations, tagged autumn Valentines, bachelor weekend, confuse-a-cat, DIY insulation, hearts, Ring Day, snow, without a net on 23 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are things that are easier to do without a spouse at home. In my case, these things include cleaning snits and home maintenance. So yesterday, two windows got sheathed in shrinkwrap, and several radiators got Reflectixed. The living room is more comfortable already.
Of course, it would be nice if she was here [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gospel music, joy not as the world gives, rhodies, snow on flowers on 22 November, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“This joy I have
The world didn’t give it to me
The world didn’t give it
The world can’t take it away.”
– The Steele Sisters, singing on A Prairie Home Companion
Posted in Backstory, My brain, tactless observations, tagged cat hoarding, parasite theories, someone's missed a variable, too many kitties, Toxoplasmosis effects, warped culture, who's in charge here? on 21 November, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m posting this here so I remember to think about it later [it's being that kind of morning]. I knew that some parasites could affect the behaviors of their hosts, , and idly wondered if “cat hoarding” an example of that effect in humans. But I think the researcher in the article below may [...]
Posted in Backstory, Festival of Bad Writing, Language failure, Musing about Teaching, My brain, tactless observations, tagged bad writing in lab reports, Drosophila melanogaster, Ether frolics, fruit flies like a banana, lab reports, laboratory life, when experiments go wrong on 18 November, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s one of my all-time favorite lab report conclusions. Yes, this was during the time I was coaching biology students and this was the lab of students who allowed so many of the banana-gunk bottles to overpopulate with Drosophila to the point adult flies were escaping [overflowing, actually] the bottles and contaminating other people’s [...]
