Mary Robinette Kowal, recent winner of the Campbell Award and long-time awesome human being, has a new story online at Apex: “Scenting the Dark.” I post the link here because (1) it’s a terrific story, one of the best I’ve read in a long time, and (2) I plan to …
First game of the season is this evening, and we’re debuting half of a new stadium. Should be quite nice. Have a barbecue at a neighbor’s house before that, which should be a lot of fun, especially since their house backs up to the parade route where the cadets will …
Just watched Obama’s DNC speech. I might be a Bull Moose supporter, but THAT was why I voted for Obama in the primary last spring. If you haven’t done your homework to check out the facts of the candidates, please do so. As he just made potently clear, we’re long …
Someone just complained about how my website needed a navigation thing at the bottom of my homepage’s list of posts — you know, to get earlier posts beyond the eight that show on the front page. So … voila! And now someone is complaining about me needing to go to …
We were out pretty early yesterday morning, taking the Hobbit to his first swim lesson, so we decided to stop by K-Mart to see if they had a Wii Fit in stock — the just-released game and balance board accessory for the beloved Wii entertainment system. K-Mart opened at 8. …