Archive for August, 2008
some posts don’t lend themselves to snappy titles
As much as For Better or For Worse has been annoying me lately, today’s strip is really powerful – it’s the communion between a bride at the beginning of a joyful marriage (so Johnston tells us) and an old women who may be at the end of one that gets me. I did a bad [...]
when the people want change, get out of the way
My body is anything but subtle. Tomorrow will definitely be a rest day – I planned it anyway, but today’s erg split and the feeling of walking up to my fourth-floor office this morning made the need for one crystal clear. I am now in week 1 of the second 4-week cycle. This cycle I [...]
too much to fit
There was that time when seeing stars before night fell, from the bottom of a hole that once was a missile silo. The missile’s gone, but the menace remains – yet the stars shine down that hole. And that time when watching the penguins chasing each other, warbling, hopping and sliding, peering over the edge [...]
up in the air again
We went back to right near last week’s beach hotel this past Saturday for paragliding. The plan was to see if we could start training to do it on our own. They have too many students for that and told us to come back next month, but we were able to take tandem flights (me, [...]
bye, Doug
A couple days ago, I learned that Denver Doug is gone. I wrote out aomse words in tribute but somehow they got lost before I posted them. I’m not really sorry he’s gone, in a way: I’ll miss him, many others will miss him, and all my sympathies are with his wife Heather, who has [...]
on the path to mighty
The beach trip was good – not great, but good. The hotel wasn’t the five-star resort it claimed, but I didn’t expect it to be. But it was clean and nice and comfortable, and if the food at the “Mediterranean” buffet owed more to the Pacific coast than the Mediterranean one, still all the seafood [...]
writing about not writing
I said I was going to post duplicates of my writings elsewhere here, didn’t I? Yet the stuff on Avontuur is easy enough to access, for anyone who wants to read it (most recently: complaints about Olympic coverage on Taiwanese TV, accounts of dinner on top of Taipei 101 and of a massage at a [...]
oops
Not good. I began my day by knocking a full mug of tea onto my desk. Apparently enough of it hit my computer to kill it; it will be going to the shop to have the keyboard and motherboard replaced and a separate shop will be attempting to recover data from the hard drive. Unfortunately [...]
readerware, new hair
Readerware betrayed me! One of the things I use it for is to export the database onto my PDA so that while I’m in a bookstore I can look and see if I always have a book. This is particularly useful for long series, for instance figuring out whic of the 20+ Discworld books I [...]
stuff I’ve been making
Note that a lot of the earrrings are’nt on earwires yet, just because I don’t have that many. If you look carefully you’ll see that in a couple places I’ve experimented with making my own (those are the ones where the silver balls keep sliding out of place and in one case I hung the [...]