2008-11-14 15:03:26: I don't know about Portland, but up here in the Seattle area, unless we have a nice dry autumn leaves are generally a drab yellow or brown when they turn, exotic species excepted. This year we got pretty nice color but in New England the palette is much broader and ...
2008-11-02 12:44:18: Heck, I'd just be happy getting any sort of consistent sell coverage out here in the sticks. I'd love even a current iPhone or equivalent but we can't even get voice much of the time.
But, yes, I support your pony.
2008-11-02 12:45:28: Sell? I swear that any time I comment on a blog Josh runs my hands cease to obey my odors orders.
2008-10-07 16:07:54: A fisherman, then a zoologist, then a writer. Now I'm a designer and programmer. No one has ever suggested male dancer or gigolo, so I'm thankful I never have had dreams in that regard.
2008-09-27 00:02:39: I like my name. When I was growing up, I was the only one around, though it's a fairly common English name. I think it's more common in the states now, though it's used as a stand-in for a typical "common schlub" name a lot in England, I think.
My wife ...
2008-09-25 16:15:03: Bondcliff, I can't remember the music from the very similar circumstance that found me in the Hotel Cecil, but the smell of cheap perfume brings back the memory of that strip club instantly.
(I haven't been to one in the 20 years since, I imagine they would be pretty depressing now.)
2008-09-19 20:09:45: I have trouble with a few words that I have read and understand but which rarely or never come up in conversation.
Eh-pi-tome (epitome) was one. Fa-cade (façade) was another. Areola (this isn't in FF's dictionary? How come?) is another word, despite its seemingly straightforward pronunciation, that I would hesitate to ...
2008-09-11 16:53:49: A friend and I were discussing this the other day. It's a complicated question, and I have no idea what my answer would be. I'm happy in my life now, but there were long stretches where I was not--in many ways it would be almost irresistible to discover whether you ...
2008-09-11 16:15:56: The default songs that occupy my mind when I'm doing things that are fairly mindless:
* Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me, TISM
* The Wanderer, U2/Johnny Cash
* And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Eric Bogle
* The Gambler, Kenny Rogers
* Hurt, NIN/SadKermit/Cash
* Downbound Train, Springsteen
* And I Love Her, Beatles
* ...
2008-09-25 16:19:44: A faint glimpse of the townhouses we lived in, Alexandria, VA. Would have been...3? I have a lot of memories from the start of kindergarten onwards, but not a lot before that, only fairly scattered glimpses, if that.
2008-05-05 13:01:12: Lessee.
Loose dogs. Seems to be a rural thing. Dogs? "Well, hell, pardner, we just let 'em run around." A huge pain if you're walking your own dogs or jogging or whatever.
Macho dogs. Some of these loose dogs are rottweilers and pit bulls, and not the nice kind. Assholes.
Bitching about ...
2008-04-17 10:54:15: To answer the question, I think I would have to go with Adolf if Caligua wasn't on the sheet.
I was just watching a newsreel taken in 1950s England which used the word "gay" throughout in non-ironic fashion, about a man who was resolutely heterosexual but happy, so I'm not sure ...
2008-04-03 11:59:44: Is "world peace" even possible, given our collective natures?
We we ever have a largely proactive society as opposed to a reactive society?
(On a much more prosaic level, regular expressions. I understand each symbol, and I understand the basic idea, and I can even construct simple ones, but an intuitive understanding ...
2008-09-11 17:01:03: I could keep myself occupied 16 hours a day on projects in the wood shop or car shop, or here on the net or in visiting friends. So I'd be more than happy to just kick back.