A LEGO car came in my box of Cheerios. I’ve had it sitting on my desk since Friday. It came preassembled. I’ve rolled it back and forth. It came with stickers. That seemed odd. I’ve taken the car apart. It’s three pieces. Premolded pieces. A wheel piece in black. A body piece in yellow. AContinue reading “On LEGO Cars and Standards”
Author Archives: Allyn
On April’s Statistics
It’s a dreary day, I have laundry in the washing machine, and I’m in a writing-avoidance mode. Which is as good an excuse as any to discuss what people were interested in from me for the month of April. 😉 Some jiggery and pokery with Analog accomplished, here’s what we’ve got. The top search phrasesContinue reading “On April’s Statistics”
On Things I Did On Friday
I was in a Scottish mood yesterday. My RSS feed reader told me that the latest episode of Scotland Introducing, a podcast devoted to unsigned Scottish indie bands, was available. I followed that, throughout the day, by listening to Idlewild, Camera Obscura, Y’All Is Fantasy Island, and I’m probably forgetting one or two other ScottishContinue reading “On Things I Did On Friday”
On Adam
Sometimes at work I have to scour movie trailer websites, to try and figure out what’s new and interesting coming out, so I can write a “link article” for work. So, while digging through Yahoo! Movies, I came across this: Adam. (Unfortunately, that version isn’t embeddable. You’ll have to clink the link. Or you canContinue reading “On Adam”
More on The Leisure Society
And people looking for information on The Leisure Society, a band I discovered by random chance a month ago, who has been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for their song “The Last of the Melting Snow,” continue to point their web browsers my way. Today, people are wanting the lyrics to “The Sleeper.” WhichContinue reading “More on The Leisure Society”
On URLs as Written by Charles Dickens
Imagine, for a moment, that Charles Dickens wrote URLs. For the non-technical, a URL is a website address. A “Universal Resource Locator.” I presume you’re reading this from http://www.allyngibson.com/, though there are other places and other ways you might have found your way here. But, again, let us suppose that Charles Dickens wrote URLs. WeContinue reading “On URLs as Written by Charles Dickens”
On the Death of Earthworms
There were no earthworms on the sidewalks this morning. A few weeks ago, when spring’s showers began, I could have been forgiven for thinking that it was earthworms, not raindrops, that fell from the skies. The sidewalks, the two blocks from the light rail station to the blue skyscraper where I work, were as drownedContinue reading “On the Death of Earthworms”
On General Obliviousness
At work yesterday, two colleagues were talking loudly. I had my headphones on. I was writing marketing copy and studying pictures of Slave Leia outfits (work related, honest!). I heard, or I thought I heard, one of my colleagues say, “This is how The Stand began.” Naturally, I was curious. I dropped my headphones. “TheContinue reading “On General Obliviousness”
On the Weekend’s Writing
Someone visited my website today, using a Google search on the phrase “What if your doctor tells you your brain is mush?” Sadly, I am not a doctor, and I can’t tell you what will happen if your brain is, in fact, mush. I can’t imagine it’s anything good, if you do have a mushyContinue reading “On the Weekend’s Writing”
On My Writing Routine
I have a writing hat. As a writer, I have a routine, much like athletes have routines to put on their game face. For me, it involves putting on a beaten-up baseball cap. It’s a white baseball cap. Says “Richmond Baseball” on it. It has a blue bill. The only significance to it is thatContinue reading “On My Writing Routine”