MSNBC’s Chris Hayes talks about tying neckties. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Let me say that I’m unimpressed with Hayes’ necktie knot. 🙂 It’s nothing personal. I’m just picky when it comes to neckties and their knots. I taught myself how to tie a tie. The reason? IContinue reading “On Necktie Knots”
Category Archives: Asides
On My Last Visit to the Library
I grew up around books. My dad was a college librarian before he retired. Mainly special collections, but he was also a library director for a number of years as well. Suffice it to say, I was never not around books. I remember a summer, maybe when I was nine or ten, that I decidedContinue reading “On My Last Visit to the Library”
On Making TrekBBS Readable
TrekBBS is a bulletin board where I’ve been wasting time visiting regularly for over a decade now. This morning I logged in to find that the bulletin board had redesigned with a new white-text-on-black-background design. And because my eyes are not as young as they used to be, I decided to whip together a localContinue reading “On Making TrekBBS Readable”
On Typgraphic Atrocities
A poster for a clothing drive in the elevator vestibule in the office is a typographic atrocity. Just from sight, I’ve identified the following typefaces: Comic Sans Arial Arial Rounded Lucida Grande At that point, my eyes glazed over and my brain was stunned into a stupor.
On Looking Ahead to the Summer Months
Where does time go? Shore Leave is only about ten weeks away! I sent the con an updated bio earlier today. What brought this to mind was that I received some website traffic from the Shore Leave website yesterday. So, said I to myself, “Which bio do they have running?” And I discovered they didn’tContinue reading “On Looking Ahead to the Summer Months”
On a Fallow Period
I haven’t had a lot to say recently. I’ve been busy with work, which has been more than a little hectic. I’ve been busy with writing, including an article that just won’t get itself right. And I haven’t been feeling any sort of creative. That said, I shall endeavor to be a better blogger forContinue reading “On a Fallow Period”
On Random Video Silliness for a Late Sunday
Three recent video discoveries on YouTube… Vader Sessions, a Star Wars fanfilm that takes classic Star Wars scenes and remixes them with James Earl Jones’ dialogue from other films: A Young Sherlock Holmes fanvid. Okay, yes, it uses Evanescence’s “My Immortal,” which is a song that I tired of, oh, five years ago, but it’sContinue reading “On Random Video Silliness for a Late Sunday”
On Friday Morning Randomness
This week, we’ve had pleasant weather. Until today. Today is going to be a scorcher. Temperatures at the triple-digit mark. And then! Maryland was struck by an earthquake! With all this bad in the world, with the Earth itself being greatly wroth, what’s a person to do? What can a person use to distract himselfContinue reading “On Friday Morning Randomness”
On the Archetypal Allyn
Within the last month, comment spam on my blog has gone from fairly minimal to fairly insane. Fortunately, I have traps in place to catch, but I’ve had to implement something I’m not a fan of — setting it so that comments don’t appear until I approve them if the person has never commented before.Continue reading “On the Archetypal Allyn”
On the Sam Adams Holiday Pack
It’s a wintry time of the year, and that means the Holiday Collection from Sam Adams! I look forward to this collection of six beers every year. Wintry, festive holiday brews! Only, this year I’m unhappy. The Holiday Collection comes, as I mentioned, with six different winter beer styles. In years past, the six haveContinue reading “On the Sam Adams Holiday Pack”