You have to admire these guys–they’ll stick anything in a blender, just to see what happens. Yeah, when I was seven or eight, I’d have loved to do that. Okay, I had slightly more sense than that. But still, it’s a cool concept. They’ve turned their attentions to the burning question of the day. TheContinue reading “On Fun With Industrial Blenders”
Monthly Archives: July 2007
On Rodimus Prime
It’s been brought to my attention that the greatest Autobot of them all, Rodimus Prime, is not in Michael Bay’s Transformers movie. Due to this unfortunate oversight, I am boycotting Transformers. No Rodimus Prime, no Allyn’s butt in seat.
On the Shore Leave Schedule
The Shore Leave convention starts on Friday at the Hunt Valley Marriott, and for those stalking me… err, I mean those curious about what I’ll be doing this weekend, here’s my schedule of panels and events: Day Panel Room Time Friday Meet-the-Pros Hallway 10 – Midnight Saturday Morality in Doctor Who Derby 12 – 1Continue reading “On the Shore Leave Schedule”
On Name Numerology
Courtesy of Geoff, an exercise in name numerology… There are 11 letters in your name. Those 11 letters total to 49 There are 3 vowels and 8 consonants in your name. I’m going to put the rest behind a cut, but not before I quibble with the calculation above. There are four vowels in myContinue reading “On Name Numerology”
On Impeachment
The media has begun polling on the question of whether or not President Bush should be impeached. I was on that bandwagon early. I got my first “Impeach Bush” tee-shirts back in 2003. Been on that bandwagon a long time. Here’s something interesting. More Americans are in favor of Bush impeachment hearings today than theyContinue reading “On Impeachment”
On the Need for Hobbies
Being the hot, miserable day that it is, I worked on a Word macro coding project for work I’d started (and finished–or at least got something that runs) last week, to clean up the code, strip out some redundancies, and replace a brute-force search-and-replace with a much cleaner looped search-and-replace. And then, I turned myContinue reading “On the Need for Hobbies”
On Yesterday’s Autographing
Yesterday I was in Exton, Pennsylvania autographing Grand Designs and Constellations. It was the first autographing I’d done outside of Shore Leave, so I was quite excited. I wasn’t expecting any sort of major turnout. Yes, I’d announced it here and on message boards, but that’s not going to translate into people. At worst, I’dContinue reading “On Yesterday’s Autographing”
On Today’s Birthdays
Today we celebrate three important birthdays. Robert Heinlein was born one hundred years ago today. I’m not a fan–I find Heinlein’s work to be racist and misogynistic, nor has it aged particularly well–but his influence over science fiction cannot be denied. I think, in his honor, I’ll read Larry Niven’s short story, “The Return ofContinue reading “On Today’s Birthdays”
On a Start to the Day
The morning commute was… less than fun. Some mornings it’s a breeze. Other mornings, Liberty Road is a sodding nightmare. Earlier this week–was it Tuesday?–it took half an hour to go the six miles to the Beltway. For some reason traffic didn’t move once I’d reached the Rolling Road intersection, and then, suddenly, it did.Continue reading “On a Start to the Day”
On Shipping Disappointments
An online retailers I’ve done business with for many years is shipping a package I’m utterly impatient for… Via the Dumbass Handlers League. Yes, DHL, is handling this very important package. On the one hand, I have the shakes from my impatience. It’s like crack, and I need my fix. On the other hand, IContinue reading “On Shipping Disappointments”