Category: ramblings

Okay, so maybe it doesn’t hold a candle to the Great Northeast Blackout of Ought-Three, but we lost power somewhere around five o’clock last evening during the hurricane force gusts of wind and driving rain, and didn’t get it back until tonight around eight-thirty or so. The weird thing is, we didn’t lose all of…

September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Only a month left to practice your patois!

THE NETHERLANDS, +31-630-233-971. BUSINESS PROPOSAL AND INVESTMENT . Dera Partner, You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not know me personally. I certainly am. Who the hell are you? I am Sodingo Malinga,the first son of Malinga Tawanda,the most popular black farmerin Zimbabwe who was murdered in the land…

I saw the cover of the latest issue of wired, and had to pick it up. Turns out there’s a very interesting article on the emergence of synthetic diamonds— that is, diamonds that are grown in a lab, but are physically and chemically indistinguishable from diamonds that are mined. This is not your father’s cubic…

While perusing a site about the Illegal Art exhibition (think a Mickey Mouse gas mask, an alphabet made from corporate logo letters, and a “Corporate Whore” parody of the Starbucks logo), I discovered one of the contributing artists, Threadgill, who creates some incredible artwork… very clean and clever, and reminds me in a way of…

Just posted a gallery of photos [Offline —Ed. 2015-08-22] from our trip to the Packard museum this weekend, as part of our family trip to Ohio.