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Vintage Reprint: Socks at McDonald's

This is a blog entry I wrote at Yahoo! 360° on September 8, 2005. Now that Yahoo! 360° has shut down the blog portion of their service I wanted to move this entry over. I was actually talking with some work colleagues…
Make It So

I just read a great article about Patrick Stewart and his career as a thespian, Hollywood actor, and now again, a thespian. It reminded me of a couple of things. One, I've been saying for several years now that as long…
Ben and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance

Sunday was a very cold day. It hadn't snowed all day but still the snow was around as it was too cold for the snow to melt. The children were riding their motorized jeeps, Razor scooters and bicycles, periodically vent…
Certainly Uncontaminated by Cheese

Happy birthday to my younger brother, without whom I wouldn't be as nearly enamored with the Python (Monty) sketch "Cheese Shop," whose recitation of (with his lovely wife) at our family reunion a couple of years ago wil…
Exploding Heads

On Wed, 21 Nov, 2007, hotpink.ninja wrote on Snake Squeezins: Just joined today!...I first played wasteland on the Commie 64 , as very young girl...I was recently given a copy and just got the paragraphs yesterday, I…
Seven of Nine

There I was, playing Deluxe Edition Scrabble® BRAND Crossword Game with my wife, the college English major and high school Latin scholar. We were using a 9-tile rules variation, where we each get 9 instead of 7 tiles at…
Dryland Coincidence

I finally watched Waterworld over the weekend. I had seen the first part of the movie on television a few years back but never finished it. Sunday afternoon we returned from Mass at St. Benedict's, presided by the Arch…
The Gap of 89

It is not quite the Gap of Rohan, that precious tract of land, home to Helm's Deep, scene of many bloody virtual battles during our frequent playing of Lord of the Rings Risk. So, what is the gap of 89? Yesterday I was…
Misrepresenting Restating Dominus Iesus

... In ... Last Wednesday I read an article on Yahoo! news that did not sit well with me. I thought, "surely I misread it! Surely that was not what His Holiness had said." On Saturday during rehearsal for the summer…
Fighting Windmills

Hard drive crashed again. I'm very grumpy. Nothing, according to my computer hardware friend, whom I shall refer to as HDS (Hard Drive Swapper, not as cool sounding as HRG, but a man can try to invent arconymic appellati…