I hate Halloween. Orange and black are ugly colors. Costumes are expensive, uncomfortable to wear, and they (mostly) look stupid. All that sugar makes my kids unrecognizable. And what good is a holiday if it doesn’t involve a great big festive meal with extended family? Halloween has one redeeming thing. I hope you already know how [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
It’s been a while
since I posted a cute kid photo. Here’s little Imelda Marcos. And in case you’re wondering what’s on his mind these days you can read about it here.
Sad monster
I read the first story in the A.S. Byatt book. “The Thing in the Forest,” it’s called. The Thing turns out to be (this isn’t a spoiler) essentially the Questing Beast out of Arthurian legend. Do you remember the Questing Beast? In The Once and Future King there’s an episode where King Pellinore (I think that’s [...]
Something literary
I’ve been thinking about A.S. Byatt recently. First, because Laura read Possession recently, and second, because at dinner the other day we had a great conversation with the kids about how best to phrase your wishes when you free a genie. I didn’t like Possession when I read it several years ago. I found it so… [...]
Have you seen this?
I just spent twenty fascinated, horrified minutes perusing this site.
Giggle giggle
I found this at Purple Puzzle Place. Google your own name (real or username) plus the word needs, all in quotation marks. Here are some of the hits I got when I Googled “Julie needs”. Julie needs to work on her parenting. Julie needs a team of committed people to pray for her. Julie needs some real hands-on [...]
What obsolete skill are you?
I found this at Sylvia’s. You are “programming in QBASIC.” This programming language (of which the acronym stands for “Quick Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code”), which is so primitive that it cannot easily be used for any purpose involving the Internet nor even sound, was current more than a decade ago. You are independent, in a good [...]