shiny things in messy little piles
Today in procrastination follies. I should be adding ID headers to the video from last weekend’s Mock Trials. But A) I am too dizzy to stand up and work and B) I need to call my doc about that particular side effect. But C) I don’t have my new doc’s number in my phone and …
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I’ve missed a lot of reading time this week. We saw some awesome music.… Knopfler and Dylan on Saturday, Andras Schiff played all of Book 2 of the Well-Tempered Clavier on Monday and last night Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden and a world premiere — Dai Fujikura’s Mina, Concerto for 5 Soloists and Orchestra. That last piece …
Things I’m in the middle of: Forensics for Dummies, Douglas P. Lyle — What it says on the tin. Simplistic but it does the trick as all I’m looking for a smattering of background and some vocabulary lessons. The interesting stuff will come later. 29th Years Best Science Fiction, Dozios — Dipping in and out. This …
Every now and again I rediscover some long forgotten corner of my vasty web empire and have to clean out an overgrown comments moderation queue. For a while there was a rash of spam comments made up of seemingly random bits of strung together prose. They stopped appearing a couple years ago. But I recently …
Tomas looked down from the balcony. This house, the house he’d grown up in, was old, faded. The cool blues and sweet melons of his childhood forgotten and replaced with dry grays and dingy mustards. It was as if his mother had taken all of the color with her when she left. Papa had told …