I don’t like calamari. It’s not a big deal, but it’s emphatic. I really don’t like the stuff. It’s rubbery and unpleasant in the mouth and it tastes like dead fish. So I don’t like calamari. I’m surrounded by people who loooove calamari so I can’t figure out why I don’t. And every five or …
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Toddler Head
Am I the only one here who’s sick unto death of managing myself like some balky damn toddler? When you have a toddler in the house every single moment of your life is consumed with managing the toddler. They are ingenious, … and they can walk. In fact, when on one of their laser guided …
Thoughts on Arrivals
We’re finally in Mexico after an overnight delay caused by not having a flight attendant. So I have to ask — is this really visiting a foreign country? When the first thing that you do after the inevitable post-flight-hangover nap is walk down the block to the grocery store to buy provisions? When you can …
#FridayReads 25.oct.2013
Tony Hillerman writes a predictably solid mystery. With a world that lives and breathes and is very different from the green, moist Pacific Northwest that I consider home. A month or so ago I started at the beginning of the Navajo series with The Blessing Way and am now up to Coyote Waits a little …
Books I Read A While Ago
Three from much earlier this year. In non-fiction, Charles Wheelan’s Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data. Professor does stats for dummies. Lots of baseball. I kind of like baseball and there are some amazing things being done with numbers in baseball. But mostly it’s the old standbys, drug research and the large scale health surveys …