Steve here. I had dreaded being tagged with this meme and was ducking Dr Hypercube when Patrick came in on my blind side. But it turns out that when I brainstormed it with Libby I had more than “2.6”. So: 1) I am the oldest of nine children. The last two (twins) were born after …
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Dillard / Macdonald
Dillard / Macdonald One of the books in my “pile” is For The Time Being by Annie Dillard, a writer I’ve come to think of as a soul mate to Helen Macdonald, but without any better justification than this imprecise observation: Most of us connect words and ideas with the standard tools. We use stout, …
Eight (count ’em, 8)
Eight (count ’em, 8) Some quirk of Blogger prevents me from putting a title to this post in the proper place. But you get the picture. Patrick has graciously infected us with another blog-cootie–a blootie, if you will—called Eight Random Things. The rules of this meme: Explain the rules; name eight random things about yourself; …
The Mapinguary
The NY Times (among others, I saw it in the Denver Post) had this story of a strange beast of the Amazonian jungles that the natives there call the mapinguary – which means “the roaring animal” or “the fetid beast.” Many researchers believe that this is a legendary animal, but natives insist that they continue …
Happy Birthday, Mr. Heinlein
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert A. Heinlein, the great American science fiction writer who died in 1988. His influence has been so great in so many areas that there are tributes to him all over the web this week. Here’s a good one and another short one from John Derbyshire. …
Quote of the Day
Steve’s internet access problems are still preventing him from posting. He e-mailed to ask if I could put this up for him. Steve is a fan of the books, print journalism, and on-line work of John Derbyshire. Derb is also a fan of Steve’s. I read his great review of Eagle Dreams long before I …
2Blowhards on Hobbies
We are pleased, as Her Majesty says, to be mentioned again at 2Blowhards! Steve’s post on bully whippets made the latest round of blogrolling by team member “Michael.” This regular feature (called Elsewhere) is something I watch for at 2BH, sure to provide a captivating sample of the Web in lighting-round format. Tagged to the …
Future Trends and More Merle
This blog may bend the boundaries of our Querencia, but I’ll try to wrangle it back around. According to AP, “The Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that children had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages…” The survey charted other trends, …
Cats Domesticated Humans
Actually, this interesting NY Times story on a cat DNA study says that it appears cats domesticated themselves somewhere in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. But anyone who has ever been owned by a cat knows the truth.
From Steve
I’m still having SERIOUS server problems. I just can’t load big sites like Daren’s, Carel’s, Pluvi’s (well, I can if I am willing to refresh for a half hour or more and if it doesn’t disconnect– which it does literally hundreds of times a day, some times three or four times a MINUTE!) I also …