Dictionary typo
I confess to being inordinately proud of having found a typo in MW10: in the entry for Boudicca (a.k.a. Boadicea),...
Nixon, Quakerism, Hiss, and the Enemy
Garth points to an interesting article on Richard Nixon and the Quakers; it's perhaps a bit too glib and simplistic...
Data loss
Damn. Mary Anne lost all her data in a hard drive crash. So I decided it was long past time...
Updates
It's been pointed out that I haven't posted anything in the past couple days. No particular reason; just been busy....
Plurals
Joe pointed recently to a cool Straight Dope article on how to correctly form plurals of various words and various...
Reference
The last few stories I've edited have been without benefit of reference books. (Though of course I've used various online...
Lulls
Submission volume dropped very slightly yesterday ("only" 9 subs, which would normally be high but in this case was the...
Drain and drain! What is drain?
One of the things I hate most is going out specifically to do one particular errand that needs to be...
And then there’s my hair
We went to the Cheesecake Factory in Palo Alto for dinner the other night. Turned out I wasn't cool enough...
YALotRQ
I know, I know, it's Yet Another Lord of the Rings Quiz. Aren't there enough of those? But this one's...
Psycho kitty
Somehow these items seem related: Art under the influence of LSD (something about this sounds fake to me, but it's...
Mars climate FAQ
Ever wondered what the actual color of the Martian sky is, or what weather is like on Mars? Wonder no...