Death benefit
Got my annual info from the Social Security Administration today, telling me how much money I've earned every year since...
Gay Escapade
If you decide that you want to take a last-minute vacation, you could do worse than to take a look...
Long weekend
Not a three-day weekend, just a long one. Barely got online at all on Saturdaywoke up late, ran off to...
Hugo nominations
Okay, the Hugo ballot has been released (and there'll be an online nomination form soon), so now it's really time...
Geek hierarchy
Those Brunching Shuttlecocks people are at it again, this time with an amusing and quite true geek hierarchy chart, showing...
Home, sick
Woke up dizzy. Figured it was probably just dehydrationhappens sometimesso got up, had some water, started getting ready for work....
Throwing the zloty
According to CNN (which got it from Die Welt), the 1-euro coin (like the 2-zloty coin before it) is more...
Tolkien
I keep staying up much too late doing things that really could've waited 'til morning. So I'm about to go...
Oh, yeah
and I forgot to say: happy new year! We had a party. It was fun. I got to sleep around...
Apocalypse delayed
I was going to suggest that the fact that Lucius Shepard liked Fellowship of the Ring (as shown in his...
Phatter than Falstaff
Back in college, I was a writer for a radio sketch comedy show, "Off the Cuff." One of the pieces...
Reviews
(If you haven't read my review of The Fellowship of the Ring yet, go do that before reading this entry.)...