Your Humble Blogger had this great idea for an Oscars game. Around Thanksgiving, when nobody knew anything, people would start bidding in what was more or less an auction for movies and performances. When the nominations came out, two months…
One of the blogs I occasionally look in on is Clive Thompson’s Collision Detection, which didn’t actually have anything too interesting recently, but pointed me to English Cut, the website of Thomas Mahon, a Savile Row tailor. I am a…
Well, and it’s been about two years since Your Humble Blogger started writing down bits of notes about various things. It doesn’t seem remotely possible that I’ve been blogging for two years, and yet it also seems odd to me…
Well, and I’m back. Much rumination occurred, some of which may find its way into this Tohu Bohu over the coming week or two, but for now, Gentle Reader, I am tired. Come back tomorrow, y’all. I did, however, like…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is hitting the proverbial road, and will therefore likely not be posting for a few days. Back on Sunday, I think, refreshed and all. Thank you,-Vardibidian….
Gentle Readers who are into schadenfreude have probably been following the Jeff “Gannon” miniscandal. For those who have not, more power to you, and if for some reason you want to delve into the nonsense, I suppose you can start…
As Gentle Readers may remember, one of your number (specifically Dan, over at Position of Ignorance was looking for assistance with some game-playing ideas. With such assistance, he has come up with an alpha version of Valley of the Drupes,…
Andrew Cline, in an otherwise interesting and relevant note on Our Only President’s recent report on the State of the Union, finds it interesting that presidential speeches consisting in the main of enumerations of policies are called laundry lists, rather…
Since my local NPR station (WHRV) has changed its lineup, I now have the opportunity to listen to With Good Reason, a weekly interview show under the auspices of The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. This is a surprisingly good,…
Irilyth has started an interesting conversation on esuvee, the spokesmammoth for SUV safety. As he has locked me out of commenting on his site, I’ll just add that when I heard about the ad on Morning Edition yesterday, I had…