How much of The Bard is in you?

The answer might surprise you. It might disgust you, too, but that can’t be helped. If it grosses you out, save your breath. (both via AskMeFi).

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Many have entered The Tank…

…and most have lived.
We lost one neon (within hours of introduction) and flushed a danio last night. Everyone else looks hale and colorful. Neons are wee, highly-strung little fish so I wasn’t too surprised to see one go fins-up. The danio had been a bit of an outcast for awhile. Anyway, enough about that. Our [...]

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Little fishes

The big gift from my parents to the half-dozen Hobnottle children was a  complete aquarium kit - tank, stand, heater, filter, hood and a few odd vials of water treatment chemicals, food samples and the like. On the heels of Epiphany (in fact, on Epiphany) we played a little Tetris with our living room floorplan [...]

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On Writing

No, not the craft. The mechanical act of writing, as with a pen. One of my birthday gifts was a beautiful fountain pen, which came complete with a little jar of ink, some cartridges, blotting paper and a helpful little pamphlet entitled “How to Write with a Fountain Pen”. Twenty-odd years of pounding away at [...]

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Books, Greek

Wrapped up Mansfield Park the other night. I found it easy to tell that it was written later in her career - the whole tone seemed a little darker, the wit sharper. I’ve detoured into detoured into Tears of the Giraffe, which is the second book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by [...]

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This is only a test.

If this had been anything worthwhile, I would have said so. As it is, I’ve just downloaded the latest version of Flock and am playing around with the the photo uploader. The upgrade, alas, seems to have ‘forgotten’ my flickr account, so I had to reinstall. Anyway, here’s a picture of a page:

This is the [...]

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A lo-flow promo for NaNoWriMo

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton
Another November is upon us which means that National Novel Writing Month (”NaNoWriMo” to us Illuminati) is about to unhinge itself and come crashing through the party like a drunken uncle with an off-color [...]

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Something for the ‘weekend project list’…

From the always-cool AfriGadget blog: Mubarak Abdullahi’s home-made helicopter takes Nigeria’s Kano Plains by storm

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Was there ever any doubt?

Captain American Lives! Hero to Return in 2008!

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Radio. Armchair Exegesis. Rantlet.

The foxhole radio project was a mixed success. Having cobbled together all of the necessary junk, I stuck in the earpiece and heard…something. Not a radio broadcast, but something which sounded like it might have been one. I messed around with it for two consecutive evenings and didn’t seem to make much headway. I’ll probably [...]

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