The Adventures of Roberta X

Turk and I saw The Road today. We'd both read the book, which is utterly harrowing; almost unremittingly bleak. Cormac McCarthy manage...

I am awake. I'm not hung over (from one beer? Puh-leeze!). But oh, did I oversleep.

Over a dozen of us at Brugge! UPDATE: A wonderful time! Alas, I had a (rather large) glass of their ale "The Black" which is rem...

See here for BlogMeet info. 1500 this very afternoon! See you there, riiight? Off to shoot at innocent little paper targets now, aft...

Others have linked to it but I'm gonna anyway: XKCD graphically and simply explains gravity wells . Hoping this is available as a p...

Preliminary Report: We attempted to view their primitive entertainment, a device known as the Lomax or Imax, but were rebuffed: all "t...

Dinner at Morton's was fantabulous, as ever! Turk Turon was once again my charming companion for the evening and we had a grand time. ...

Be good, or I'll upload more.

...And here I am with nothing suitable to wear! A hasty try through what used to be L. S. Ayres (later May Co. and now Macy's, shorn o...

Well, a little time, but only 'cos I am waiting my turn at the shower. I'm covered up with year-enders at work, so much so I ha...

In no little haste this morning (I worked 8 hours on/8 off/8 on Sunday and Monday, a trick that takes an increasingly greater toll, especial...

...The day the Nigerian groin-bomber flamed out, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano fatuously proclaimed, "The system worked....