The Adventures of Roberta X

      A promotional video for the latest effort from Wes Anderson * has Bill Murray reading from " The Theory And Practice Of Editing N...

      "Blogfriends" has been added to the sidebar.  This is to help make clear that I do not endorse the dangerous, foolish and/or...

      It's another cold and rainy day.  I think I'm just going to enjoy the rain, and hope for sunshine over the weekend.

      Autumn often provides spectacular sunsets.

      I keep trying to wall off the fscknuttery and it keeps on oozing through the cracks, vaulting over the top and burrowing up from benea...

      You used to turn that part of the X-divided ice-company card upward if, by some amazing good luck or careful management, the block(s) ...

      That's what it did yesterday.  It rained.  Then it would stop awhile and ponder, all overcast and cold, and having given the matte...

      I would only take medicine intended for fish as a desperate last resort, and you should do the same.  Especially with a class of illne...

      Okay, fine -- the weather's cold, dark and blustery, there's a heap of laundry and a pile of incomplete prospects nagging me, ...

      Tired all day and did very little -- breakfast, one load of laundry, supper.  And now I'm going to bed early.       There was a l...

      Which means getting back to various levels of "fire drill" associated with security.  The North Campus has had a lot of beni...

      There's an interesting article about Pacific shipping snarl-ups at BBC.  Some simplistic memes have been circulating; the reality...