Let’s ease back into this blogging thing with a little of the old linkblogging. You will recall my nerd-like nigh worship of Alan Moore. Well, the big story in comic book world yesterday was that Moore has finally had enough of one of his publishers, and is pulling all future projects from them–primarily over some problems with the movie adapation… Read more →
Author: Mr. McLaren
Gone Missing
So I took last week off work (and off blogging) to deal with getting Sarah into day care. It’s a slow process, where she spent one hour the first day, two hours the second day, etc, to get acclimated (acclimatized?). The rest of the day was Daddy-Daughter time. This should have been terribly fun, and left me with lots of… Read more →
Biblioholism
I know it’s supposed to be a joke, but I can actually say yes to having done all of these: Awakened, the morning after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how many books you bought or how much you spent? Been reprimanded or fired for reading on the job? Become suddenly deeply interested in an obscure topic and immediately bought… Read more →
Redheads Curse Robot Lennon!
So I have my RSS reader (Omea, if you care) set up to pull down really rather a lot of feeds–somewhere around 350 I’d guess. (I am Mr. Infoload Efficiency, yes I am.) Lots are folks’ personal blogs, or feeds from news sites, or political blogs, etc. One big category is the “tech stuff”, some of which I follow in… Read more →
Like Tarzan, but with dogs
There’s a lot of different emotional strains going in this Times story… IN A tale that could have been lifted from the pages of a children’s story book, a five-year-old dog foraging for food has been credited with saving the life of a baby who had been left alone in a Nairobi forest for two days. There’s definitely anger, at… Read more →
I am so tired I can see through time
So, my wife’s maternity leave is over, and she has gone back to work. This means that when she leaves for work I have to be awake, to hang out with Sarah until it’s time to take her to baby jail for the day. This means that I have to get up approximately two hours earlier than I have been… Read more →
When you work from home…
… every day can be No Pants Day. For the rest of you, today is your chance to see what it’s like. Read more →
Maybe I should buy Amazon stock?
If Bezos really has discovered Tardis Courier, he’s probably going to make another pile of money. On the other hand, this might be an instance of Wilson‘s Law: “Any sufficently advanced programming error is indistinguishible from magic.” (On yet another–since we’re in the magical realm anyway–hand: new Thraxas, yay! Now when I will I see Millar‘s latest book under his… Read more →
Attention all humans
It’s not that hard to get it right: Read more →
Amateurs.
Well sure, but did they ever make a mixing and delivery system for Alcool- (American can read that as ‘Everclear-‘) based mixed drinks from the nose cone of an aircraft? I mean there’s inspired use of plumbing, and then there’s sheer awe-inspiring cheek, you know? Read more →
Honey, can you start the towels, I just did my darks?
“I thought it would be good to finish with macho man from the ice age who doesn’t do anything around the house except drink beers” Trish and I both do our own laundry–I would actually gladly do both, but her laundry is very complicated. Anything I do at home (as opposed to dress shirts & other things that need ironing,… Read more →
It might be time to reread an Allen Steele novel
I was reading an article at Space.com about the not-often-considered realities that are implied in plans to move into space, and it just makes me want to go find Orbital Decay and read it again. Here’s a bit of the article: You see, when we talk about going into space, we usually think about astronauts—pilots, mission specialists, scientists, and the… Read more →
Tragedy and Comedy in real life.
This photo, from the Flickr stream of Edith Frost caught my eye when Warren Ellis posted it. The idea that this person is not just surrendering to the (perceived) persecution, but is trying to reach out to the populace and encourage some kind of activism makes it terribly sad–that kind of basic faith in humanity under these circumstances is so… Read more →
Middle of the night blues.
Wow. I need a road trip. A lot. Read more →
Student Cuisine
When I lived with MikeDitty, he introduced me to the wonders of “student gourmet” by combining PC White Cheddar Mac & Cheese with PC Jerk Sauce. It was an inspired bit of combination, resulting in something dramatically different from the student standby of regular old Kraft Dinner, but at only a marginal cost increase–and a bottle of jerk sauce could… Read more →
