… every day can be No Pants Day. For the rest of you, today is your chance to see what it’s like. Read more →
Category: Storytime
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 →
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 →
Hanging Around The House: More Downstairs
So, last time it was the couple of things in my office. (Remember that the thumbnails in these posts are links to gigantic versions.) Now, we’ll move out of my my office into the hall outside: My office is off this hall on the right, the guest bedroom is off to the left. In the shot you can see my… Read more →
8 months already…
Wow. I can’t believe Sarah is already 8 months old. She’s definitely mobile now, and is on the verge of becoming an efficient crawler. She’s talking (in a special language that seems to be mostly made up of “ba”, “ga”, and “da”–which is fine with me because it includes “dada” a lot) and she totally sings. She is also the… Read more →
Hanging Around The House: My Office
A while back pal Gwenda tried to convince people to do photo-tours of their homes. I tried to shoot some pictures for something like that, but I found that I couldn’t take pictures that showed things the way I want to show them. However, it did inspire me to do a series showing the various pieces of artwork, etc., that… Read more →
Eostre Traditions
We have a new Easter (or Eostre if you prefer) tradition in the McLaren household. Since we’re mostly areligious (i.e. I’m a die hard athiest and Trish is agnostic) the traditions have nothing to do with chocolate jesus or egg-laying bunnies or anything. Our new tradition for this weekend is Sunday Brunch with the traditional Easter French Toast accompanied by… Read more →
“I never bin lost..”
So, while I’m talking about my Minneapolis friends, let’s shine the spotlight on Adam Stemple. (Those of you not reading this in an RSS aggregator will notice I’ve added a link to Adam’s new web site to the link list on the right–head over there and give him some love.) In addition to his myriad musical talents, Adam has started… Read more →
St. Patrick’s Day
So, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and I’m not in Minneapolis. This is the second year in a row that’s happened, after more than a decade of seeing the Boiled In Lead show at First Avenue every year. And, for reasons which I don’t know if I’m allowed to mention, I suspect that things may be very different next year. Of… Read more →
I don’t often do this…
..but I thought the ordering here was pretty funny. Apparently the scores were so close that the system had to ask me a tie-breaker. If I were just a little more self-confident I would have answered the tie breaker the other way, and apparently then instantly transformed into Anton Levey. (I wonder what test would return if taken by, oh,… Read more →
Everyone has their fetishes…
The sad truth is that this is like porn for me. You should have seen me handle the traycase on Phases Of The Moon when it arrived… I may have been drooling. Read more →
Motion Picture Mail
For some reason, I’ve been getting rather a lot of video material in the mail this past couple of weeks. Mostly non-fiction stuff, with one notable exception. And since I’ve been backed up with work and sickness, I haven’t really had a chance to catch up on it. But I thought I could share some of the stuff with you… Read more →
I amuse me
I have a pretty excellent job. In one meeting today I threatened to feed a coworker to the pigs, and he correctly identified it as a Deadwood reference. There would have been much hilarity and cursing, Mr. Wu stylee, except for the presence of one humourless fellow. In another meeting I responded to a particularly dumb statement with “Have you… Read more →
You know, in my mind I’m like 24…
How did I get to be 32? Time definitely seems to be accelerating. I feel like we just moved to Nova Scotia, and in a couple of months it will have been 4 years. Which means I’ve been married for almost 4 years, since that was right before we moved, and I’ve been working for my current company for over… Read more →
More hate for Nova Scotia Power
If you are scheduling a power outage for an entire area for “maintenance”, that will last for two hours, you really need to notify the people in that area. For the purposes of this statement, notify does not mean “put a message on the outage line to let people know when they call in to report the outage”. The fact… Read more →
