From the monthly archives: February 2011
Dillweed request: I have a mail program that sends up little alerts when I get a new message; it appears to be trashing some mails I mark as “unread.” If you’ve contributed this last week – and there’s one high-level contribution I can’t find – please email me with the subject line DILLWEED. Apologies; I [...]
NOTE: this was written yesterday, before I realized I forgot to post a Bleat. So it’s a day behind. But there’s a Diner; links at the bottom.
Today’s snow photo, taken at the parking lot by my daughter’s karate school:
That’s the result of plows shoving the snow into mountains, not natural [...]
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On February 24, 2011 · 65 Comments · In Architorture, Black & White World, Domestic Life, Mpls: history, Nerdygeek
NOTE: I can’t believe I forgot to post this. And didn’t notice. Yet I did. So here’s yesterday’s Bleat, today! As if they’re all that timely. Note: I will be on the Dennis Miller show today, around 9:30 Pacific time.
I was surprised tonight to find my daughter at the end of a book [...]
The whole damned day was built around fargin’ snow. Wife gets up, heads out, I get a phone call a minute or two later: I’m outside, stuck. Go outside. Indeed: the car progressed exactly one yard on the street. A neighbor is helping her get out of a drift.
Mind you, the plows hadn’t [...]
Another foot of snow. Or more: could be 15 inches by the time you read this. Eh. Fine. Do it. At this point we’re like the wounded in a field hospital. Just saw it off, doc. I’ll take a swig and bite down on this paperback book. You sawed the other one off last week [...]
A long day, born from fog, laid into the grave with the brief benediction of the setting sun. Lots of satisfying work. At the end: sat on the sofa with daughter, who doesn’t have school Friday, and went through old children’s TV shows on Netflix, laughing at the Care Bears, expressing sudden horror at the [...]
Oh. Lord. Wednesday was wall-to-wall, and I’m not even close to the second wall yet, so you’ll forgive me here. But part of my work tonight involved the site, with a BleatPlus update – small, slightly melancholy – and the first of a four-part series on . . .
The Album art of Big Tiny [...]
The Final Solution
On February 16, 2011 · 46 Comments · In Black & White World, Comic Sins, Domestic Life, Matchbooks, The Forties
My main computer is having issues. The screen fills with tiny lines, and everything is unresponsive. The mouse works; iTunes continues to play. But the screens are locked. With my years of expertise I suspect a video card problem. That’s good, because just this morning I was looking at a stack of money I’d [...]
Busy. Things today:
1. Daughter loved her Valentine’s Day Japanese confection gift, and she had a card for me as well. I bought her a funny card with cute characters saying things – a Whoops and Yoyo card, which can be held up to a webcam for Augmented Reality Action. Almost bought her a card [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! It’s Jack Benny’s birthday.
Saturday I took Gnat to Target, because my wife was out of town, and no, you can’t stay home alone. You’re going to come out and enjoy yourself and see what Dad does on weekends. She enjoys it, though. We went to the toy department to look [...]
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