Word (via Dangerous Minds) that the soundtrack of those “you wouldn’t steal a car” anti-download ads is, in fact, pirated.  Somebody owes Dutch composer Melchior Rietveldt a great big bucketful of Euros. Adding injury to insult to injury, the national royalty collection agency Buma/Stemra demanded a hefty bribe before investigating the matter.   Which demand […]

We’re experiencing the first big winter storm of the season, with what are quite literally hurricane-force winds.  My neighbor appears to have lost part of his roof.  The 0nly damage we’ve sustained so far is that the cover to the hot tub tore off, flinging aside the heavy water-filled weights that we’d placed on it […]

  So today we had the sixth and seventh Comcast technicians come to restore my broadband Internet.  The sixth dug a trench in my side yard.  The seventh climbed a pole to install some kind of booster. They really are trying, folks. In neither case did the fix last more than a few minutes. My […]

(Internet service still spotty.  Will try to keep this short.) I was at a friend’s birthday party this afternoon, and noticed there was clotted cream.  (The real stuff, too, came from England in a bottle.  Not the American kind which is just whipped cream with some kind of emulsifier in it.) “Look!” I told Kathy.  […]