Castle March

December 1, 2007

Another photo from our 2008 calendar, this of Chambord, a royal chateau in the Loire Valley. We encountered Chambord in the autumn of 2004, as we drove along the Loire Valley from Paris to Nantes, where I was a guest at Utopiales, their annual convention. Chambord was built by Francois I, a contemporary of Henry […]

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Samurai Attack!

November 30, 2007

From the Questions We Never Thought to Ask Department:If the world record holder for race walking is attacked by renegade samurai, would he walk or run?

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And Now, From the Acme Network . . .

November 30, 2007

(courtesy of Kathy) SOCORRO – “Lights, cameras, and action!” The casting call may soon be given for the New Mexico Tech campus to become a real-life movie set for a planned cable television series about the day-to-day operations of a research university. Van Romero, New Mexico Tech vice president for research and economic development, briefed […]

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Sex, Swoony and Otherwise

November 28, 2007

Now there’s a title that drew you in, I bet. I want to talk about sex because I’ve just finished reading a book— a pretty good one— that had a number of fairly explicit sex scenes, all much less worth reading than the rest of the book. All the sex scenes “threw me out,” as […]

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Calendar, 2008

November 27, 2007

Once again, and for the second time in my life, I have become self-published. I’ve put together another travel calendar for 2008, with pictures taken during my travels with Kathy. I make no money off of this. It’s available on a creative commons license. You can order the calendar here, or you can download a […]

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Cold Weather Cuisine

November 27, 2007

I’m getting sick of Thanksgiving leftovers, which are far from exhausted. I had errands today, and it was a brisk cold winter morning, and that put me in mind of a local treat.So I went to a nearby restaurant and ordered a big heapin’ bowl of menudo. Which, for those uninitiated among you, is cow’s […]

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Reader Response

November 26, 2007

I’d like to give a shout-out to the Weather Gods, because apparently they read my blog. Back in August, when I complained that none of the monsoon rains that were pelting the rest of the state were hitting my neighborhood, the Weather Gods responded, and hammered the district with a series of storms that washed […]

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Uh-oh

November 26, 2007

According to an article in tomorrow’s New Scientist, we may have doomed the universe simply by observing dark energy“At the quantum level, whenever we observe or measure something, we reset its clock and stop it decaying – something known as the quantum Zeno effect. Our measurement of the light from supernovae in 1998, which provided […]

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The Turkey Has Landed . . . Houston, Are You Drooling?

November 23, 2007

Skin crispy all over . . . Note that the drumstick is beginning to fall off even before I have laid so much as a fork to the epidermis. Kathy deserves credit for the meal, really. All I did was make the Highly Dangerous Stuffing the night before. (Sausage, bacon, butter, hard-boiled eggs, onion, garlic, […]

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Weapon of Choice

November 23, 2007

Photo by Patricia. My rosy complexion is not an effect of overcelebration, but the fact that after nearly seven hours of roasting, that kitchen was damned hot!

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