I’d rather be in bed right now than sitting here and writing this, but I haven’t responded to a lot of e-mail lately, so I’m sure some people are worried about me. My weekend was only one-third as exciting as Craig Ferguson‘s, who officially became an American citizen on Friday, flew a plane solo for the first time on Saturday, and enjoyed the Super Bowl on Sunday—I did the Sunday part, woohoo!—but today alone was exciting enough for me. I…
I know now that LynTaylor has a blog because she tagged me, and while I’m hard put to find six random facts about me that aren’t already on a previous list, I’m even harder put to find six other bloggers to tag. Yet, here I go anyway: 1. I often use words and phrases to which I don’t know the meaning—like “hard put” for instance. I don’t even know if I use that correctly. What the hell does it mean?…
I truly enjoy playing Scrabulous on Facebook. I pride myself on finally having broken a 400 score and so far having won every game. So how should I react when I see this news? LONDON (Reuters) – The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version “Scrabulous,” which they say infringes their copyright… Oh, my God. I think I’m going to cry. My real world Scrabble game doesn’t score my plays for me, and…
H.E. told me about this a couple of days ago. PBS will be airing The Complete Jane Austen stories, one every Sunday through April, starting January 13. Not only am I big fan of Jane Austen, I’m a big fan of Masterpiece Theater. I love the period pieces they play, like Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), Bleak House (Charles Dickens), and Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). Some movies they produce themselves; others are produced by A&E or BBC. When we…
There was an earthquake off the coast of Oregon today, so naturally there was a tsunami warning all along the coast, just in case. Shortly after I moved, I spent some time on the Huntington Beach city web site to find out about all the recycling stuff, and somehow I stumbled onto the tsunami preparedness page, where I found a larger version of this map: Let me tell you, it was eye-opening. I used to live in the white area…