2016-03-19 18:53
A couple of weeks ago, for the first time in I have no idea how long, I decided to get on my stationary exercise bike. I won't go into all the reasons I hadn't been on it for so long, but if… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
A friend for Apajala, perhaps:Alexander Not-Culvert II was the middle child and only son of Dorothea Not and Alexander Culvert I. Although his parents had always addressed him as Alexander… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Obsessive readers of this blog may remember that back in 2005, I had a new garage built in my front yard, because the old garage, which was in my backyard, was too difficult to get to. It ha… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Glitch in the Grid is the latest film from Eric Leiser. Like its predecessor Imagination, it combines live action and stop-frame animation to create a what Leiser calls a "personal, magical… Read More
2011-05-30 20:04
A few years ago, I was talking to some guy and somehow we got on the subject of the younger generation. It didn't take me too long to realize his attitude was a lot different from mine. His… Read More
2011-05-20 19:06
I was all set to write about Intelligent Design today, but before sitting down to start typing, I decided to eat a mango. I really like mangoes. As a matter of fact, I like a lot of tropical… Read More
2011-05-14 21:00
I had an interesting dream the other night. I probably have interesting dreams every night, but I don't always remember them when I wake up. Sometimes I think that the more interesting the d… Read More
2011-03-22 03:56
They say curiosity killed the cat, but I don't think cats are actually all that curious.I don't claim to have any particular insight into the cat mind, but if a cat is walking down the sidew… Read More
2011-02-14 09:55
Well, last Sunday was the Super Bowl and on that Sunday and every Sunday before it, I somehow managed not to watch the Super Bowl. It's not that I'm against football or professional sports o… Read More
2010-12-21 22:49
The year is almost over, and I can't think of a better time to post my last blog entry of the year. My last post was about six months ago, and since I can't think of a better topic than the… Read More
2010-06-28 02:54
In my previous post I talked about weight, so in this post I'll talk about waiting.I've been spending a lot of time in doctors' offices over the past few years, which means I've been spendin… Read More
2010-06-17 00:31
I know how much I weigh, so you don't need to tell me I've lost weight.Well, strictly speaking, that isn't true, since I don't actually know what I weigh. But I'll address that a little late… Read More
2010-05-17 05:53
It's been five years since I was diagnosed with cancer, so I thought I'd commemorate the event by posting something about it on this blog. But what I'm posting here today isn't something I w… Read More
2010-04-26 06:18
The recently discovered Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton is 4.4 million years old. And if you believe in science and evolution and all that crazy stuff, it's the oldest known human ancestor. So… Read More
2010-04-20 08:24
Once upon a time, I mentioned that I was thinking about not posting to this blog anymore. It's now almost a year later to the day and I'm still writing, which probably means I'm some sort of… Read More
2009-11-29 22:59
I just flew back from the Washington DC area, and even though a lot of times in the past, I've complained about the flight on this blog, I'm not going to do that this time. It's not necessar… Read More
2009-11-23 06:54
I think I may have outdone myself with last week's poem. It wasn't exactly a work of literary genius, but compared to most of the other poems I've recently featured on this blog, it was pret… Read More
2009-11-14 20:57
I'm breaking with a tradition I established and have adhered to when I first started writing bad poetry for this blog. Today's poem bucks this tradition in several ways. First of all, I wrot… Read More
2009-11-07 17:40
In keeping with my recent decision to express myself in doggerel, this post will include a poem. And this should be of no concern to you, but it wasn't particularly easy for me to crank out… Read More
2009-10-31 16:30
Happy Halloween, everyone. Today's bad poem doesn't have a Halloween theme, and there are two reasons for this. The first is that writing a Halloween poem on Halloween is just a little too u… Read More
2009-10-17 19:02
Today's bad poetry challenge is to write an inoffensive limerick that uses the word "Nantucket." Although "Nantucket" limericks are usually lewd, dirty, suggestive, licentious, salacious, po… Read More
2009-10-10 19:28
The funny thing about postmodernism is that everyone uses the term and nobody really knows what it means. That's not the funny part, though. The funny part is that the fact that nobody knows… Read More
2009-10-03 15:54
As I mentioned last week, I'm not really a creature of habit. That's not completely true, of course, but sometimes when I find myself in a rut, I try to crawl out of it, especially if it's n… Read More
2009-09-28 21:04
I'm not really a creature of habit, but there are certain things I do out of habit just because I don't want to think about them. That's how I ended up using the same brand of shampoo for ye… Read More
2009-09-19 19:48
There's a TV commercial I've seen that asserts that every 60 seconds, somebody somewhere buys a Tempurpedic "sleep system." In case you're wondering, a "sleep system" appears to consist of n… Read More
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