We had an enormous turkey carcass left over at the end of Thanksgiving dinner, so I said “Hey, turkey soup.” The basic idea is simplicity itself– cut the carcass into managable pieces, stick it in a big put, cover it with water, and simmer for a good long while. After an hour or two, you’ve […]
Month: November 2006
Thinking Clearly About Space
The articles in question are more than a year old, but I didn’t see them when they were first posted, so James Nicoll’s link to Monte Davis’s “Thinking Clearly About Space” series (part one, part two, part three, part four) was very welcome. Obviously, you should go read the whole thing (the parts aren’t that […]
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Interesting Reading List
Via Miriam Burstein, everybody’s favorite Middle English poet posts about what he’s reading these days: Battlestar Ecclesiastica by Johannes Wycliffe In this boke of science ficcion, a man ycleped Wycliffe is the bishop of the gret chirche of Seynt Paules, the which is lyk vnto a mighty shippe and kan moue thurgh the voyde of […]
A Chateau Steelypips Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving advice from Making Light got here too late to do us any good, but we had a fine first Thanksgiving anyway. My parents, sister, grandmother, and one of my great-aunts came up from New York, and Kate’s parents came up from Boston, so we packed nine people into our smallish house, along with […]
Wake Me When September Ends
Yesterday’s quickie photo-blog post came during the short break between running around preparing for house guests, and the arrival of said house guests (about fifteen minutes after I posted, while I was in the shower). Other than that, I was way too busy to even read blogs, let alone post. So, crawling out from under […]
Calm Before the Storm
The table is set: The turkey is in the oven, the house is clean, and two car loads of relatives are on their way. Our first time hosting Thanksgiving dinner is on track. Wish us luck, and take a moment to be thankful for the Pauli Exclusion Principle, Democratic control of Congress, and friends and […]
Pimp Me DVD’s
Kate and I have a Netflix subscription that we’ve mostly been using to obtain various anime series. We’re running a little low on Japanese cartoons, though, having recently finished Martian Successor Nadesico, and with only four discs left of Trigun (two of which will probably be polished off while lolling around Friday after hosting Thanksgiving […]
The Other Side of Fall
The flip side of the pretty colors I posted about yesterday is that all those nicely colored leaves fall down. Which isn’t a big deal with the little ornamental maple in the front yard, but when the fifty-foot oak tree in the back drops its leaves, it kind of makes a mess. We deal with […]
Wikipedia Brown
I’ve been way behind in my blogreading the last few weeks, owing to a huge amount of, you know, actual work for my day job, so this may have been all over the Internets already. On the off chance that it hasn’t, via Ethan Zuckerman, a link to Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the […]
Inside the Writer’s Studio
I scan the titles reviewed by the Onion AV Club through their RSS feed every week, and only click over there for things that look particularly interesting. I don’t regularly check their feature stories, which is why I’m a week late in noticing that they have an interview with Donald Westlake, one of my very […]