A month ago I wrote a post, It’s Still January, which is a re-hash of all my other posts bitching about January. I regret nothing in the anti-January posts, but I need to add February. I have good scientific reasons. Also other reasons. When the post was published, January 2026 was lying low. But since […]
This first ran in February 18, 2019, back when we thought colds came and went, big deal. Since then, covid has brought us to Jesus and back again, and people are having colds again, not exactly a big deal, not exactly not. And lest this post about our bodies’ resilience be taken as support for […]
Update, 1/27/2026: When I wrote this post, January was lying low. It has now risen from the deep with monstrous noises. So, a cold snap, fair enough. And then my boiler (which I think of as a furnace, no clue how wrong I might be) started not heating very well then not at all so […]
Lest you think that only old books can be bothered to note the fonts in which they’re printed, the latest (Sep., 2025) Thursday Murder Club’s opening pages say it’s set in Adobe Jenson Pro, which has been designed by Cassandra Garruzzo Mueller, bless her. And in the spirit of font-noting if not the letter, J.L. […]
I had an ephiphany about why cats are the way they are. But before I can explain the epiphany, I should explain the way that cats are. Granted, I don’t have a cat, but I was raised with them. I lived on a small farm and farms have cats to keep the mice and rats […]
I remain mildly obsessed (a nice state to live in) with the mission patches published by the National Reconnaissance Office, which if you’re obsessed enough you can figure out what satellites the NRO just launched. Some of those satellites are, you know, secret. Like this one: it’s for recently-launched constellations (a ton of linked satellites) […]
I haven’t heard the foxes for a good year now. The woods are still there but the owners sold it to a buyer who promised to cut down only the middle of it, you know how buyers promise things. No trees have been cut down yet but a lot of people have been tramping through […]
I thought the latest sound clip from two merging black holes was nice but I’d heard this before and I wasn’t stunned. You can hear them spiraling in toward each other and merging — I can’t hear the ringdown which I assume is the merged entity shuddering. The first time I heard one of these […]
