Like you, I measure out the days in Friday chats now. If I can just make it to Friday chat without emptying another jar of ginger marmalade, I say to my self, I will be OK.  •  The first group project is going well. I think this one is a high level starter discussion. Next I am going to post one …

Hard to believe I am only now seeing the last bit of Lord of the Rings care of the state arm of the pro-orc-killing forces amongst us. Last night in the first period of LOTR part III, there was some orc slaughtery but too much gooey doe eyed lovey-dovey. Not much chance of figuring out who is …

Slowest. News. Day. Ever.  •  On the upside, I gave the gift of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and immediately remembered all the David Bowie guitar that I learned in high school. "Five Years" flew off my fingers like it was 1979 once again.  •  We have decided to focus on knucklehead rock as …

What is wrong with inordinately large bells?  •  The trouble with Christmas on a Monday is that there is two extra days of lead up. Traditionally, the 22nd is nothing but day for pagans to think about what might have been for the winter solstice. But tonight on the local PBS we have bell ringer …

That is what I wish for you all. The gift of fabulousness. This season brings out the fabulousness in all of us and lets us witness the fabulousness in each other - in friends, family as well as strangers. Be fabulous to each other and to yourself. That is the true meaning of the season.  •  One …

So as we are implicitly move to the creation of the national myth of the state of Ontarianada within the Postal Union of Canada, it is important to get onto the iconographic bandwagon and here is one of my favorites. A grand old flag located on a great public service, the Highway 33 ferry from …

Is this the ides of Yule? Hard to tell with mid-December temperatures in the 10C/50F range. 55F in Watertown, NY today. It is slowing down around town - the university emptying out, folks daydreaming of Christmas cake soon to come, people writing Christmas cards instead of clamouring in the …

Something reminded me of the shanty today - sometimes the chanty - fishermen's songs that sound like those Gaelic cloth beating work songs of Cape Breton: pounding rhythms, repetitious lines, huge numbers of verses and variations. But what of the office worker? The only folk song I know of …

Seeing this is cut and paste day from the MSM [Ed.: the dastards! Give me more.], this digital world meets the Darwin awards is a decent morality play for the day:  •  “...a university professor needed help after he tried to fix a squeaky desktop computer by squirting it with WD-40 oil. The squeak …