Random Observation
I was on the bus this afternoon and passed through Party House Row on South State. One of the roofs had about fifteen subscriber […]
I was on the bus this afternoon and passed through Party House Row on South State. One of the roofs had about fifteen subscriber […]
Sometimes I wonder where the hell I’m living. It seems that the Michigan House has just passed a bill that, if it gets approved […]
Done, done, done ….. up till hours I’m ashamed to divulge finishing it, but it’s done ….. don’t know how coherent the product is, […]
The beagle is once again in his customary final exam support role, next to me down here in the basement as the wind from […]
Well, ugh. That’s my reaction after completing the first three assignments for the first of four undergrad courses the University of Michigan is forcing […]
Between converting this site to Textpattern—since LunarPages is no longer interested in helping resurrect MovableType (if they ever were)—and starting my 12 hours of […]
Blender and VH1 have teamed up to list the 50 worst songs of all time. I would agree that Starship’s “We Built This City” […]
How long will it be before all the ash trees in southeastern Michigan die out? I heard a figure on the radio just now […]
A howling wind tore through the boulevards of the southeastern Michigan town, stirring up dust motes, leaves, beetles, and memories of regret, pathos, and […]
This year’s Lyttle Lytton Prizes (a spinoff from the better-known Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, sponsored every year by San Jose State University) have been announced. […]
Tornado weather, says Hillary ….. great! The one that passed through the day we arrived last August was enough for me, but I suppose […]
Let’s see. Prediction from the National Weather Service: possibility of thunderstorms 20%; temperature will rise to 76 by noon then fall to 67; and […]
This weather is almost astonishing in its California-ness. Blue skies, sunlight for most of the daylight hours, temperatures in the high 70s, and lots […]
The dog was back to his old tricks today, though he seemed to be somewhat more drowsy than usual (which is to say, he […]
The nightmare that is the last few weeks of school is almost over ….. yet it seems right now as though it will never […]
We no longer have cable, so we’re already unwittingly doing it, but if you have cable and are of a mind to do this, […]
[First pic: We’re going somewhere? Now? YAHOO!!! Second pic: Ummmm, this is a really long hike, dude. Third pic: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!] Today, we demanded […]
The archival permalinks are now working. I missed a step in the Textpattern setup regarding ‘clean URIs’ that I didn’t see the other day. […]
« Here’s how the Boy Emperor supports our troops ». Dr. Strangerummy made the announcement: ‘The Pentagon formally announced Thursday that it had stopped […]
Proof that Ann Arbor is not always a ‘sunless horror, devoid of joy and hope,’ was provided by a gigantic orange ball in […]
Weekend Magazine, The Michigan Daily’s, well, weekend magazine, put out its Best of Ann Arbor issue today and a very well-deserved Best Blog award […]
Technology is a wonderful thing … until it crashes and burns spectacularly. We’ve had our own problems (obviously) with technology here around the manse […]
Until I straighten out the fight between Movable Type and Textpattern over my single SQL database, older comments you may have made on posts […]
Today really felt like the first day of spring. Classes were sitting out holding their sessions in circles on the grass, there was some […]
Well, Textpattern is installed and working … I hope. Comments are back and we’re Movable Type/CGI/Perl-free and mostly PHP (but still XHTML Strict compliant). […]
« This is incredibly disturbing and sad’ »: ‘Out here on the farthest reaches of the U.S. military effort in Iraq, they are calling it “The […]
After pitching a fit with LunarPages, who finally apologized and agreed to restore the entire Movable Type installation, I spent an hour or so […]
The content management system I use to control all facets of AirBeagle.com was obliterated by my hosting provider, LunarPages, today, without notice or warning […]
Walking down Liberty tonight after a movie at the Michigan, we saw the planet Venus rising low in the sky to the west. It […]
A guy from Lansing talking about the two halves of Michigan on a radio call-in show this morning: “We don’t worry about the UP, […]
A random question (inspired by a recent srah post): Does anybody know of any good places to buy tea (as in loose-leaf or bags […]
It was sunny late this morning when I got up (had my first long sleep in almost a week). But the cloud cover rapidly […]
I’ve talked to a few of the second-year students in the past couple of days. The adjectives I’d use to describe them and the […]
It would seem that I’m going to have to start using a peak flow meter on a regular basis, at least until the pollen […]
Apparently we’ve made it to another milestone: a listing in Google Directory. (We’re under Reference -> Libraries -> Library and Information Science -> Personal […]
… there was a huge Good Friday concert in the Diag today complete with a big wooden cross on the steps of Hatcher and […]
There’s a long column in yesterday’s Chronicle on Higher Education advising Ph.Ds on how to make the transition to librarianship, “because the library profession […]
It’s always amusing to watch hypocrisy in action — as when certain conservative library blogs that normally get into conniption fits about any e-mail […]
I lay in a hot tub for a half hour tonight and felt as though it were the first time I had had a […]
Morrissey may not be making great music anymore, but he’s still good with a one-liner (this one’s from tomorrow’s Guardian): Q: What do you […]
Census stories fascinate me. This one, from today’s Associated Press wire, shows that San Francisco County lost more residents in 2002-2003 than any other […]
My presentation was serviceable; it was supposed to clock in at 5 minutes and the professor signaled when I was going over the clock […]
I went to Ambrosia this morning to sit and do some last-minute prepping for my final 643 presentation. A grad seminar (apparently in Mideast […]
It’s nice to know that there are good people in the world. I was in a rush this afternoon, picking up a slice of […]
Well, time to break out the inhaler. Asthma has returned. By the way, thanks, Steven and Bentley, for the Sudafed advice. I bought some […]
It’s good to know that some people have nothing better to do with their time than write letters to their local newspapers (in this […]
No wonder my allergies have been so nightmarish the past few days. I took a look at Pollen.com. A lot of the pollen here […]
Two acquaintances talking on the 5 Packard: “Happy Spring!” “Yeah, right. I’m just glad to see a few hours of sunlight.” Actually, it was […]
What AirBeagle would look like if he did a guest shot on South Park (No, I don’t have a goatee in real life. I […]
That horrible sandpaper feeling in the back of the throat, endless post-nasal drip, a pseudoephedrine-induced sense of doped-up zombie lethargy all day long … […]