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One of my (magnificent! generous! marvelous!) co-workers gave (!) me the 2-disc collectors edition of Pirates of the Caribbean this week. Someone had given it to her, she’d watched it and found it not to her taste, and gave it to me after I made a chance comment about my obsession with the movie. I [...]

I am extremely pleased that Oroonoko is the featured article today on Wikipedia. For one thing, Aphra Behn is a personal — if slightly fuzzy in history — hero of mine. For another thing, I started working on the Aphra Behn article years ago when I first discovered WP. I never did much with it [...]

330 PM PDT THU JUN 22 2006 A LONG STRETCH OF TEMPERATURES OVER 100 DEGREES IS FORECAST FOR THE INTERIOR VALLEY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE HEAT WAVE…WHICH STARTED YESTERDAY OVER MOST AREAS…IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. THE WARMEST READINGS WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER THE WEEKEND WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 105 TO [...]

I just went to see X-Men III. Eh, whatever, I like comic book movies. It could have been a lengthy tv episode. But, the credits! My favorites were: – Claw Designer [someone's name, aka "Jimmy Claws"] – Feather department Awesome. And yes, there are spoilers at the very end. I didn’t know this, though; I [...]

So is blogging, apparently. — 1) it is hot here, but in a way that is pleasant in the house with all the shades drawn and a fan going; or in the evenings or early mornings; or perhaps out in the sun in the afternoon in that baking, sunburny kind of way. Sometimes I resort [...]

1) In which I am a bad neighbor. Most awesome thing about living by yourself, part one of nine million? Putting together flat-pack furniture in your living room whenever you want. Like, oh, say, two in the morning. The hammering is unfortunate; but I keep telling myself that the neighbor sleeps several walls away. Besides, [...]