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Climbing

Had my first climbing class last night. The place I go to has a featured outdoor wall with overhangs and optional lead climbing areas that’s at just over 70ft. I haven’t done any climbing in over three years, when I was back at the U of Alaska. When I lost my belay partner, I spent […]

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What’s Happening?

Referee shoots coach from visiting team… I thought for sure this headline was referring to a crazed bunch of adults coaching and refereeing Little League games in the Midwest. Turns out, no: they’re South Africans. Go figure. If this is all CNN will cover in its “World News” section, why does it bother having a

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Crazy Times

I’m not sure how any work gets done… Speaking of work, I’m getting out of here. All the bosses are gone, and I’ve got some juicy PTO time still on the books. Have a great weekend, all. Ciao.

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The Evils of Potter

So there’s this gabe person who lurks on SF/F boards. He employs the use of words like “putzfucker” to “wake up” his “audience” (all three of them), deletes posts from all but his groupies, and tries to make noise even in the most upstanding of debates where heavy hitters like Robson, M. John and Mieville

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Fat Isn’t a Health Issue

From: The Impact of Weight on Your Wallet A study by John Cawley, a professor of policy analysis at Cornell, found that overweight Caucasian women earn 9 percent less than those with svelte silhouettes. And a University of Michigan study reported that the total net worth of moderately to severely obese women falls as much

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What I’m Reading

So, I have a confession… I read Conan novels. Yes, that’s right. The old-school Robert Howard Conan books with the lurid covers of gigantic barbarian man slaying Nameless Terror. Now, I know better than to read these books. I occasionally tote one of them with me on the train and giggle my way through my

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