Is the PG-13 movie “The Core” OK for children?
Since I don’t have time for a blog post
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Category Archives: What’s going on
The quick obligatory recession post
I found enough coins to treat myself to some coffee across the intersection at Panera Bread Company. When I reached the counter I saw a nice sign standing there with the Panera Bread company logo, colors, and 2008 copyright notice. I tried to take a picture, but my phone’s camera isn’t good and I don’t know how to get the pictures to my computer anyway. It basically said that they wanted to serve quality food at reasonable prices but that they wouldn’t buy inferior ingredients in order to keep prices down. As a result, prices will be rising. The price of wheat, the sign said, has increased 100% in the last few months (six, I think, but I’m not remembering clearly).
I tried to find some discussion of the sign in the blogosphere or on the company website, but no such luck. However I did find a couple of stories that were related:
Not sure what to say about this. Recently, I’ve found myself unable to buy a whole tank of gas. It is not because I don’t have the money in my account (for now at least). It is simply because some psychological point has been reaced and I just can’t stand to fill up the tank.
This might not do anything except force me to stop for gas more often. But I suspect it will also make me think twice about unnecessary driving.
Easter 2007 & 2008: Pick out the growth spurt
The project is dead, long live the project
One down, another to go, and then I’m in free fall. I got tired of documenting the ups and downs of things here in my private business world, so I’ve been filling my blog with important fiction thoughts and escapist theologizing. But, for those who care there is a lot at stake in the next month….
In brother news
I boast, “You haven’t coughed up even one lung yet!”
And my body replies, “Not done yet. I’ll have them both hanging out your mouth before the night is over.”
Now that I’ve found you I’ll never loan you out again!
Gene Wolfe’s tetralogy The Book of the New Sun is every bit as epic as Lord of the Rings, and perhaps even more creative. It follows the life of Severian who is exiled from the Torturers Guild for showing mercy and who, as he says, “backs into the throne.”
Wolfe’s story is set a million years in the future, far enough that the line between magic and technology is difficult to discern. The geo-political setting is that of the eleventh-century Byzantine empire, complete with a war with something that serves as a foil for Islam (as well as communism).
I could go on, but I’m not writing this entry to review the whole book or series (I’m saddened that FantasyLiterature.net only sticks to Gene Wolfe’s more recent material at the moment). I’m writing to brag that I found the version of the hardback that I “loaned” out in Oklahoma and never got back. I have now replaced it. Yay me!
I may celebrate by re-reading the series.
FYI, here is an unofficial fan page, and here is the blog that goes with it.
Anyone have experience with Typepad?
I’ve run into a business problem. Any of you know what I’m missing? If I need to go back to XP, that will be difficult or impossible.
By the way, even with Camino, the new update of WordPress only shows me four of my WYSIWYG options. I have to switch from Visual to Code to do links in the text, or even italics.
Anyone else have this problem?
Likely to be a favorite picture of her for years to come…
(Click on pictures to read about event.)
But then again, I may prefer the action shot to posing:
What do you think?
Upgrade complete
OK, that probably went better than I had any write right to expect (don’t even ask about my homonym confusion).
But I’m not excited about widgets anymore. At least not until I have time to edit everything and anything unique I did to this template and put it in a text box. Yuck.