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• General, Technology

  Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu

  02.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  IMG_1285 Originally uploaded by thefyd   Last year I deleted a bunch of files on my laptop because I was running out of hard drive memory. Among the apps deleted was whatever allowed the computer to recognize my camera, and hence download photos. So for months I’ve not been able to transfer pictures from my […]

• General

  When all is said and done

  12.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today I took a vacation day from work.  I raked leaves and wrassled electricity.  Most fulfilling, however, was getting takeout from Esparza’s Tex-Mex restaurant for our lunch.  A day with buffalo tacos is like a day back when men shot large beasts with long guns while riding other large beasts.

• General

  Damn Skippy

  11.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  “We have strong indicators that https://www.gryffyddempsey.com is written by a man (93%).”

• Art, General

  Eamon, check yourself

  06.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have no idea why someone would enter the phrase “eamon smells of poo” into a search engine, but someone evidently has, because that phrase has shown up in the list of search queries used to find this site.  I assume it’s not me who smells so, given the alternate spelling of the name. Another, […]

• Games, General

  Après les vacances

  03.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  So, a productive at-home vacation is past.  We have been living in our house for almost four years and this last week I finally got around to putting up the various odd pictures on the basement walls.  Crookedly.  After putting together some storage shelves, I needed to move a shelf that I previously put up […]

• Dogs, General, Walks with the dogs

  A Shadow From the Past

  01.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday evening the power went out for about a half-hour.  Only a few hours earlier I had been walking with the dogs through a several-blocks-long blackout and felt relief when I turned a corner and saw I had reached the border of restored power and that our house was lit.  Whatever was wrong in that […]

• General

  Politics by other means

  12.27.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In my youth in the corrupt capitals of European libertine diplomacy, I attended for some years the International School of Geneva.  Here I will not dwell on my attempts to subvert the plots of Transnational Organized Crime, but rather to remember a day we were called to assembly.  On the Grande Boissière campus that I attended […]

• Books, General, Walks with the dogs

  Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?

  12.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Various: I have a heavy bag and a speed bag set up in the basement.  It’s useful exercise to punch things that won’t hit back.  Yesterday evening I was rat-a-tatting on the speed bag when the internal bladder popped.  Reactions: ‘bladder’ is a funny word; I flinched and ducked like I was having a flashback […]

• General, Politics

  Fear, Emptiness, Despair

  11.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  My mother-in-law is visiting.  It is actually always pleasant to have her stay with us.  Yesterday she and Mrs The Fyd spent some time baking and cleaning.  The clean kitchen apparently meant that cooking dinner was unthinkable, so take-out from Fujin’s was the order of the day.  I requested Mongolian Beef and so made out […]

• Dogs, General

  The Silence of Her Flatterers

  11.02.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  So I took a closer look at my valuable Canadian Quarter and discovered that the creature depicted thereon appears to be a moose, not an elk.  Now I have never seen a moose but people I know who have experience with them invariably describe them as rather rude.  Why a national mint would thus choose […]

G.E. Dempsey