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• General

  End-of-month Evaluation

  10.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Accomplishment: I have finished The Sopranos.  Not wishing to spoil the ending for others, all I will say is that I found it, after some thought, to be a perfect way to cause the viewer to reflect on their own about what might follow. Non-accomplishment: I cannot find out which coach gave the Ducks their […]

• General

  Sweet Willy Rollbar

  10.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently someone slipped a Canadian quarter (an “Elkie”) in my change.  My first thought was to arrange for the coin’s repatriation, perhaps in exchange for one ounce of beer.  Then I realized, what with the current impaired value of the US dollar in international conversion, that this was an investment-grade trove.  I had best hang […]

• General

  Money, TV, Tragedy

  10.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Earlier today one of my online email sites showed an advertisement promising, to those who opened a trading account, a copy of Currency Trading for Dummies.  I don’t know much about this, but I do know that the daily volume is well over a trillion dollars.  That should give the average day trader an idea of […]

• General

  FEAR FIRE FOE

  10.22.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  The Pacific Northwest faces its own share of natural disasters, so this post is not written in smug safety.  We get warnings enough of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis that the historical record promises us.  When we look on the horizon we can see the sleeping volcanoes.  The wet and windy winter storms we’ve been experiencing recently […]

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  Saboteur

  10.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today was a lovely, warm fall day. Between bouts of yard work I went for a bike ride. No one screamed at me from passing cars, which was nice. The bike lane, however, contained many broken bottles. Apparently the locals don’t like bikes. However, the saying has it that it’s the broken glass you don’t […]

• Books, General

  Prizes and Gifts

  10.11.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve not read anything by Doris Lessing that I recall, so I don’t have any opinion whether or not she might be worthy of the prize announced today.  However I do have to wonder if any writer still alive really deserves the Nobel more than John Updike.  I recently read The Collected Henry Bech and clever man […]

• General

  “He was never known to make a foolish move.”

  10.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The lyric quoted above gives a different connotation in context, but my appropriation of it is still apposite.  I’m not one for the rash move, at least while sober.  Why, my first date with Mrs The Fyd was initiated by an email from me.  Even then I was apparently characteristically ambiguous, because she at first didn’t […]

• General

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  09.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  When a cartoon cat says it better than you can, stand back and let the big cat speak. In other news, the ugly pickup I bought in July actually passed its emissions test this week.  My mechanic probably thought he was gonna get rich making it street legal, but I took my chances on limiting […]

• Books, General

  Lookie thar

  08.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hey ho, Chochachos, Mrs The Fyd has a new blog, here.  In other news, I am reading Peter Brown’s The Making of Late Antiquity and I wish I was that smart.

• Dogs, General, Music, Walks with the dogs

  Things Fall Apart

  08.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  My headphones, Koss PortaPros, seem to be about to fail.  Recently they have been yielding more distortion than music, leaving me with the feeling that I will hear the beep of Sputnik at any moment.  Luckily I have spare headphones, and more luckily Koss will repair for free (with a small s/h charge) the product […]

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