Archives for the ‘Luddite’ Category

Thoughts on the End of BSG: So Say We All…

I don’t really want to say anything about the plot or the final episode, or any of the other minutea that I’m sure is being discussed on the internetz regarding the intricacies of the plot/characters.  The BSG team gave us four great seasons full of people and events that elicited honest emotional responses from the [...]

The U.N. -vs- The World

It had to happen sometime and it finally has…  The U.N. is going green.  Sort of.  According to the New York Times, the glass curtain of the famous East River Headquarters will be redone with new super-insulated glass and windows that are designed not to open, which, combined with other improvements in the heating and [...]

Sniff This: A Retrospective

Many wonder if Sniff This lives full time at the Dodd farm, or if he has a lair or a cave somewhere and was raised by bears. A certain sect of Falcon Ridge-goers believe that he is the manifestation of all the mischevious thoughts of the whole folk world. Well, the intrepid, award-winning [...]

Waiting for Flicks Footage

Last weekend was He-Man weekend up at Lake George. He-Man weekend, which takes place on the last weekend of April in a drizzly, muddy, windy version of lovely Tiroga Point, is a tradition that goes back decades. We men of the point all arrive on Friday and converge on one living room (the [...]

Vonnegut, dead at 84

So it goes.

Eggnog Update or Simulacrum Saturday

Quarts: 9
Quart breakdown:

1 Stewarts brand
1 Horizon Organic brand
1 Southern Comfort brand (no hooch in it, they make you buy that crap separately)
1 Hood brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Hannaford brand
2 quarts (half gallon) Turkey Hill brand (my favorite!)
1 quart of Organic Valley Eggnog (which a co-worker raised on a farm laughed at)

Also, I have in my [...]

My Tamagotchi is STILL Alive!!

I was rooting around in my junk drawer and I found him, my Tamagotchi, still alive after all these years.  Hell, I think the last time I fed him was 1997.  What has he been living on this entire time?  He was in a little plastic case, so that rules out any kind of gorging [...]