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Random Bits About This Blog

Caveat: I do edit for typos, bad links, and frankly, wording that makes me cringe after posting. Will I change text to make a foolish statement wise? Absolutely not. Except if I speled the folishness rong.

I fact-check. A second look never hurts; if the information is incorrect or incomplete or out of context, let me know. Do keep in mind this is the work of one person with the fallibility and biases that implies.

Miscellany

• The blog was started as a way of generating text for RSS, among other reasons.
• Favorite movies include Blue, Lion in Winter, and Cool Hand Luke.
• I almost lived two whole days without dairy products. Shiver. Never again.
• About every other game of Monopoly, I spend most of my time paying to leave jail or paying someone else's rent.
• Recent music listening: Sephardic folk songs, JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and the Clash, London Calling. Why? Duke Ellington said it best,There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.
• I am always in the middle of more than one book. Current ones: Crazed, Linux Server Hacks. Just finished Neuromancer and How to Cook a Wolf. Several ones sitting around waiting to be finished: From Dawn to Decadence and Tristam Shandy, Molly Peacock's poems.
• Books I want to read, but haven't yet: Maus, Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation.
• Food is not just a necessity, but a way of life. And way too enjoyable to be missed.
• I know lots of useless, but entertaining trivia. Good for parlor tricks or trivia nights at local watering holes.
• I read horoscopes for the laughs. This month I pretend to be pisces.
• I should memorize more poetry
• It's time to put skydiving back on the fun to-do list, esp. as I can't locate the picture of my first jump.