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We went to see Trilogy Tuesday last week, seeing two extended edition LOTR movies followed by the premiere of ROTK. Line for Trilogy Tuesday...

This is all Neil Gaiman's fault. He said he found the politics self-test at the Political Compass site fascinating. I must say, he w...

Before I became a Hugo or Nebula fan, I was (and am) an Oscar fan. Despite the fact I have wildly mixed feelings about popular awards (don...

( Permanent link to this essay ) People frequently use other people as props. This is most common in families - think of the way most paren...

I was at an early evening party in Pittsburgh tonight. It was cold but fairly clear, and a number of us put our coats on and went out on th...

Another wedding, another driving trip to Massachusetts (some ten hours away): From the left, Rachel with her fiance Jeff Trask (brother of t...

Around getting caught up with some Noreascon 4 stuff this weekend, we went to the movies twice. We saw Under the Tuscan Sun (a mostly cha...

Jim and I were up in Massachusetts attending Jim's brother Bill's wedding: (from left) Laurie, Leslie, Jim, Bill, Heather, Bill and...

I had a much better time than I expected to at Torcon. Due to work and way too much traveling the rest of the fall, we arrived Thursday aft...

Yay! She wound up with her Associate's degree from ITT Tech in Computer Technology - Hardware.

It's worse, and I have Confluence and bunches of other things to worry about... Anyway, to briefly amuse myself, I took the "What S...

Well, I got my cholesterol retest results today. In three months, my total cholesterol went from 253 to 215, and triglycerides went from 270...

I may not have noted it here, but I had a check-up in March that included the report that I have really high cholesterol. How high? Don...

I love those online quizzes, and read about a doozy over on theonering.net . It's something of The Ultimate Geek Test . I scored a 37....

I've been fighting writers block (or not) for most of my adult life. I've been writing fiction since I was a child. I collected a ...

I've been thinking about writing this for a couple of months, and finally finished it today. I posted a link to this essay on TheOneRin...

Back in early March, Jim wrote a very good letter to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on the history of US-France relations. Unfortunately, at ...

The folk(s) over at uggabugga (thanks to Leslie Turek for linking to that one!) found even more unbelievable quotes from my (gulp) senator...

[[When I get on a roll...]] Dear folks, I cannot comprehend a greater oxymoron in this day than "gay" and "Republican." ...

I adapted the letter I wrote to Santorum, and it was published in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/le...