Category: Life

At this USPS page, you can vote for your favorite Simpsons stamp. I may actually buy a set when they go on sale May 7th, even though I have been devoted to the Forever stamps since the Postal Service started issuing them.

Wikipedia has an article Friday the 13th. I was surprised to learn that belief in the unluckiness of this day is a fairly recent superstition.

I missed it that it was Dr Seuss’s birthday yesterday, but Google didn’t..

I wonder if this would work here. I’ve pretty much given up figuring out how Jack’s audio-visual set-up is supposed to work. On those rare occasions when I want to watch something, and he isn’t home, I call him so he can walk me through the various controls necessary.   

As his winter project, Jack decided to catalog our books at LibraryThing. Not much to our surprise, we discovered that we have a lot of really odd books that had not yet been entered into the system.  However, we were surprised that our copy of BILBO LE HOBBIT had cover art which had not yet been uploaded to the system, despite some fifty editions of Tolkien’s book.  I bought that book when I was seventeen.  I have a vague memory that I bought it from a revolving rack in a Marseilles, France train station.  I was desperate for something to read, and figured that I knew the story well enough I could follow it with my rudimentary French.  I can still remember my astonishment when I discovered an English language bookstore my last day in Paris.  What a lost opportunity!

At least the worse of the cold snap is almost over. And we have an adequate supply of space heaters

COSine Science Fiction Convention starts today at the Best Western Academy Hotel. George R. R. Martin’s is the Guest of Honor.

Going.com shows thumbnail images of an amazing number of newspapers covering Obama’s Inauguration. Click on the images to see a larger version.