BurningbirdI know that many people don’t approve of zoos, but the St. Louis Zoo is one of my favorite places; especially yesterday when there was only a handful of people walking about. The trees are decorated for the evening Zoo Lights, but on a dark and dreary day you can benefit from the lights almost […]
Sheila Lennon has been coming up with wonderous links. First there’s a link to the Poetry Archive. This site contains recordings made by poets of their own works, including several readings by the likes of Kipling and Alfred Lord Tennyson. To satisfy the tweaky types, there’s tag clouds for both theme and form. Most of the recordings have […]
There are times when I feel either I will have to give up my career in technology, or give up weblogging–or at a minimum, not write about technology in my weblog, not read about technology in other weblogs; not allow any association between the two. Luckily, these times don’t happen often, but when they do, […]
My Dad served during World War II. He was in the 82nd Airborne as a paratrooper, and was injured twice while on duty. Through merit and field promotions, he achieved the rank of Captain by war’s end. During the war, he took flying lessons in Seattle. While he was out on a solo flight, he […]
This is what happens when two weblog posts get mangled into one, with an aside or two tossed in for good measure. It does make a nice break from this weekend’s game of Pen the tale on the wonkey.