Life is unremitting hard labor, but then comes a simple handful of blueberries, ripe and delicious, making everything worthwhile for the moment.
Drink arrogant bastard ale, it makes your face go numb!
I have very few material items which I’d protect with deadly force, but you can have my fancy stainless steel barbecue grill that’s directly connected to the 3/4-inch gas main when you pry it from my singed and blackened fingers.
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Sir @ July 14, 2010 # 7 Comments
If you must know, I’ve been shut away in my basement working on a book titled Sodomy and the Lash: An Unauthorized History of the British Navy. It’s an epic story full of lies. And sodomy. I think there’s a market for it.
Actually, part of May and all [...]
Sir @ March 16, 2010 # 7 Comments
There’s a period of academic hazing in a lot of science-related graduate programs, but once that gauntlet has been run, the remaining years may consist of little more than one or two months of mild, easily absorbed pain. Not even pain, really. Annoyances maybe? Yeah, let’s go with that. March is [...]
Sir @ February 26, 2010 # 8 Comments
*Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk**Bonk*
This is what it looks like in print when I bang my head against a wall. One thing that I don’t do nearly enough here is talk about what I do. Why do I feel like I need to do this more or even at all? Because going type-y type-y does less [...]
Sir @ September 21, 2009 # 9 Comments
The muse has been preoccupied with science-related baloney these last few weeks, which has required said muse to forgo all other responsibilities in support of concentration. There are two sides to my muse: There’s the side of her that allows me to hurl drivel onto a white page for random consumption, then there’s [...]