Alive and well, and bearing many new books, photos, and assorted other geeky souvenirs. More to follow.

People who think San Francisco is a more beautiful city clearly aren’t paying attention.

When I was about ten, I spent New Year’s Day swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the warmest New Year I ever had. Last night, we went to the other extreme, welcoming in the New Year on a pedestrian bridge a couple of hundred feet above the Allegheny River in donwtown Pittsburgh,  enjoying nineteen degree temperatures and lots of wind.

More soon.

I have no idea who Monica is…

Christmas, family, food, etc. You know the drill. This year, we hosted my dad’s side of the family (a dwindling group, alas) and my mom took care of her side of the family, which meant she had a much bigger group to face.

Mark and I are off to Charleston WV, Pittsburgh, and Richmond for a week starting tomorrow morning.We’ll be giving the new (to us) Buick its first major road test, and hoping today’s three hundred bucks worth of repairs will have corrected all the problems we inherited with it.

Just in case this turns out to be the last post of 2008, happy New Year.

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry Passes

Depeche Mode
Behind the Wheel, 1987

When I drag up images of myself living in Charlotte in the late 1980s, this is one of about half a dozen or so songs that are pretty much always playing in the background. Others come from such varied performers as The Leather Nun, Tones on Tail, The Information Society, The Cure, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, among others. Maybe I’ll feature some of the rest soon. Or maybe not.

It was time for the Christmas color shift, and I opted for a little stylesheet tweak at the same time.

This son of a bitch stole an entire page from Groceteria, posted it on his own site (images linked directly from my server and all) without attribution and didn’t even include a link to the page he stole it from. Far be it from me to suggest that you add a comment telling him what you think of that, but…

By way of an update, the page was removed shortly after I commented on his site and made some creative edits to the photos he’d leeched.