Skeuddcvz

The Suds, as it is sometime spelled, is a men’s morris event, held annually by the Bouwerie Boys near Falls Village, Connecticut. It was my first event with the Binghamton Men, back in 2002, and I’ve been back since but not recently — I’m not quite sure when was the last time. Maybe 2006?
I’ll be [...]

On the run

I’ve never been a runner, really, aside from a few running sessions in a fitness class I took in the early 1980s. But our dojo requires running for black belt candidates — you have to run two miles in under 16 minutes. And Kenny’s getting checked for his green belt second tip, which means he’ll [...]

Goals and victories review (May 09)

Goals:
(Recreation and fitness)

Blue belt done
Green belt done
Brown belt
Climb an Adirondack high peak
Complete my electronics project (the WSG)

(Work)

Rewrite polarimeter software progress
Complete next experiment (HAPPEX-III) progress

(Home)

Organize shed
Repair house exterior progress

(Financial)

Reduce debt y y n n y – – – – – – - / N(y(n) means we did (did not) meet my specific debt reduction goal in [...]

Lo, I am become Janus

Access to our basement is via a stairway inside the house, and a Bilco door to the outside. The Bilco door’s condition has been dodgy for some time, but during the winter it finally collapsed:

At the bottom of the stairs from the Bilco door there was an old wooden door which sometime in the [...]

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Wild Blue web site

Wild Blue Morris has a new web site.

If only…

… I’d kept my mouth shut on 11 May and let my comments of 16 April stand, I’d be looking like a frakking genius right now. Oh well.
Word is the price of renewal is a drastically lowered budget. May be cause to worry there. Then again some of Whedon’s best work (“Out of Gas”, “Dr. [...]

Astonishing development

Fox fails to suck.
(Unofficially. According to unnamed sources.)
Alert the media.  Wait, never mind, they are the media.

Omegod

I watched “Omega” today, the season finale of “Dollhouse”. Nice. Alan Tudyk managed to be both creepy and amusing as Alpha. We get Saunders’s backstory, and the bitterness we’ve seen bits of comes out front and center. “Omega” wraps up the season well, while leaving some questions unanswered; no cliffhanger, but I want more. Ballard [...]

Crimson Dark

There was a time when I subscribed to both Syracuse newspapers (one of which has since folded) in part to get all the comic strips, but I don’t really read comic strips any more. I have in the past couple years read two, but only two, online comics, “xkcd” and “Questionable Content“; they’re the only [...]