The New Zealand scientists have an AWESOME blog on their progress with the colossal squid. Not to mention the live webcams! It’s two a.m. in Amman and I am riveted. Screw network television (with the notable exception of “LOST”), and screw sleep. Bill Nye, you weren’t lying when you told my 7th grade self thatContinue reading “The Undiscovered Country: Colossal Squid”
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Христос Воскрес!
Я в гроб сойду и в третий день восстану, И, как сплавляют по реке плоты, Ко мне на суд, как баржи каравана, Столетья поплывут из темноты – Борис Пастернак I will go down to the grave and on the third day rise, And, like rafts floated downriver, To my judgment, like barges in a caravan,Continue reading “Христос Воскрес!”
Oh hell
I very sad and very unsurprised. I was not a regular reader of Black Amazon, but this is the sort of thing that will leave a big gaping hole.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
Amanda apologizes. Racist images will, at the very least, be removed from future printings of the book. I am glad to employ my “Good News” tag today as well. It needed to be dusted off. Should I even use the word “healing” at this point? Well, is it my place to do so? No. ButContinue reading “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?”
Is that an anti-Ukrainian propaganda piece in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
The original text of this piece has been removed. I am not usually in the habit of sweeping my screw-ups under the carpet, but I didn’t want it to generate Google hits that would, once again, paint Ukraine as a country of evil barbarians. In the original piece, I was expressing outrage that Hitler toysContinue reading “Is that an anti-Ukrainian propaganda piece in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Natalia A. 