anacronyms

Gigantic Picture Frames
Holy crap. I should resize that last photo. It’s squishing the sidebar.
Ah, why worry about it? It’ll scroll off the front page in a day or two.
I have some posts that I wrote this weekend while offline. Without further ado:
Dark Matter
I’m not all that up on modern physics, but I seem to remember [...]

We’re approaching HouseApe 2.0’s birthday. He was born September 8th, 2001. Here’s a photo from that day.
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This was taken sometime around noon or shortly thereafter. She was in labour. It was the day of her aunt and uncle’s annual Corn Roast, and we had decided to hurry things along. It worked surprisingly [...]

Control Freak
I’ve started the new job.
Some people like the adrenalin rush of a new environment. I don’t. I like to be in control of myself, to feel like I know what I am doing. I want to be the ‘go to’ guy, the person that people go to when they have a problem nobody [...]

I Can’t Believe They’re Sports
Olympic sports that shouldn’t be.
Synchronized Swimming
Windsurfing
Synchronized Diving – I mean, please. Combining TWO judged ’sports’?
The sxKitten has pointed out that I’ve already done this. And she thinks that the cycling sprints, where they go as slow as possible, is dumb. Can’t say I disagree.

Parting
There are people I’m going to miss here. Names have been changed to protect my ass in case one of them happens across this place.
Tyler – Tyler is younger than I am. We used to work together at our mutual previous employer. He’s the one who got me hired here.
He’s got some weird kind of [...]

Whaaaaa?
Just what the hell is this?

Thursday, Just Thursday
Why do people who make formulaic movies think they can sing? (via Lileks).
I’m in an odd mood this morning.
The end of summer has always been a restless time for me. I’ve always felt the need for change, for movement. I think this has to do with years of starting school in September, [...]

Speaking of the Olympics: Michael Phelps’ diary at the Baltimore Sun. Subscription required.

Top Two Annoying Summer Olympic Sports

Gymnastics – tiny muscle-bound people bounce around frenetically, and are judged.
Synchronized Swimming – Women with incredibly tight hair and waterproof makeup stick their asses out of the water, and are judged. Those noseclips are scary, too.
Top Two Cool Summer Olympic Sports

Women’s wrestling – think of it as a high-powered game [...]

Breakthrough
Not on the fiction front, alas. On the job front.
Those of you who have been following this saga (approximately 3 of you) knowthat I was forced to take a job some distance away last fall. I commute 41/2 hours up on Monday morning, then 4 1/2 hours back Friday night, and livein a woman’s basement [...]