Snack time!
Sunday, June 29th, 2003Ever wonder what a scorpion has for supper? Wonder no more.
Archive for June, 2003
It’s like watching a train wr…
Saturday, June 28th, 2003Watching a train wreck is like watching a train wreck, kinda. You just can’t stop.
Last night we were about 20 minutes away from the ranch when my uncle called me to say there had been a train derailment in the front pasture, so I shouldn’t be surprised to see all sorts of people going [...]
Vamoose
Thursday, June 26th, 2003We’re off to the ranch this weekend, for a weekend of grownup stuff. Guns, fishing, jeep rides through the wilderness, stargazing, collecting arrowheads, watching wildlife, keeping an eye out for rattlesnakes, black widows, scorpions, brown recluses, and other non-friendly critters, and grownup movies. There’s even a “cold front” on the way through, which [...]
Gauche
Monday, June 23rd, 2003Today was not a good day to be my left hand.
First, in a fit of frenzied cleaning, I decided to give the screened in porch a major sweeping which took about 30 minutes, after which I had a dime-sized blister on my thumb.
Then, as I was cooking myself some spaghetti squash in the [...]
Sex and the Usenet
Monday, June 23rd, 2003Did anyone notice the clever reference to Godwin’s Law in last night’s season premiere of Sex and the City? I thought it was hilarious.
Hrm
Sunday, June 22nd, 2003Well the new Harry Potter book is pretty gppd, although I don’t think anything could have lived up to the massive amount of hype surrounding it. It was a good read with some interesting developments, but really no plot, just plot devices.
The kids are at each others’ throats every single minute they are in [...]
Agony of indecision
Friday, June 20th, 2003I’m trying to decide where to buy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix tomorrow night. I’m all for supporting local businesses, but after my bad experience last summer of going to the Alton Brown signing at BookPeople and realizing they’d run out of books earlier that day, I’m hesitant to try there. [...]
Pondering
Thursday, June 19th, 2003Ever since George W. Bush became president, all the cool kids are telling redneck jokes. If a black man were elected to office, would black jokes be appropriate?
Harry Potter
Monday, June 16th, 2003Am I the only one who’s got her knickers in a twist about this weekend? I just re-read all the Harry Potters in anticipation of the release of book 5 on Saturday. Amazon had a deal where you could order it before June 17 and they will have it at your door on [...]
The Aggies figure it out!
Monday, June 16th, 2003I sent the picture of the mystery bug to Dr. John A. Jackman, a professor of Entomology at Texas A&M. He emailed me back today to say:
That is an adult male of a glow-worm. The family is Phengodidae and the genus is Phengodes.
The females are wingless, luminescent and look like larvae rather than [...]
