Went looking for a light bulb. Oh, not just any light bulb, but a dimmable compact flourescent. Yes, they exist, despite the fact that everyone up to and including Home Depot tells me they don’t. I know they exist, because I have one, and I want more. So I find that GE makes one, and […]
As Douglas Adams once said, “I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” Sorry about the absence. Had my head down for a while.
At least that’s what it seems. Hercule Poirot is called in when a chance remark at a funeral may have resulted in a murder. This is from the period where Christie decided to abandon all pretense of examining clues. Poirot solves it by apparently sitting in a room and listening to people talk. This book […]
It’s amusing sometimes, to see what lengths people go to in order to attack things they don’t believe in. In the case of Christianity, they often use strange interpretations of the Dead Sea Scrolls. You remember them? They were found near the ruins of Qumran, and there has been a project going since the late […]
I’ve just finished Forge Of Heaven by C J Cherryh. It was a rough beginning, as witness my spelling rant earlier, but after the editors got their act together, it settled down into the usual fine read I’ve come to expect from her. Before going on, I should note that I have met and talked […]
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