Posts Tagged ‘People’
Kate Bailey. She of the wifey-ness! Her take-charge attitude of 2011 was amazing, especially considering that she spent half the year pregnant. We bought a house, moved across town, and began preparing for the arrival of Edwin Cooper Bailey (ship date in Q1 of 2012), and throughout it all, she was on her A-game. Very [...]
1. The idiots were out in-force on the roads this morning. Mostly it was I-35E that was the issue. I had the cellphone yakker who decided to change lanes without looking or signalling while I was in her blind spot. I laid on the horn pretty hard and she snapped back into her lane, and [...]
Photo courtesy of dunechaser. Licensed under the Creative Commons. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and I wrote nothing in here about it. From that, you could infer that this factoid is meaningless to me. That inference would be wrong, despite my being born four years (and change) [...]
While Clarke wasn’t my first foray into sci-fi, he was the first author I really devoured, back in my early teens. The library was well-stocked with his works, and I tore into them: 2001, 2010, the Rama series, Childhood’s End…you get the idea. He really helped hook me on science fiction. I’m still hooked, really. [...]
Photo courtesy of givepeasachance. Licensed under the Creative Commons. I got my first surreal phone call of the year at the bike shop this weekend. It was way after hours, and a guy who sounded like he was in his forties and moderately drunk and/or high, called to ask about books covering training for track [...]
The cycling community lost a great individual last night — apparently, Sheldon Brown died of a massive heart attack, and that has been confirmed from the Harris Cyclery’s website, and other sources. Among the people at my shop, Sheldon’s website is a regular go-to for information — I’ve referred to his wheel-building articles repeatedly over [...]
