weapons of massdistraction

Naughty Muppets. The husband forwarded a typo-riddled page to me, the content of which alleges the pilot was entitled The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence. I guess they were trying to gear it more towards adults, but it still strikes me as strange. Speaking of which…I had taken a break from television for several [...]

I’ve been peering out the window for the last twenty minutes or so, watching little happen…save for a lone helicopter lazily circling the sky. After a bit of that I decided it was time for more drastic measures. I finally caved in and created a user account with the Star Tribune online. Shouldn’t have [...]

What a great way to kick off the 118th St. Paul Winter Carnival…with a windchill advisory! The little man and I were slated to meet our classmates for a field trip this morning, not far from the Ice Palace…but with an actual temperature of -10 I think we’re going to play hooky. Hopefully the [...]

Yesterday’s accomplishments included, but were not limited to:

Inviting a new friend out to meet some of my old ones (but only one of those showed up, due to widespread flu and PMS problems).
Inexpertly creating my first quilt square, for a good cause.
Obtaining a ticket to next month’s Low show (thanks to a friend[*], who [...]

It’s all bonus material today.

Calling all geeks: your participation would be greatly appreciated in the SF Reading Habits Survey, whose results will “provide material for a book called (provisionally), The Inter-Galactic Playground of Children’s Science Fiction to be published by McFarland Press” (via Neil Gaiman).
The previous should be of special interest to the proprietor [...]