The following links contain artistic nudity. Rudi Everts is a bodypainter and photographer in Australia who has done an absolutely stunning series of photographs of bodies painted with the signs of the Zodiac. These twenty-four photos — twelve signs on men and twelve on women — is easily the best bodypainting I have ever seen, […]

There were three things that I was puzzling over the other day. I have forgotten two, but if I think of them, I’ll post them here too. But I remember the third, and I’m hoping someone can explain. It’s my understanding that Judaism has some strict requirement on how long can pass between death and […]

Having obtained a suitably large hard drive, I am currently in the process of ripping MP3s from all of my CDs. One part of this exercise is tagging them with id3 tags, and in the back of my mind I know that I have to have everything tagged just right if I am to be […]

According to CompuServe, we’re right on schedule.

I recently realized that I am paying more for phone service in Ottawa than I was in Montreal, despite making hardly any long-distance calls here at all. A close inspection of my phone bill reminded me that I signed up for a voicemail/caller-id/dozen-other-services bundle that I thought would be Real Handy, but that I never […]

Tragic news, comic footnote: It seems the Duke University Medical Center has inadvertently (!) performed a transplant which gave the recipient a heart and lung which don’t match her blood type. This is, of course, a Bad Thing, but plenty of people report bad. I report surreal! This article in the Raleigh News and Observer […]

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I meant to mention in my previous post: Thanks, all, for your comments in my post about crime writing. My to-read shelf is filling up fast! I found a neat local bookstore, Prime Crime, which happened to be a whole block away from the Bridgehead I tend to show up in after work to read […]