Wed, 18 Nov 2009

Narrative interlude #3

NARRATOR: "After a short absence, Andrew Cusack and his dot-com returned, the latter sporting a lively and attractive new header, and there was much rejoicing."

ALL: "Yay! Yay!"

Mon, 22 Dec 2008

It's like Christmas in December!

TSO added comments and Ellyn at Oblique House activated her RSS feed. It's an historic day in the Catlicker blogosphere.

A day which will live in famy

TSO has comments! And he's an energetic commenter replying to the comment firehose he's opened - I hope that boy can keep up with it. Surely a Guiness or three would help him. I'll start now, seeing as how I've just started a Two. Week. Vacation.

Thu, 27 Nov 2008

Sub tuum

Take a moment to visit Sub Tuum, a very well-written blog by a Cistercian novice at the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Wisconsin (they're also known as the Laser Monks). Today, instead of studying moral theology, he's going through delightful old photographs that belonged to Dom Blaise Fuez, O.Cist., who died recently.

Why aren't I dozing in front of a football game on the teevee? Because we're doing our family Thanksgiving get-together Saturday with our parents here in Small Town, Illinois.

Tue, 28 Oct 2008

The Sarah Palin effect

Jeff Culbreath notes the effect Sarah Palin has on his visitor stats (via google searches, presumably), so let's see if we can tap in to the Sarah Palin effect here at Summa Minutiae. Sarah Palin.

Mon, 27 Oct 2008

Election prayers

Including a novena - from Lane Core, whose long-awaited return to blogging I completely missed. He needs to send more email.

Tue, 14 Oct 2008

Boosting my average

I had two solid hits over at TSO's Spanning the Globe today! [geezer]I still remember the 3-hitter I had back in the winter of aught-four.[/geezer]

Thu, 18 Sep 2008

If Instapundit had a laugh track...

...it would have went off when Glenn Reynolds wrote, "Is there anyone in DC who can manage money?"

Mon, 21 Jul 2008

Ye olde blogg

I've been blogging for six years tomorrow.

Mon, 26 May 2008

Roger Ebert on living life

Roger Ebert continues to blog like the wind - here he discusses the art of living life as taught by Studs Terkel and others. I think Ebert on books is even better than Ebert on movies - as I commented, "The best blog posts are the ones that introduce readers to books they've never read."

Thu, 08 May 2008

It's a Poncerlanche!

Buckeye Catlicker TSO linked to a post of mine yesterday, which accounts for the increased traffic lately.

And I bet no sentence ever written til now has started with the phrase "Buckeye Catlicker TSO".

Mon, 05 May 2008

Tue, 29 Apr 2008

Two!

Looky there! I have two entries in this week's Spanning the Globe - TSO's weekly Academy Awards for (mostly) Catlicker bloggers.

I'd like to thank my wife for her understanding and patience with my strenuous blogging schedule; my kids for their many interruptions that have saved me from long, linear trains of thought; Mrs Harmon, my high-school typing teacher; and our cat Casey for peeing all over my d*mned jacket once again.

Maybe I can parlay this into a hefty raise for my per-entry rate. Pardon me a moment while I rub my hands greedily.

Mon, 17 Dec 2007

I like that Mickey Kaus

He must have worked in publishing a long time ago. Here's his take on TV scriptwriters taking to Youtube to get their ideas out:

It's as if the Linotype operators went on strike and decided to publish their story in four color offset!...

I knew some old Linotype operators at TSI Graphics back in the early 90s. By then there were no old "hot metal" Linotype machines left; their operators had moved on to an arcane German mainframe-based typesetting language called MOPAS. My first job at TSI was to babysit the mainframe and queue up H&J (hyphenation and justification) jobs and print runs.

Sun, 09 Dec 2007

Threading the ice storms

We made it back to Illinois behind one ice storm and ahead of the next.

Blogging from Indiana

ssh'ing via putty from the in-law's Windows box to my linux box at home, running emacs in a terminal. Will it all work?

Thu, 06 Dec 2007

Gah!

So I'm writing some Mathematica code and doing test runs that take a minute or two. In those couple of minutes I could try to think about some other set of code and be crudely interrupted before I can even finish thought one, or I can check the blogs. Blogs ahoy.

One of Joseph Haydn's Masses is chugging along in my headphones when suddenly JACKSON FARGIN' BROWN jumps out at about 100 decibels. Some idiot blogger has set up his/her blog to play Mr Brown's "Somebody's Baby" when it's loaded. Grr...

Thu, 29 Nov 2007

Farewell, bookpeople

John Mark Ockerbloom is closing the venerable Bookpeople mailing list in a couple of days; fortunately, some folks are starting other lists to replace it and JMO himself is now blogging at Everybody's Libraries.

Tue, 20 Nov 2007

Dear webmaster

If your website starts playing music when I visit it, I'll immediately close the damn thing and not visit again.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007

Around the horn II

Fri, 16 Nov 2007

Around the horn

Today's blog roundup

Tue, 13 Nov 2007

Blog nirvana

Dang! The only thing better than a mention in Spanning the Globe is a mention immediately above it :-)

And about the dearth of ye olde archaick language:

"Didst" and "Thy" are, sadly, gone from today's Mass books. Reverence is out, casualness in, both in terms of what we wear to Mass and what we sing.

You might say we exchanged Thy's for thighs.

Random meme

This turned up in a google search for Olive Garden's house wine, Principato.

1. Who is the last person you took a photograph of?

Caroline the new 3-year-old wearing a new dress during her birthday party yesterday afternoon.

2. What decade do you hold the most dear and why?

The 790s, the 1520s... wait, I should probably go with one that had electricity and such. The 2000s - the hectic decade in which our kids grew up.

3. Take the quiz: What mystical creature are you?

Oh good God.

4. What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?

Guinness, cheap wine.

5. What do you normally wear to bed?

Nothing but Brut, baby! Er, no. Flannel shirt & cut-off sweat pants.

6. What movie character do you most identify with?

Yosemite Sam.

Wed, 07 Nov 2007

My blog's reading level

cash advance

<shrug> - hat tip: Chris Weimer at Thoughts on Antiquity (a genius-level blog :-)

Tue, 06 Nov 2007

Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director

Aristotle A. Esguerra has returned to the blogosphere!

Wed, 17 Oct 2007

Who knew?

So it turns out that James Lileks and Bill Quick are really one 1950s-obsessed interior decorator. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.—Lord Peter Wimsey

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