Dog inna Sack

Yay! Is It Nap Time episode 3! I am going to have to take some elocution lessons – I had no idea how much I _mumble_. I sound like a large dog growling gently. In a sack.…

I mean really, Perth?

Nearly the end of another Friday. I’m quite looking forward to the weekend – I plan to finally get around to re-arranging the office at home, plus we’ll be recording Is It Nap Time episode 3. My friend Chris will be visiting for Christmas, but not for very long.…

Perdcurst

We recorded our second podcast over the weekend – as I had hoped, we were worried less about the technical side and more about content. And we said “Um” a lot less. I hate to listen to my own voice – I have a deviated septum in my nose, and lots of…

Are You There, God? Nope? Fine.

Sometimes people I know say to me “Why are you so hard on religious people? Why must you hassle? What harm does it do?” and from time to time I even find myself saying things like “Who cares if the guy that pumps my gas thinks the world is only…

Chronosleep

annettle and myself today vaguely planned, recorded, edited and posted the first (hopefully of many) episode in our regular podcast named Is it Nap Time?. You can download the individual episode itself here or you can subscribe to the podcast as a whole here. We’re not listed in the…

Pluto

I am looking forward to one day saying to some kid “When I was your age, we had NINE planets.” “Gosh!” they’ll say, “What happened to the ninth one?” I’ll look out at the horizon, perhaps glance around, then look back at them. “Space Goat” I’ll say,…

O M G

Annette just got a shout-out and a link from Cory Doctorow over on Boing-Boing. I’m guessing that’ll translate into quite a bit of extra traffic for her site. Awesome!…

Down the Old Kent Road

Is it just me or does “Teenagers” by My Chemical Romance really, really sound like they nicked the music straight from mid 70’s cockney rock band? Tell me the main guitar riff in that song doesn’t sound like Chas and Dave are playing it, and I’ll call…