Daily Archives: June 21, 2008
Summer Solstice Sunset
Posted on June 21, 2008 10 Comments
Not the most spectacular sunset I’ve photographed this year. But certainly the latest.
Your Home Improvement Tip For The Day
Posted on June 21, 2008 45 Comments
From time to time, you may discover that your sink has become clogged with a large mat of hair. When this happens you must take action. First, grab your bathroom plunger, like so: Then, apply the plunger directly to the mat of hair clogging the sink. Vigorously move the plunger up and down to develop […]
A Sure Sign of Summer
Posted on June 21, 2008 16 Comments
Not unlike the swallows returning to Capistrano, the in-window air conditioner returning to my office window heralds the start of summer around these here parts. The room of the house my office is in is both the warmest room in the summer and the coldest in the winter, thanks to poor air circulation and its […]
Where It Began
Posted on June 21, 2008 60 Comments
You know, as a young teenage boy, I was about as homophobic as any young teenage boy is. Why? Oh, for all the usual reasons, including years of soaking up general anti-gay sentiment without even knowing or understanding it (for example, playing lots of games of “smear the queer” in elementary school), and of course […]
From the “That Doesn’t Actually Make it Any Better” Department
Posted on June 21, 2008 40 Comments
First, yes, I’ve heard about the middle-school science teacher here in Ohio who is getting fired for branding crosses into the flesh of his students with a high frequency generator, and who was also slipping religion into his science teaching. Oops. What stands in my mind, however, is this bit from the article, in which […]
On the Wanting of Good Stories, Or Not
Posted on June 21, 2008 14 Comments
Nick Mamatas, in his capacity as acquiring editor at Clarkesworld Magazine (and also in his capacity as, well, Nick Mamatas), explains why he thinks the oft-expressed editorial comment of “I just want good stories” is a contemptible lie, and eventually stemwinds himself into this paragraph: I don’t want good stories. I want great writing with […]
My Own Fair Use Policy
Posted on June 21, 2008 20 Comments
In the recent fracas of the Associated Press versus bloggers, I noted what I felt was a reasonable level for fair use regarding quoting from news stories (basically: no more than three graphs). So the question now becomes: What do I feel qualifies as fair use while quoting from me, and anything I post on […]
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