Daily Archives: August 15, 2008

The List - Full Moon - August 2008

Again, it is time to list the names released since the last moon phase; the moon actually goes full tomorrow afternoon, but as I may not be here at the computer much on weekends, better early than late for those who may be looking.  As always, my heart goes out in sympathy to the families […]

Just for the Badtux

A penguin has been granted knighthood in Norway.
It begs the question, oh Snarky One, is your lack of “Sir” due to too much snark or an insufficiently Viking-spirited snark?
(story at http://tinyurl.com/5e2ftl )
I tried to snag the picture, but it screws up the whole blog format for some reason.  ::::runs giggling into her weekend::::

The Bear on the Wrong Side of the Bed

Wow. Let’s see now, by my thinking, we have already helped provoke the crap out of Russia by meddling about in Georgia, that whole “missile defense system” thing, and now, the possibility (even the whisper of possible) that Americans were helping the Georgians attempt to kick South Ossetian ass.
But now, promising Poland a missile […]

Friday Bookworming

I am lazy in summer.  I have several thin, but heavy tomes under way, but keeping diverging into fiction.  With varying degrees of delight and disgust, I must say!
This weeks diversion, like most of my reading, was not new.   I hate reading the newest stuff right away; I ascribe to the idea that enthusiasms are […]

Wherein Your Writer Chants Obscenities…

Your faithful, if spotty-logic’d blogger is married to a retired career military man. Her Minotaur spent a number of years with the guys in the pretty almost Robin Hoodish green hats, and so she takes a special interest in the doings of the Sci Fi Green Beanie dudes. She well understands they are […]