by CJ | Dec 18, 2010 | Journal
BabylonianMathC2 The Tigris-Euphrates region has no few ‘interesting’ developments: the use of tiles, of brick…it would remain for Mohenjo-Daro over on the Indus to do ‘standardized brick,’ [they were about 2500 BC]—which makes...
by CJ | Dec 17, 2010 | Journal
The link to the new Blood Red Moon cover is up, and it’s, shall we say, hot.
by CJ | Dec 17, 2010 | Journal
The link to the new Blood Red Moon cover is up, and it’s, shall we say, hot.
by CJ | Dec 16, 2010 | Journal
The return of wolves to the wild has made a few homeowners uneasy: a few people checking mailboxes in remote areas have gotten a surprise, and a certain neighborhood had a catfit when it found wolf tracks around the school bus stop —but hey, you hack a hole in...
by CJ | Dec 14, 2010 | Journal
The Pineapple Express is tropical rain, sweeping up from Hawaii. This morning we’re being deluged in sheets and waves, the sort of thing you normally see in the near-tropic South, on the Gulf, and this end of Washington is already having flooding from the sudden...
by CJ | Dec 14, 2010 | Journal
The Pineapple Express is tropical rain, sweeping up from Hawaii. This morning we’re being deluged in sheets and waves, the sort of thing you normally see in the near-tropic South, on the Gulf, and this end of Washington is already having flooding from the sudden...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2010 | Journal
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13dec_globaleruption/ There’s something in Classical Studies about climate change—remember, we’re the guys [in my old academic field] that deal with the oldest written accounts and oldest...
by CJ | Dec 13, 2010 | Journal
I really worry when they come out of torpor. I’d like to see stable cold so they can sleep soundly…but they seem to be fine. I saw Ari, and Gerard, and Rukia and Amy quite clearly: the water’s kind of murky since the pump’s been off, but...
by CJ | Dec 12, 2010 | Journal
…two of the nicest folk on planet Earth. Patty had a signing at Aunties (Spokane’s largest indie bookstore, an institution in Spokane)—and we got together for Lennies’ Thai, which set my diet back 2 weeks, but the evening was worth it. We had...
by CJ | Dec 11, 2010 | Journal
Doesn’t have to be diet. But I’ll put out one that, surprisingly, is. CHICKEN MOLE: whitemeat chicken, already diced [we get an economy packet, cook it on the George Foreman grill, dice it into small Ziplocks, and freeze the leftover] ramekins for...
by CJ | Dec 10, 2010 | Journal
It’s been up to 50 degrees, melting the snowpack on the roofs considerably, which is very welcome. The koi are deep asleep under a slab of ice; and everything is still snow-covered, with dark holes where the footprints have melted down to soil. Last night we...
by CJ | Dec 9, 2010 | Journal
Woke up yesterday with a sore throat, headache, dizzy as a hoot owl, and not feeling well at all, when the two days prior I’d been on top of the world. Yep, the tree. We have to have an artificial tree: I’m so allergic to trees in general it’s...
