Recent Sp*m: Mote in Thy Neighbor’s Eye, Log in Thine Own
certainly like your web-site but you need to test the spelling on quite a few of your posts. Several of them are rife with spelling issues and I in finding it very bothersome to inform the reality then...
View ArticleSciuridaceous* Appreciations
Here in the US, January 21, 2013, presents a veritable bounty of reasons to celebrate. It’s the (celebrated) birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; it’s the (celebrated) quadrennial ceremony of the...
View ArticleMidweek Music Break: The Bedquilt Ramblers, “(You’ve Got to Walk That)...
[Image: still from the game Kentucky Route Zero, Act 1: the Equus Oils service station] Other than as a Kickstarter supporter from a couple of years ago, I’ve got no particular vested interest in the...
View ArticleADMIN: Sending Long RAMH Posts to Your Kindle
I’ve added a new feature to the blog which, in one respect, gives me something you could easily call pause. But on balance I think it’s a good thing: You probably already know you can subscribe to RAMH...
View ArticleThe Only One of Us with the Coordinates for This Destination and Its Hardware...
Surely I’ve said so before, here and elsewhere, but just in case it’s fallen through the cracks: I really, really like being friends with — just knowing – smart people. I could cite any number of...
View ArticleRAMH@5: Cherchez les Femmes (A Playlist)
[Image: Fifty-Three Stations of Tokaido: 44 (Yokkaichi), color woodblock print (1841-34), by Utagawa Hiroshige. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] Well, damn. I just...
View ArticleStory Up My Sleeve #1: “Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman
[Don't know what this is? See the Story Up My Sleeve background.] “Any customers?” “A woman by the name of Sigrid Bjornsterne said she’d be back. A looker.” “Swede?” “She’d like you to think so.” I...
View ArticleSorta-Kinda Blogging, on medium.com
I’ve posted my first entry at a new “blogging” site, called Medium. From the post’s title and subtitle — “Scribbling in Books: To ‘deface’? or to ‘annotate’?” — you’ll pretty much know what it deals...
View ArticleOn Medium: “The Great Google Books Hack”
I’ve posted a new entry by this title over at Medium.com. Excerpt: …my ignorance of and fascination with music sometimes lure me into bizarre alleyways of research. The lighting there is poor. Steam...
View ArticlePotpourri, June 18th (2013 edition)
[Continuing in what seems to have become an annual June 18 tradition, of commenting about whatever the heck I want to...] [Video: Neil Gaiman signs 1200 copies of his newest novel, The Ocean at the End...
View ArticleGobsmacked by Natural History
[Image: Cover of The Golden Treasury of Natural History, by Bertha Morris Parker. Colors tinkered with a little to match its present look as closely as possible.] A holiday, a small bedroom in a small...
View ArticleA Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon
I don’t know Aubyn Eli and am not sure how I got to her blog, The Girl with the White Parasol, as I did for the first time back in May or June. But I know what attracted me there: her planned week-long...
View ArticleBarbara Stanwyck, Crime of Passion, and What Goes on (and Doesn’t) Behind the...
Note: This is a detailed recap and review of a film now nearly 60 years old: I’m not going to be coy about spoilers (including stills from the film). If you don’t want to know what happens, I encourage...
View ArticleUgly Phrase on First Bootup: ‘CPU Fan Failure’
The new PC I’ve been salivating about arrived yesterday — yes! on a Saturday! I did all the necessary last-minute backups and so on, exported various programs bookmarks/favorites and settings, and even...
View ArticleWeekend (Something Like) Music Break: The Lake House Band, “Five Dollar...
[Image: "laundry day," by user eleanor ryan on Flickr] You’d think a computer professional who got new computers both at work and at home within a few days’ time would be in a shuddery ecstasy of geek...
View ArticleMark This Moment
[Image: partial screen capture of a page at Google Books. The worker scanning the pages of The Coquette has allowed his or her gloved finger to be recorded for posterity.] From whiskey river...
View ArticleSkimming Tangentially Against the Agented Universe, and the Scriptwriting One
[Don't read too much into this RAMH post's title.] Last night, I and 40+ others participated in an interesting webinar called Agent Reads the Slush Pile. It lasted from 8pm Eastern time until close to...
View ArticleReimagining the World
[Image: "Imagination," one of a series posted on Flickr by Inara Pey. (Click image for full-size original.) The images in this set are all digital creations -- scenes from the Second Life...
View ArticleAn E-Publishing Experiment: Short Fiction for Under a Buck
I am not even close to the first person to wonder: is it possible — let alone worthwhile — to sell short short stories piecemeal, directly to readers, without going through the intermediary of a...
View Article“After the Ecstasy, the Laundry”
[Video: "Behind the scenes" look at the making of a pop-up "art book," Everyday Wonders, which was created to advertise the features of a new Samsung smartphone. (The advertisement itself is here.)]...
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