So the President gave a speech in which he used a modified form of Elizabeth Warren’s claims that “nobody builds a business alone”: “If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have…
funday morning.
Back from Readercon. I got to meet friends again I hadn’t seen since last year, meet new unsavory writer and editor types, attend awesome readings and panels, drink fine liquor and interesting new beers, and eat grown-up restaurant fare with other grown-ups while talking shop and making bad jokes for three days. Thanks to my…
betcha he was wearing flip-flops and oakleys, too.
Dumbass of the Month award goes to this guy, who taped himself going 180+ MPH on a busy Canadian highway on a motorcycle. Runner up is the dumbworm who made this comment on the CNN intertubes site: “Aaah…how, exactly, was a guy on a motorcycle going to kill anyone? Most likely case: he crashes into…
newsletter from castle frostbite, july 2012.
Oh, hey there, Internets! Team Munchkin Wrangler had a busy week and a relaxing weekend. The kids enjoyed their science summer camp, and I enjoyed my five morning Dadcations. Lyra was in preschool day camp, which let out at noon, and Quinn’s camp let out at 3. I dropped them off in the mornings, went…
science camp week.
The new chicken run, completed and populated. This week is a complete change in pace for us. The kids are attending a science day camp every day until Friday, which means we leave the house early. I get to drop them off and then take a few hours out in Hanover or West Lebanon to…
i approve of this movie trailer.
Epic, and much better than the source material. (To non-parents unfamiliar with that bilingual little pest, this won’t be half as funny.)
desperate times, desperate measures.
The fox is still out there. The chickens have been cooped up in their house for three days now, and they are getting a little fidgety. This weekend, the temps will hit the 90s again, and then Cluckheim Keep will be too warm during the day. So we had to commission a quick emergency project—a…
fox two aftermath.
I got Chicken #8 back yesterday, but it took me a few hours. She was hiding in the underbrush and wouldn’t come out, fleeing from me whenever I tried to approach her. The other chickens were all safe in Cluckheim Keep. Foxes are smart animals. They remember the location of an easy buffet like a…
fox two.
Another fox grabbed a chicken on the front lawn just a little while ago. I ran out, and he let go of the chicken and ran off. This time, I didn’t have a good shot, and he was running toward the public road anyway. Two hours of patrolling and coaxing later, I have seven chickens…
the downsides of green policies.
The German magazine Der Spiegel has a great article on the unintended consequences of Germany’s strict environmental regulations and their effects on everyday life. This plays into what I mentioned in an earlier blog post: that to a lot of policymakers and voters, negative results of a policy are almost entirely irrelevant as long as…