Little Plates Simone Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Sunny Madrid The mother of one of Annabelle's friends just got back from a trip to Madrid, Spai… Read more
Overheard At The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Simone Friday, September 24, 2010 Artist's rendering of the Phoenix landing on Mars Found in cyberspace: a live chat log from the… Read more
For Your Saturday Night Viewing Pleasure Simone Saturday, September 18, 2010 Frank Zappa on Saturday Night Live in 1978. Enjoy. Read more
Dirty Water Simone Wednesday, September 15, 2010 This is one of my favorite songs from the 60's. We had the 45 when I was a kid. I listened to i… Read more
Gleesome Gladness Simone Monday, September 13, 2010 Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fai… Read more
Muse Simone Sunday, September 12, 2010 A muse painted by Jean-Marc Nattier in 1798 Last week, I was running over land and hillock with my… Read more
Dung Beetle Simone Friday, September 10, 2010 I am excited. Have you heard about the car that runs on turds? Actually, it runs on methane gas ge… Read more
What Ambrose Bierce Thinks Of Custard Simone Wednesday, September 08, 2010 "A detestable substance produced by the malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow and the cook… Read more
They Trust The Monkeys Simone Wednesday, September 01, 2010 Maybe the problem isn't that we have too many distractions in our lives, but that they aren'… Read more
Next To Godliness My sister asked about dry cleaning the other day. She wanted to know what really happens to your clothes at the dry cle… Keep reading
Goin' Incognito At last my quest for anonymity has ended! I'm so tired of being recognized and greeted everywhere I go. But help is… Keep reading
So that didn't work so well... So much for NaNoWriMo. If you go to a victory party, don't look for me. I didn't even break 5,000. But few th… Keep reading
Happy Equinoctial Point Well we made it to Spring. The vernal equinox gives me a chance to stop and contemplate things like math and astrophys… Keep reading
How come their street got plowed and ours didn't? This is reminiscent of the winter of 2011, when I wrote a tongue-in-cheek gripe about the plows forgetting us that got… Keep reading
So Many Eggs The after effect of Easter is to suddenly have more boiled eggs on hand than anyone cares to eat. My fridge is crammed … Keep reading