“Let us think the unthinkable
Let us do the undoable
Let us prepare to grapple with ineffable itself 
And see if we may not eff it after all”

About four feet behind me, a dog named Froggie lies in his crate, door ajar, struggling to breathe. He’s on a hundred milligrams of one drug and more of another. The X-ray of his rib cage looked like, quoting our…

Marlene Vis, my aunt, passed away this past Saturday, aged 63, loosing a prolonged battle with cancer. I know it’s trite to say that cancer patients “fight” their disease, but if anyone had, she did. Sent to hospice twice, she…

On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314

Lillian (Hulst) Vis, aged 85, died Friday, 24 August 2012. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerrit, and a daughter, Erma Vis. She is survived by 3 sons, a daughter, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, me amongst them. My grandmother…

Noel Gallagher – Teotihuacan Because I like this song.

Poor Rick Santorum. When he isn’t making sure you know gay marriage and adoption are “violations of natural law” (his words) or that the Super Scary Sharia Law is already here, he’s got this small Google problem. Google his last…

Silhouette Vinyl (tags: vinyl silhouette)

Acrobat’s Adobe PDF Printer Replaced in Snow Leopard | InDesignSecrets Apple, in their infinite wisdom, removed many features required for imposition printing from InDesign in Snow Leopard. This thread has some solutions. (tags: indesign imposition printing) Create Booklet 1.1 support…

YouTube – TEDxObserver – Cory Doctorow (tags: facebook skinnerbox doctorow)

Language Log: The Dan Brown code (tags: awful books fiction blarg)