Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
For your consideration, a brief dispatch from the Life Resembling Art desk:
Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as […]
No Comments » - Posted in Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Eyeball Kid
I’ve been extremely remiss in noting that the new and improved header would not have happened without technical support. I took the photo of Molly, probably a year or two before she died, but it took Heather’s assistance to turn it into a banner.
Now… about those compilations…
4 Comments » - Posted in Home Sweet Home by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Bad Reputation
I’ve long held that no DVD collection is complete without a copy of Red Dawn, a movie that combined the best elements of Cold War paranoia and the Brat Pack to create the ultimate 80s movie. Point Break and Road House are also fine B-movies. So I am glad to see someone else […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Movies by The Silver Fox
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
History Now
Just a leetle bit more with the reference madness this morning.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, the grand old man of encyclopedias, has all its content available online… for a fee. But there are some pretty cool features there that are free.
Like the Britannica Blog, where they write about The Quest for the Perfect Pancake. Man, who doesn’t […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Technology, Librarians & Libraries by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Books About UFOs
Today’s post is going to be all about cool things concerning the information chase, with me dropping some links and generally babbling some things I find fascinating. Feel free to pass this one by if the above doesn’t sound like your cup of tea…
Now then, the information chase has been an obsession fascination […]
No Comments » - Posted in Books, Technology, Librarians & Libraries by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
We Came Along This Road
The Boston Public Library is digitizing their maps and making them available online. I love the Google maps-style control that allows users to zoom and scroll. I was able to get a good look at Q-town circa 1877 and see how much my neighborhood has changed.
No Comments » - Posted in Vanished Boston, Librarians & Libraries by The Silver Fox
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Traditional Irish Folk Song
Tomorrow is St. Paddy’s Day, a day when Irish culture will be celebrated the world over. Millions will gather in pubs to dance and sing traditional songs:
They come over here and they take all our land,
they chop off our heads and they boil them in oil!
Our children are leaving and we have no heads!
We […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Blue Sky Mine
Just testing out a new plugin…
2 Comments » - Posted in Photography by The Silver Fox
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Biff Bang Pow
Just for s. and g. here’s a movie meme I found here. Consider it open source and do it yourself, if you’d like.
1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times.
Well the original three Star Wars films are the first that come to mind, and you can add The Terminator and Sixteen […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Memes by The Silver Fox
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Down All The Days
The other night I was taking another look at the Library of Congress picture gallery I mentioned earlier and this picture gave me food for thought. Note the caption:
A Syrian neighborhood near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live. Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts.”
The first thing I wondered was what did the photographer […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Vanished Boston by The Silver Fox
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought Six
Considering how many people on the left of the political spectrum are in favor of gun control, I found this article - Victorian Gun Crime - about the history of gun control in England - to be tremendously ironic. To boot:
Proper restriction was not introduced until after the First World War. The Firearms Act […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Slithytoves by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
In the Echo Chamber
While looking for something else entirely I came across this site for my old neighborhood. I recommend a trip to Fells Point to anyone who’s in that area, but I post this mainly to point out to the Bunny an opportunity for a pleasant day trip, particularly if he stops at Birds of a […]
No Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid, Eatin' n' Drinkin' by The Silver Fox
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Hold My Life
I added a new category of links to the sidebar: The Librarians. These are all sites I came across when I was researching the idea of going back to school and pre-big decision making ritual of considering all the angles, from every possible angle. Anyhoo, you may find some of them of interest.
And […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Home Sweet Home, Librarians & Libraries by The Silver Fox
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Down to the Seas Again
The U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, also known as ‘Big John’ has made Boston her last port of call prior to decommissioning on March 23 of this year. Boston.com has a decent gallery of photos you can view here.
I was aboard the JFK along time ago, as a guest of my uncle who was flying from […]
2 Comments » - Posted in The Life and Times of the Broadcast Kid by The Silver Fox
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Bell, Book and Candle
Somehow I missed pointing this out before: Bad News Hughes attends the Ren Fair. Priceless.
