still muttering 2009-2010

A kind of answer to the article I mentioned yesterday is here , the point being that if jumps are to be the defining action in mens skating,...

Imagine. Wouldn't that be something to remember?! According to a CNN news report , the White House is accepting suggestions for high sc...

What a shame that there has to be this kind of nonsensical discussion about figure skating and that the silver medalist was such a poor spo...

The twenty-something daughter of one of my friends jetted off yesterday to spend a year in Taiwan teaching English and although of course it...

Bright and sunny pleasant and fun day off in which I got a lot of knitting and neatening done and watched/played Jeopoardy at the laundromat...

I want to wish a Happy Valentine's Day to everyone even though I know it's a greeting card holiday and not "real" the way ...

I am happy to hear that Yarn Harlot is hosting its knitting olympics this year (hat tip to The Village Sheep )! Ravelry is hosting Ravelym...

Blog friend Ligneus commented, at a post at blog friend Alan Sullivan's, that Isn’t it amazing how personal it gets and how close you c...

Pleasantly busy and very enjoyable Saturday with some work, some errands, some hanging out with friends, a fantastic conversation with a you...

Since at the moment there are hardly any subjects of interest other than snow and weather, I want to mention that at this moment, this year,...

Alas they charge $15 for 24 hours of wifi in the hotel and they don't have a shorter or hourly fee so I did not log on this morning to b...

Spent last night and will again spend tonight at a pleasant boutique hotel in NYC and enjoyed last night and expect to enjoy tonight despite...

I don't mean to make light of it but teasing about it feels better than talking about being annoyed when it's not about me and not v...

Bertholdt Brecht and Jimmy Durante would be 112 and 107 today, respectively. A pairing only a very detailed astrologer could love.

I'd really like to do the knitting olympics this year, as in 2008, but Ravelry co-opted it from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and that seems do...

Will be spending tonight and tomorrow at nearby hotel on account of the rumored snow emergency and because my firm wants to be sure of a sta...

There may be quite a snowstorm in the so-called northeast corridor, tonight and tomorrow. My blogger friend, Allan, is well-versed weather a...

Do you ever just -poof- go out like a light? I find that, fairly often, after about 15 minutes at my desk in the morning, I could put my he...

I want to sing the praises of a thoughtful and generous friend of mine who had bought some yarn that she wanted to use for a skirt but she d...

Spent a couple of hours about an hour away from home having a quick bite and afternoon tea and, as always, absolutely loved the vittles but ...

It's astonishing that Charles Dickens would be 200 years old today. (And that Jane Austen's first book was published 199 years ago, ...

Where I live there is nothing to show for the Blizzard of '10, not a drop, not a flake. But 300 miles south, round about Washington DC, ...

Thanks to free wifi at a Borders bookstore, I spent the better part of the afternoon with a huge cappuchino and a bagel, doing work remotely...

Having majored in philosophy and studied religious philosophy, I must say I find it heartening that Obama is a fan (for want of a better wor...

Hoping the DC/Maryland/Virginia area gets through the deluge of snow (can you have a deluge of snow or only of rain?) without too much anxie...

Two dreadful news items, for very different reasons: one, that ten missionaries - if that's really what they are - have been charged wit...

It's one of those sentence-a-day moments when I don't have a clue what to say but I vowed to do this so I have to say something so I...

The evening train was quite crowded tonight which makes me wonder if the economy is inching back to something approximating where it was in ...

The televised ceremony will be on March 7th. The story and headline nominees are here .  Why did they expand the best picture list to 10, I ...

One gripe, one observation; gripe : wheeling bags are absolutely a boon to the health of the people wheeling them along who no longer need t...

A train friend was musing and thinking out loud. He asked me a question for which I have no better answer than to say that I have observed ...

I started doing yoga about four months ago and I love it - it feels fantastic both from a a calming point of view as well as major stretchin...

Pat Boone is 76 (he'll turn 77 on June 1st) and, although his voice isn't quite as agile and able to hit all the little grace notes...

Not sure I understand the logic behind accepting the "I didn't have an abortion" ad but rejecting the "gay dating" a...

We were talking about the origins of cliches and wondering where "two shakes of a lamb's tail" came from. This is the most de...

What is your considered opinion of - and what is your favorite book by - J.D. Salinger Louis Auchincloss Robert B. Parker ?? I'm re-rev...

Observation: my home office / studio is getting out of control as far as stuff that needs shelves and organization but I need to get contain...

I suppose it would be too much of a (dare I say it?) zoo to bother going, but it might be fun and there is always the panda cam.... Tai Sha...

A short but surprisingly severe snow storm hit parts of NY and CT this morning without any warning or little drizzly snowflakes on the Weath...

Watched the first part of the new PBS "Emma" that was broadcast on Sunday and I have to say that I think it's pretty good, par...

I'm loving In Search of Shakespeare which was originally broadcast on PBS in 2004 (can that be nearly six years ago??) but which was ma...

I've been knitting a little girl's tank top - in sock yarn so it has some stretchiness, and it's really looking nice - from a pa...

Yarn Harlot has posted her sixth anniversary essay - her posts are often more essays than posts and she's almost always interesting, in...

It's pouring like a deluge in NYC today. If this were snow . . . .

I love doing the New York Times crossword puzzle every day, which I think I've mentioned before, and I don't want any criticism I ev...

Store proprietors would do well not to outright lie to customers (assuming they want repeat customers) as in the knitting store owner who re...

I've mentioned it before but it's interesting that TiVo apparently has a few-second delay built in which I discovered because when t...

The New York Times will charge for "frequent users" (whatever that means) of their online paper, beginning in early 2011 (read abo...

Thought for today: organizing one's home office - even thinking about organizing one's home office - is daunting and overwhelming.

I am amazed at how difficult it is to select the right words to convey the myriad of aspects of a personality and that leads me to pose a qu...

Good summary and compilation of tributes, here .

The focus of this coming weekend's bookstore visit is pretty much determined now as to what I need to peruse. No problem, since I like ...

It would be amazing if Brown is - really - what he seems, namely, a mixture of points of view, not a tool of either party, not beholden and ...

Writers of novels, songs, screenplays and academic tomes all died this week. Three of them. Two men who moved and entertained millions of re...

The images in "Toddlers and Tiaras" scare me. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise but it seems to me as if the whole enterp...

As if it isn't enough that we have to absorb the profoundly sad event of Robert Parker's death, a very strange thing happened in pol...

NO NO NO! It's wrong and it's years - decades - too early. Robert Parker died this morning . We have lost a friend, a companion, ...

It's Acadia National Park's 81st anniversary today. Acadia is, bar none, one of the most serene and beautiful places on earth and I ...

Since I wouldn't dream of disobeying my conceit of the one-sentence-a-day format, I must write this separately. When I got on the Parkwa...

This was supposedly Blue Monday - the saddest day of the year - (who comes up with these things?) - but I proved it could be anything but. ...

Just finished reading "Up in the Air" by Walter Kirn. It's a profoundly sad story with very little moments of charm or levity ...

Another nice tea day with my sister in extraordinarily pleasant places in Tarrytown that have delicious food, nice atmospheres and are cool ...

I recommend this blog - he's working with a mission that's been working with Haitian children for the last five years. Reading his h...

News conference with Obama, Bush and Clinton - amazing images for those of us who live in the conviction that differences can sometimes be s...

Isn't it just as ridiculous to assert that the earthquake is a blessing - special love from God for those in the path of the devastation...

Nearly $7 million has so far been raised by the 90999 texting effort. In $10 increments. Amazing.

The cold that started assaulting me with sneezes on Thursday was survivable yesterday and now has dissipated to be annoying only when I lie ...

Words one rarely says: recent trips on my commute on Metro-North have been quiet and relaxed, more or less on time and only slightly jiggly;...

I have no idea about either candidate's qualifications or merits in general but this article is one helluva scary thing to read and if t...

It's a year later. Hard to believe it's been a whole year since that crazy, frightening, wonderful day. It's so cold this wint...

The mid-January winter cold got me - not the environmental kind of cold although that's ongoing at the moment - the internal, stuffy hea...

Appallingly and unkindly and altogether unChristianly, Pat Robertson said some things about the Haiti earthquake that are inexcusable and si...

Many thoughts, many things I'd like to say. Basic point at the moment is that it's ghastly. And the apparently dauntless optimist in...

Procrastination is a tool of the truly gifted.

I suppose it would be really bad, only 12 days into this (a/k/a 3% of the way), to chicken out again and say I can't think of a anything...

Too tired to think of anything particularly interesting to say but I committed to doing it, so there.

Am reading (well, audio reading which means my female offspring would have me say "reading") Walter Kirn's "Up in the Air...