In his standup-comedy days, forty-plus years ago, Woody Allen did a routine called “Mechanical Objects.”
It was a narrative about the highly mixed blessings of living at the tail end of the Machine Age, at the start of The Age of Electronicus. I found the following transcript of the routine on the Web; I can’t swear [...]

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Like, one who insists on being in your lap as you work? Plays with the keys? The (ha ha) mouse?
Remind him or her who’s boss.
Instructions from aBowman’s site, where I found this (via the wide-ranging Froog):
This lively pet hamster will keep you company throughout the day. Watch him run on his wheel, drink water, and [...]

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From whiskey river:
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
(William James [source])
Not from whiskey river:
I Live in Music
i live in music
is this where you live
i live here in music
i live on c# street
my friend lives on b♭ avenue
do you live [...]

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An epic-fantasy computer game which The Missus and I play every now and then lets your character acquire any of a variety of cool, vaguely medieval-magic weapons. One property which some of these weapons have is called “vampiric regeneration”; while I’m hazy on the details, I think this means (for example) that if you shoot [...]

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[The scene: a small quasi-hallway between garage and kitchen in a suburban house somewhere in North Florida.]
She: [pointing to weird, waist-high structure made of woven twigs and/or sticks, with four legs, a torso, and a head from which antlers sprout] Why is that still here?
He: [studiously ignoring the obvious] Why is what still here?
She: [...]

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Things continue to pop on the real-life superhero front.
A few days ago, I posted an update to an earlier post about real-life people who don costumes, fight crime, have secret identities and sometimes superpowers, and so on. In that first post, from January, I featured (among other crusaders) one Entomo, a “Crime-fighting/Environmentalist/Detective” who “patrols the [...]

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From whiskey river:
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
(Milarepa)
Not from whiskey river:
The [...]

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In a side conversation on a recent post here, my pseudonymous occasional correspondent known as “Froog” recently undertook some research for me. I’d come across this extremely cool wallpaper (well, I think it’s cool; that’s it at the right, and you can click the image to see a larger version); alas, I knew nothing about [...]

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You may remember my post from a couple months ago, about the real-life superheroes who have identified themselves via a site called the World Superhero Registry. I’ve recently heard from one of the superheroes featured in that post (or at least, from someone claiming to be that superhero): Entomo, the “Crime-fighting/Environmentalist/Detective” who “patrols the streets [...]

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Out for morning walkies, the dog owner says, aloud:
No.
(Very good. The dog needs to understand No, and has even at times hinted that she does so.)
And then comes:
Uh-uh. No way.
(Hmm. Well, all right: it’s said in the same tone as No, and immediately follows it. So yes, within the limits of plausibility, the dog may [...]

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