At Susanna's request I hereby link to my wantlist. If you are determined to give me a physical object rather than donate to a worthy charity or simply wish me happy holidays, you might pool …

I Will Alarm Islamic Owls and Hen Gonads still make me laugh.

I have jerky customers, but at least I escape constant profane tirades blaming the worker for outsourcing. And OF COURSE the Indians who work in those call centers will generalize from their experiences, and begin …

Sometimes jerks are right and "he is a jerk" is not a sufficient reason to ignore his criticisms and suggestions.

I almost never link to Amazon.com deals. But this is a fantastic deal: both full seasons of Arrested Development for $31.94. Via Wil Wheaton's weblog.

Please refrain from giving me more dreams like the one last night. Hugh Laurie is fine; anxiety about seeing a Hugh Laurie performance is not. And term papers and transportation anxieties are right out. In …

So this MC Masala is for him, and for a great biology teacher. I don't remember his words. I remember that femur landing softly on my lab table.... Mr. Porter reminded me that excellence was …

I wonder how many of these promises their makers kept.

I thought Alan Furst's Dark Star would be a science-fiction novel, probably because I confused it with the film of the same name. Now that I'm two-thirds through, I've firmly convinced myself that it's Yet …

And I thought Gary Kamiya's Salon retrospective affected me! The letters to the editor warm my heart. I grew up reading Salon, if you can fathom that.... Without equivocation or exaggeration, I can say that …