Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Yesterday, Nancy came into work shaking her head in confusion and with the start of a whopper of a headache. Foolishly she’d begun her day with the radio on, listening to Bush’s press conference. I’ve mostly given those up because I’m really not attractive when I’m purple with rage, screaming at the radio regarding both [...]

This story about the ‘whistles of death’ caught my eye…and ear:
If death had a sound, this was it.
Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.

I’ve never heard anything in a movie that sounds half so evil as some of these.
So [...]

Alison is in the “get another bird” camp, with a few caveats:
1)She wants to be involved in choosing the bird
2)It should be “friendly”
3)It should be “fun.”
4)She wants to be involved in choosing the bird
5)She’d like it to be more colorful.
6)She doesn’t think I should be so hung up on intelligence
7)She wants to be involved in [...]

I saw this CNN headline and knew it was a grey:
Lost parrot gives vet his name and address
The poor boy got lost in Tokyo and was first taken to the police station, but I guess he didn’t want to be a stool pigeon (har har), so he wouldn’t talk to the cops. A few days [...]

A few days ago I put up youtube videos of the amazing Tui, and I’ve since found out she’s lost, having been caught in a crosswind and swept away when Andrew began flight training her.
He told me he has a substantial reward offered and is relentlessly walking the neighborhood and getting as [...]

Hour gongs were being struck all across the city and night-watchmen were proclaiming that it was indeed midnight and also that, in the face of all the evidence, all was well. Many of them got as far as the end of the sentence before being mugged.
-Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

Once a month we, the community, meet [...]

So I received notice that there was something new up on a particular YouTube channel. That led me to look at my other subscriptions, one of which is to Andrew & Tui.
Andrew is a Kiwi living in Kansas and Tui is the African Grey he’s trained since she was hatched. She clearly has his [...]

Charlie’s ferret Nora was quite the trooper. She was 9 (average ferret lifespan is 5-7 yrs), had cancer and diabetes for the last year, and generally she just kept on truckin’.

In 2003, in the midst of renovations, our neighbor announced “Yo weasel escape!” Sure enough, she’d scurried under some contractor to go explore the big [...]

They’re famous last words, of course, but I think I’ve finally wrestled Wordpress 2.5 to the ground and have it largely working. Such is the curse of the early adopter.
There’s now a tag cloud in the sidebar that I’m playing with- the fonts are really messed up, and the red is awful, but I haven’t [...]

I’ve always been a huge Gaiman fan. He’s both softened and sharpened himself since he became a grown up and had his kids. He just seems a genuinely decent sort. Anyway, I guess I’m feeling mushy on a humid Sunday afternoon, so here’s Gaiman reading one of his poems, “Instructions,” about how to behave if [...]