There’s been some confusion amongst the family and friends about the status, number, and make of our new family member, so I thought I should clear up whatever I could. The cat’s name is Knightley. However, that is subject to change. If you remember, Emma was first named Flannery, but I kept calling her “Fannie,” …
Monthly Archives: July 2006
2006 Glen: Arrival
Rolled out of bed this morning around 4am so that we could be on the road by 5. The new cat–whose arrival and name need a separate post–was totally baffled but very happy that we were up at such an early time to amuse him. It wasn’t until we were on the Turnpike that I …
Dune: The Battle of Corrin
When men achieve paradise in this life, the result is inevitable: they go soft, lose their skills, their edge. –Zensunni Sutra, revised for Arakis When I picked up what is hopefully the last of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s last attempts to feed off the legacy of Brian’s dead father, I didn’t really have …
WAMP5, MySQL, PhP, and other horrors
So, after about a month of being on our new host and running WordPress, I really, really, really want to modify/create a unique template for truffin.com. Yesterday during a break from GRE scoring, I stumbled upon the UrbanGiraffe who has a very interesting WordPress Theme Guide. Feeling warmhearted towards my fellow man for making such …
A Friend is on the way
So, after a late night of computer bashing and a long morning of publishing frustration for Sherry, we headed out at 1:00 to the Seneca County Humane Society to find a friend for little Emma. People have been asking us what we were looking for in a new cat, and both Sherry and I were …
The Kingdom: Series 1
Last year sometime we rented Kingdom Hospital, Stephen King’s adaptation of Lars von Trier’s made-for-Dutch-television series Riget. The American version was had a kind of quirky Tales from the Crypt meets Chicago Hope-musical sensibility that, while interesting, did wear a bit. We’re still not quite sure what the giant ant-eater was all about. Having now …
Let us break pizza together
So, 13 years ago at this time Sherry and I were eating supper in a McDonald’s on our way to Ashtabula, OH where we had reservations for our first night as a married couple. We would spend the next few days in Niagra Falls and Toronto, taking in Phantom of the Opera and a Blue …
The Lectionary Muse Meta-Observations
So, the lectionary based on the Book of Common Prayer features a three-year cycle. Each year is labelled A, B, and C. There’s some formula for figuring out what the year is; I’m sure that there’s someone out there who has discovered that it’s based on some Druidic astrological incantation that will send us all to …
The Perils of Living in the Country
So, Monday is our 13th wedding anniversary, and we had planned on celebrating by going to an Indians game Friday night, attending the Cleveland Irish Festival Saturday, and maybe going out to a nice dinner on Monday. The week leading up to the weekend couldn’t have been less inspiring. We returned from Chicago with Todd …
Just plain wrong
Today’s IMDB “Daily Poll” asks “Which Academy Award-winning Best Adapted Screenplay of the past ten years is the best?”. Thus far, with 3223 votes cast, the leading selection with 31.3% of the vote is The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Now, it is no secret to anyone who knows me that a) …
