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- Here it comes! (A somewhat annual thought on snow and The 716) November 9, 2025
- It wasn’t me. I have an alibi. November 8, 2025
- A quick and random thought about Josh Allen November 7, 2025
- Something for Thursday November 6, 2025
- Thoughts on Taylor Swift (a vlog!) November 5, 2025
- Tuesday Tones November 4, 2025
- A random fact I learned minutes ago November 3, 2025
- “I saw a UFO once….” November 2, 2025
- Dispatches from Planet Monti! November 2, 2025
- “People get ready, there’s a train a-comin’….” November 1, 2025
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AGGHHHH!!!!
So this morning, before work, I went online to check stuff like weather (I’ve never seen a winter this windy, and I spent four winters in Iowa) and whether the school had been closed for The Daughter (it had) and … Continue reading →
Digging?
I’ve just joined Digg and added a Digg button to every post — it’s in the footer there, with the permalink and the other stuff. I’ve been on Digg for all of an hour or so, so I don’t really … Continue reading →
Stay on target! Stay on target!
To whomever came to this blog via this search, I really hope you found what you were looking for, ’cause if you didn’t, I think I may have to reconsider the whole darn thing!
2007: A Year in Blog Posts
I have exhaustively culled through my archives of the last twelve months to select these: the Best Posts to appear on Byzantium’s Shores this year. There may be fewer than in years past, since I’ve allowed my posting frequency to … Continue reading →
2007: Not a big fan.
It’s that time of year again, when I engage in a bit of navel-gazing. I do this questionnaire at the end of each year, so here’s the 2007 version. If a fairly negative tone is detected running though this post, … Continue reading →
Wow, look at all the cobwebs….
Just a quickie post to let you know that I have not been abducted by aliens or conscripted by the Earth Defense Fleet to combat the invading Saturnian Slime Devils. Things are just highly hectic this week. I will post … Continue reading →
Light posting ahead
Hey, all you fine readers! Just a quick note that the next couple of weeks will see a reduced frequency of new material on this blog, as the Gods of Hectic have decided to make me their plaything this year. … Continue reading →
Heading behind the dark side of the moon….
UPDATED Below. Hey folks! I hope you’re all having a fine weekend. And for those of you who were out early shopping yesterday morning, What on Earth is wrong with you??!! Anyhow, this blog will be on kinda-sorta-hiatus for an … Continue reading →
Time to start embiggening my words
There’s a widget going around Blogistan that tests your blog’s readability level. So I plugged my own URL in to see, and here’s what happened: Ummmm…what? Not that there’s anything wrong with this, mind you — Lloyd Alexander wrote at … Continue reading →
Beers! Blogs!
UPDATED below and UPDATED again: Yup, it’s coming up, folks: the official Holiday season social gathering of navel-gazing keyboard pounders known as a Christmas Bloggercon! The date is December 8, the place (since no one’s strenuously argued for another) is … Continue reading →



