Good crab!

I just have to post this one. I found a fishing pier not far from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and as I was walking out to the end to take pictures of the bridge itself, the real story turned out to be a crab a guy caught. As he pulled it out of the water …

Regarding gmail …

Wow! I swear, in all my life, I never would have thought a post on *gmail* would be the one to give life to an honest-to-goodness *debate*! {shrug} I have clearly misunderestimated! On a related note, I actually — I cannot BELIEVE this — got a gmail invite. Seriously. It came from Allen from Allen. …

Gmail

If you want to see geeks get all fired up, bring up Gmail. Those who’ve got it shrug with quiet modesty and/or arrogance. Those who don’t immediately begin begging for an invite. I first heard about it from my brother. Then yesterday, I saw three women beg a guy from Canada to invite them to …

Yummy!

Today, I had a yummy down-home family-style lunch at a local place called English’s Family Restaurant. Complete with legendary fried chicken! Here’s a picture, just because I don’t see places that look like this much anymore.

NPR, here I come!

I could give you all the background information for this breaking news item, but as it’s only marginally interesting to me, I figure it would be boring as hell to you. So let me cut quickly to the bottom line: I have a meeting set up at 11 a.m. Friday with an NPR librarian! *AT* …

Ma cervelle est en compote

Call it a “backward tongue” if you will (Michael), but the French expression above is one of my longtime favorites and it *totally* applies right now: My brain feels like it’s applesauce right now. I’ve absorbed just about all the information I can absorb at this point, and (thankfully!) there’s just one more session today. …