So should be yours! Subject in this post: 1) Dalaran 2) Wintergrasp You won't learn any amazing WoW secrets here, I'm just sharing little insight I get along my own experience in WoW and you are very welcome to ignore anything that doesn't please you. 1) Dalaran Around Lv 50 I set my hearthstone...

Reading WG Sebald I felt a growing affinity, although not with the man himself - I never met, let alone knew him - nor with humanity in general. Indeed, immersed in Sebald, the inversion of Schopenhauer's dictum "The more I love mankind, the less I love men" often occurs to me: the more his fictiona...

n + 1 has a fairly good take on why Bolano matters for U.S. readers. As always, it's nice to see writing on 2666 that actually has something to say; that is, that gets beyond the well-plowed territory that most reviews of 2666 I've read has stayed within. The piece gets off to something of a weak st...

Sorry that this blog has been a bit stale. I've been putting a lot of energy into the cycling photography as well as my real job writing software for robots. I've also been working hard helping put together content for our new Web site: http://www.willowgarage.com/. I'm pretty proud of what we're do...

I came home from work yesterday, exhausted and cranky, and opened the back door.  Suddenly, I was transported to a fairytale pine forest, someplace far, far away.  Someplace with, you know, a lot of pine trees. What the hell? Then it hit me--that's the smell of a clean house!  The phr...

After years of back and forth over whether or not we should hire help to clean our house, sanity and sloth (i.e. my side of the dispute) have won out, and our new cleaning woman starts this morning. I am beyond ecstatic about this development.  Seriously, you have no idea. It's not that Darren ...

...erfolgreich! Beim gestrigen Winterminigolfen bei der "RASOP OPEN" haben vier Teams aus zwei WG´s hart um die Plätze gekämpft. Gespielt wurden zwei Runden mit je 18 Bahnen auf dem Minigolfplatz im Großen Garten. Trotz gefühlter klirrender Kälte haben wir uns tapfer geschlagen und d...

We got our boat wet on Christmas Eve and the good news is that our autonomous surface vessel didn't turn into an autonomous underwater vessel. Much remains to be done -- i.e. the 'autonomous' -- and I can take no credit for any of this other than photos, of which I have posted many. My co-workers ha...