Uneasy Rhetoric

…is to grow wine on it. We got together with Chris and Margaret this evening after Chris and I did a Trader Joe’s run and purchased a cart full of cheap Merlot, plus one ringer. The goal? Find a wine or two for under $5 a bottle that we actually liked. Read the knowledgeable and [...]

How is it that “Jedi” is in the SpellBound spellchecker for Firefox but “blog” isn’t? For that matter, neither is “Firefox” or “SpellBound.”

If it were legal and safe to wear headphones while I barreled down the Jedediah Smith on my French classic, I might be listening to Soss. I heard this band, put together by a piper and a drummer and “newly expanded,” on Tartan Podcast a while ago and bought the EP “Salt and Soss” as [...]

I couldn’t leave this one alone. The Folsom Auto Mall wants to expand, but Sacramento Regional Transit opposes the expansion (from the Sacramento Bee, January 25, 2006): RT head Beverly Scott said the site, which sits between 1/4 and 1/2 miles from RT’s Hazel light-rail station, should be developed in a more transit-friendly fashion – [...]

Bike Talk Radio was a bicycling podcast/broadcast on KDRT in Davis. The 53rd and final show was ‘cast today. I started listening to it around episode 20 and had listened off and on since. And now the best part about podcasting: archives of all the shows are available.