Memnison Journal

The Bruce Schneier Action Figure!  At $100, it’s a steal!  Be the first on your block! Now, i’m just waiting for the RJ Johnson and Bill Roper Auctioneer Action figures…

Big site for museum reproductions also does sculpture items like this item from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.  I guarantee it’s like nothing you ever gave out as a present before to your third-grade teacher!

No, this isn’t an advertisement as such.  Both the US and UK versions of Amazon are running DVD sales, and I’m listing out my ooh-that-would-be-interesting list for my purposes (and your edification, in case you have similar interests). Note that I have multi-region / NTSC and PAL reading DVD players in the house, and that [...]

Right here.   The really hard stuff, too.  And then you can go for these, too.

(Buy it now here!) What do you get, When you open the top, And look inside, And smack your lips, And turn it over, And spill it out? What do you get? Lip-smacking’ Whipcrackin’ Paddywhackin’ Olagazackin’ Infolackin’ Alliganackin’ Crackerjackin’ Cracker Jack! Candy-coated popcorn, peanuts, and a prize… That’s what you get in Cracker Jack!

…said Abraham Lincoln. Amidst the tons of Sidewise reading and whatnot, I’m also reading Paul Riddell’s Greasing the Pan. Since it’s all basically essays and all of the material is reprints from deceased magazines and the like, it’s not like you HAVE to read it all in one sitting.  It would make good bathroom reading [...]

We tossed our many-years-old and majorly defective strings of Christmas tree lights, and are in the market for a new set.  A thought crossed my mind, though – are there such things as LED Christmas lights for trees and if so, where can they be found?  (Or if you have a good source for Christmas [...]

Recently, Susan and I have been up to her Aunt’s house in Elgin or out to talk to her about her computer problems.  Auntie (Susan’s mom’s sister) operates a doctors’ organization that has a couple of big yearly meetings (for training updates, and other conference stuff) and some smaller ones, and it’s sometimes amusing to [...]

Some last pictures from Meredith’s trip to see her sister; both of them have been sad and miss each other a good deal. More at the set at Flickr here.

No, dammit, I’m not talking about your binges at Amazon.com.   I’m talking about those areas where Unless You Pay, You Can’t Get In.  I will, for the sake of argument, allow inclusion of the places you pay to download all of your MP3 crack and the like, but only for the stuff that is digital [...]

This week’s OPUS, as the penguin relates to the ideals of the Bush government – don’t worry, keep spending money. Of course, if you don’t think about things, you won’t realize that (a) you’re being had, and (b) that you and your country are spending yourselves into oblivion.

Meredith has been waiting very impatiently for the downtown Lisle store called The Book Nook to open up with a setup for ice cream and other goodies – this is a child who likes mochas from Starbucks, and has a really discriminating taste for ice cream (and likes both quality and odd flavors). Finally, the [...]

Some seriously good items on how the horrible economic picture courtesy of Dubya’s Gang Who Can’t Shoot Straight is starting to seriously impact people on a day to day basis. But first, a personal note.

Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed, but plans to sue again on First Amendment free speech grounds. “My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up,” she said.

For some reason this appealed to me. Ganked this one from Quietdarkness on LJ. Instructions: Copy this to your journal. Replace my answers with your own. Let your friends learn a few known facts about you.