Startling and deeply odd catch, and even more starting explanation, caught by Jon and posted to Slate.

(Startling, I should add, not in its great complexity or truth, but simply that there actually is an explanation for such strange thinking, and startling in that Jon somehow managed to ferret it out.)

The power outage that took down this site for much of today, that is.

Guess I’ll try not to trip over that cord again.

Finally, a plausible scenario, courtesy MediaFreeze at Kos.

Via Skippy, whom I had lunch with yesterday and realized I had actually seen many times on TV.  (There’s a reason he claims to be a Kangaroo.  Beyond the sheer glamour of having a pouch and all.)

Prisoner of Trebekistan got a really nice blurb from Ira Glass of This American Life the other day.  Yippee!

Wow.  I’ve been a fan of the show for many years.  I’m truly thrilled.  Starting to think the book won’t be a total fiasco after all.

You’ll soon see Ira’s full blurb and a bunch of other stuff on a section of this site just for the book itself.  I’ll be working on that in the background for a whiile, so if the main blog slows down for a few days, I’m just putting up other stuff you’ll see (and, I hope, really enjoy) later on.

The Trebekistan page will probably have the usual book stuff

Finally buying a fancy new Mac to replace this old and slow piece of recycler-bait I’ve been using.

Weirdly, the first three times I got to the order page, this computer crashed the browser just before I could place the order.

I assume there’s a rational explanation, that this was simply because there was something weird in one of the site’s ads that was causing the crash.  But still.

I wonder if the machine I’m working on dreams of unicorns.  I hope I don’t start dreaming of them myself.