Monthly Archives: January 2004

For some reason this morning I started singing The Three Little Fishies song. I remember some old sitcom had an episode where one character was trying to remember how this song went. Someone told a third person that this person … Continue reading →

After the Pirates production meeting today, several of us were sitting around finishing up some stuff when I thought aloud it’d be cool to get a neat domain name for the group, since http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rlos/ doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue … Continue reading →

I really liked Eb’s new Acura TL. I want one. So I’m selling my Audi A6. Wanna buy it?

Well, it seems that I may have spoken prematurely in the matter of Churchill’s parrot. The BBC report that the staff at Chartwell, Churchill’s country estate, have gone through their photographs and records and found no evidence that he ever … Continue reading →

January 20th is the day before the feast day of St. Agnes. Keats wrote a poem, C. 1819, entitled The Eve of St. Agnes, inspired by the superstition that a girlwould see her future husband in a dream if she … Continue reading →

Ecto is a cool tool for publishing to a blog. Makes things very simple. Am testing it now, and if it delivers (as it looks like it will), I’ll definitely be sending in my shareware fee.

This article in the Mirror says that Churchill’s parrot, a female named Charlie, is still alive after 104 years, and still curses in the inflection that he taught it. Heh.