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Archive for July, 2009

Video Eugene Fischer | 29 Jul 2009

Time For A Music Video

An awesome one. BIRDY NAM NAM – THE PARACHUTE ENDING from Steve Scott on Vimeo. Thank you Steve Scott, whoever you are.

Amusing Eugene Fischer | 21 Jul 2009

Our New Carrier

…is a pigeon.  Used to smuggle cellphones into a prison in São Paolo.  Link.

YA Eugene Fischer | 20 Jul 2009

Help Me Help A Friend

I am friends with a couple who just had their sixth and seventh children, premature twin boys that they just got to bring home.  Preemies are tough, two of them are tougher, and the five kids they already had, ranging in age from 13 to 2, are a bit of a handful as well.  So [...]

Blog &Books &Fiction Eugene Fischer | 13 Jul 2009

Stuff I’m Doing and Reading: A Miscellany

So I’m paying hosting costs for this site, right?  I bought a domain name and everything.  I should do something with it.  Here’s what I’m doing right now: I’m in a bar, lurking in corners with my laptop and munching tiny hamburgers.  Creepy and delicious!  Even more exciting than what I’m doing right now: things [...]

Health &Television Eugene Fischer | 13 Jul 2009

Dr. House is a Wuss

For the last few days I’ve been playing DVDs of House M.D. as background noise while I work, and just heard the following, from the season 3 episode “Top Secret.” HOUSE: I haven’t peed in three days! WILSON:  You’d be dead. HOUSE: I’m not counting intermittent drips. WILSON: You’d be in agony. HOUSE: I passed [...]

Books Eugene Fischer | 07 Jul 2009

Incoming Review

It has since been given new life under new ownership, but earlier this year it looked for a while like the magazine Realms of Fantasy was going to go under.  I was sad to learn that SF was losing a short fiction market, in this case one that I had never read.  I decided to [...]