Blog Eugene Fischer | 07 Sep 2010
This is Hermine, who came to visit Bexar county today. Thank you for not destroying the car I bought yesterday, Hermine, like you did several other people’s cars. And power lines. And houses. First time in 25 years I’ve lived in San Antonio that we’ve gotten a direct hit from a tropical storm.
Amusing &Blog Eugene Fischer | 14 Aug 2010
Clever, Google. Very clever.
Blog &News &Video Eugene Fischer | 10 Aug 2010
Here’s a roundup of some things that are worthy of note. • The very best thing to happen recently is Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, overturning prop 8 and granting homosexuals the right to marry in California. The whole decision can be downloaded here, but there are articles all over the place [...]
Blog &Tech Eugene Fischer | 25 Jul 2010
Driving down the highway yesterday I passed a man riding a sufficiently unusual device that I pulled my car off the road and walked back along the shoulder to investigate. The man turned out to be John MacTaggart, the CEO of Pterosail Trike Systems, and he is in the process of riding one of his company’s [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Jun 2010
My parents recently had the carpet on the second floor of their house replaced. My father’s office is up there, historically a dense and chaotic ecosystem of files and books and four decades of computer electronics. All of this had to be temporarily clearcut for the carpet to be changed, and as my father reconstitutes [...]
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Jan 2010
Rabbit Hole Day 2010 has nearly been and gone without my doing anything to recognize it. Too many distractions this year. But this seems a fine time to collect in one place the Twitter and Facebook messages I churned out a year ago today. MICROBLOGGING RABBIT HOLE DAY 2009 Jan. 26, 11:42 pm: Oh hell. [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Dec 2009
Days 32 through 34 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering a portion of her travels through Normandy. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.) Paris to Rouen Sat. July 25 [1936] At 9:30 this morning we said our farewells to Kay & Charlotte & [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Nov 2009
For months now this ad has been reliably showing up on my Facebook profile. Who is that supposed to be a cartoon of? It looks to me vaguely like Edgar Allen Poe.
Blog &Writing Eugene Fischer | 27 Nov 2009
There is an interesting article on The Language Log about a particular type of misnegation that, until it was presented to me in a context that said, “this is wrong,” I was unable to see the problem with. It has to do with phrases of the type No NOUN is too ADJECTIVE to VERB. For [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 08 Nov 2009
Days 28 through 31 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time spent in Paris. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.) Paris, Tuesday July 21, 1936 We left Brussels this morning at eight for a short train ride to Paris. Our first view of Paris [...]
