Stonekettle Station

You’re going to have to do without me for the next couple of days. The family and I are headed south to the Kenai today. If you need me,...

Update at the end of the post//Jim   Ever read Larry Niven’s Ringworld ? The novel opens with an apology. The alien Nessus takes o...

I’ll make this brief. I would have commented on this earlier, but I’ve been out of pocket most of this afternoon taking advantage of the l...

  I was going to vote for The Devinyls I touch Myself . What? The I Touch Myself video isn’t scifi? Dude. I mean, damn! w hat the...

For some reason, I’ve had The Zombies playing in my brain for the last couple of days. It started out with the guitar riff from Time of t...

Did you see the Palin Interview last night on the O’Reilly Factor ? No? Well, then you really missed something special.  It was like w...

  [Update] Boing Boing has been putting up transcripts of the chat logs between Manning and Lamo. Boing Boing’s general gist is that ...

…so here, have a picture of my cat instead of a post: Actually, I spent part of the day fooling with a new Nikon lens.  And I’m pretty ...

I’ve been rushing to meet some project deadlines. I lost an entire day yesterday, what with the water related crisis and sleep deprivation...

Ugh! Wake up, the floor is wet . [to be continued] _________________________________________ [update] Perhaps tomorrow I'll tell y...

Is it national asshole day? Or is it something local? Seriously, is there something in the water? Did Palin unleash her hordes of mindle...

Well, Saturday Night, actually. Remember these guys? It’s Rollermania! Don’t even act like you’re not singing along. Because ...

Note the new banner. (If the new banner looks like the old banner, you’ll need to do a refresh and/or maybe clear your cache) The pic...

Memorial Day got me thinking. Actually, a number of articles and blog posts and chain emails I’ve read recently and a number of comments I...

We spent this Memorial Day weekend enjoying Alaska. And we’re off to do some more of that today. If you get a moment, raise the flag or ...

You kids have fun

…or how I spent my day off.      Left: Quilted maple sushi plate.   Right:quilted maple rice bowl.  The chopsticks are rosewood...

No really. Twenty years ago you sure didn’t see anything like this. Oh no. You know when they come for you it’ll be through your s...

From the Anchorage Daily News: Twenty-Six Chickens Found Beheaded in North Pole Coop Twenty-six chickens were mysteriously beheaded...