A quick post here to share photos of some different creatures who live on (or frequent) our yard. This individual was seen a lot in April and May: Here’s a dove, on the table where we often scatter birdseed: And we sometimes see a flicker pecking at the lawn: More posts to come on other … Read more

Computer software may be able to win on a quiz show, but can it be trusted to identify groceries? Every week I look through the sale items at my local supermarkets.  I do this online, and generally go looking through by category.  This week I noticed interesting placement of some items on one store’s site, … Read more

During the latter half of January and the beginning of February we continued to get a good deal of snow.  Here’s how things looked a week or so ago (just after we’d been out shoveling: Here’s a closer view of the house: The snow piled up on the lower part of the roof makes it … Read more

2 weeks ago I went on a hike in the hills near home.  This was a few days before the big snowstorm that I chronicled in my last post, so while it was snowy, there were only a few inches of it on the ground.  That Sunday was otherwise sunny. I hiked a half-mile down … Read more

A blizzard hit us last night, and so we had a large amount of snow waiting to be shoveled in the morning.  3-5 inches were predicted to fall overnight, but it looked like 8 inches when I got up (before 6am).  It was still coming down quickly, too. Here’s the view of the back deck … Read more

A month ago I made my way to a small, one-day comic convention in New York: the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.  It’s a pretty new con – this was only its second year – but it attracted a great variety of talent. I drove part of the way there, but parked in Connecticut and … Read more

Quick post to mention an encounter I had shortly after Thanksgiving.  I was taking food scraps out to the compost pile late in the evening.  I often see various wildlife prowling around the yard and sometimes in or near the compost.  That night, as I approached the pile, I heard something scrambling through the leaves, … Read more

On the second day of NEWW, I had a bit of time to spend looking over artist tables and deciding whether I wanted to try anything new.  I ended up buying a book from Jonathan Rosenberg, some of whose earlier books I have. I was scheduled to volunteer at 1:00, and I ended up getting … Read more

I spotted this on a bulletin board while at NEWW: I guess that means that webcomics are a Big Fucking Deal! I went to one panel on the first day of the con.  It was about world-building.  Here’s a pic of the panelists: From left to right: Aaron Diaz; Spike; Evan Dahm; Liz Baillie; and … Read more

Earlier this month I had the pleasure to head across the river and attend the second New England Webcomics Weekend.  It may yet become an annual event, but this one was held a bit over a year-and-a-half after the first one. Above is the marquee on the Eastworks building in Easthampton.  The actual building entrance … Read more