It’s spumoni not spumante

This week, I attended a 3-day conference, visited 4 theme parks, AND the Kennedy Space Center, wrote a paper, and read 3 books.
We bought annual passes to Universal, so there’s at least one more trip to MCO in my future…
The Simpsons ride? It has overtaken Spiderman as the very coolest, very coolest, very coolest [...]

I have some spanish song in my head but I don’t understand the words

Tomorrow I leave for Orlando.  I have 3 days of conference activities (actually, more like 2 1/2, since I generally get “conferenced-out” by the 3rd day.)  My work peeps are going to spend a couple of afternoons at Disney and Epcot, and then Tom joins me on Tuesday and Thursday and/or Friday we’re going to [...]

Election Oh-Eight

At 6:15 the line was already all the way down the block.  Berkeley, who has campaigned at this poll for many, many years had no words for the turnout.  (My suggestion to the election commission after voting several elections in the City of St. Louis — break up the rolls some other way than A-K [...]

Life, Liberty and the Man in the Moon

Friday on the way to a work-related meeting, my car crapped out.  I crossed Forest Park on Euclid, heading toward the parking garage and realized my car no longer was responding to the gas pedal, at least not enough to go faster than 10 mph.  I had a sudden fit of good judgment and aborted [...]