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By Erik Rasmussen

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The boys' are back

Their reports, that is. The boys themselves never left, more’s the pity. So the reports are back, though not necessarily monthly. There used to be a rationale for such regular updates on their pooping and so forth, as the pace of change in each (boy, not iteration of poop — though, come to think of [...]

Airborne toxic event

Chili chop

Because you have chosen to live in a country which inexplicably refuses to import Sriracha chili sauce, and because your dependence upon Scoville units shows no signs of abating, and because you are the sort who is not afraid to experiment with a blender, you have created an airborne toxic event in the [...]

Close this

Get off my back

So a friend and colleague writes, is it worth my time to upgrade the bitwrathploob wordpress installation, or has the project come to a close? and I’m all like, really? BITWRATHPLOOB is running Wordpress? Doesn’t he know how open to exploits that is? but whatever. And no. No. No no no [...]

Owly adopter

Sad mouseless lad

Apple shop owner: Hello. What is your name? Can you say ‘hello’?
Adam: [frost]
Apple shop owner: I said ‘hello’. Look, I have a present for you!
Adam: HELLO! [accepts Apple-branded mousepad]
A few minutes later…
Adam: Papa, now I need a MOUSE.

And a COMPUTER.

And I think I am ready for a KEYBOLD.

Still a bit baffled by [...]

'Can it be two words?'

Not actual size, more’s the pity

So it’s another Sandwich Party, is it?

For the first time, I am letting someone else do the sandwich construction for this Sandwich Party. At Sandwich Parties past I painstakingly constructed, or reminisced about, or at least observed the preparation of, sandwiches to which I had some sort of deep [...]

North Pole missive

This may feel like jumping the gun, but Thanksgiving has already come and gone here in Sofia, and with kids the pressure to get one’s ducks in a row is a bit more intense, particularly as expectations escalate. So we resorted to the oldest[1] trick[2] in the book: ask the kids to tell Santa what [...]

Macroblogging ≠ Britney*

An enormous, warm, and somewhat nervous welcome to any visitors to the new site. It has been a long time coming. The heavily Slovenia-specific theme of www.isoglossia.com has been out of date, graphically and geographically, for nearly a year and a half. Dithering over the priorities of updating the theme versus content led to 17 [...]

Happy anniversary

2003: young, hot & single. 2009: 2 out of 3 ain’t bad

Today is our fifth wedding anniversary and, well, it astonishes me, as it does, you know, that I’ve had the fortune to spend five years with the woman pictured at left. In the face of such daunting astonishment and joy I am moved [...]

Hello world!

Well I’ll be damned. It’s working.