The Epistles of St. Moz

24 years ago

From 1983 to 1987, there was a band of very nice if somewhat tempermental lads from Manchester known as The…

Onions in the Varnish

24 years ago

It's a clever turn of phrase, really. I first saw it in use here. The chemist-turned-Holocaust-memoir-writer Primo Levi has a…

Happy Birthday, George!

24 years ago

And in honour of your birthday, I present you with this lovely photo of when I last came down to…

Start Spreading the News…

24 years ago

I'm leaving today... ...for New York City for a mini-vacation and to celebrate my friend George's 32nd birthday. I know…

Dog and Pony

24 years ago

The app I've been working on I've spent the past couple of weeks hammering out a prototype of an news-gathering…

Quote of the Day

24 years ago

When my alarm clock goes off each morning, I look at it like it's some tool of the inquisition whose…

Pants

24 years ago

My ex used to say that I had this way of saying the word pants that sounded really dirty. Pants…

Other Con Artist Stories

24 years ago

My "con man" stories from the past couple of posts have stirred up something. Friends and family have been telling…

The Con Man from Another World!

24 years ago

(or, Why You Should Trust Your Children to a VB Programmer and not a Lisp Programmer) To understand this, you'll…

Breach of Security

24 years ago

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. -- Chief Engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott from Star…