Recycled: Baked Insanity

Now and then I go fishing for something that I’ve written and find it out there on the web. I haul it over here to Nerd’s Eye View from it’s old dusty corner on the Internet. This post is from January, 2003. I really did think that I had topped out when I discovered the …


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It’s Tuesday…

…so I’m going to Belgium. Antwerp, to be exact. In the meantime, think about either submitting your audio file or captioning a cow.

Reception: A Caption Contest

Because there’s no cable in the meadow. You’d be so pretty if you’d just get that hair out of your eyes. It’s not THAT bad – the other cows won’t even NOTICE. Now you. [tags]caption contest, horns[/tags]

Fall Miscellanea

I am irrationally fond of llamas. When J asked me what I wanted to do with the afternoon, I said, “Let’s go see the llamas.” It snowed up high. When the sky lifted yesterday afternoon, you could see that all the peaks around us were dusted with white. It’s Fall. You can feel it in …


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Thanks for Nothing, Julie Andrews

Note – July 31, 2008: I recorded this piece in October of 2006 when I was really hating expat life. Currently, we’re in Seattle and while my feelings about expat life haven’t changed all that much, I’m not in that place anymore. Heads up, there’s profanity in the audio, you can’t miss it. I thought …


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Austria, 1923

“Hey, is there a time machine back there or something?” Yes, I was being a smartass, as usual. But the people coming from that side of the alley had nothing modern about them. The hunter with the heavy wood-stocked rifle hanging over his shoulder. The woman in the elaborate headdress and shiny purple dirndl. The …


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