The Blork Blog

Shockingly different!

OK, I slipped and bought another book. How could I resist? It’s “Crazy Mixed-up Kids,” an anthology of short fiction edited by William Hodapp about juvenile delinquency and drug culture by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Dylan Thomas.
This is an original 1955 edition from Berkley Books of New York. It came out [...]

I must be losing my edge. I’m number 15 on Google for “fully dressed women.” That’s a long way from the usual “big assed naked women” and “see me naked” searches that usually lead people here.
Whatdoiknow is thinking about buying a TV. Specifically, a Samsung TXN3098WHF. I almost never watch TV, but M and I [...]

Here is the reading list I will attempt over the summer. I’m not a fast reader, and I’m even slower in summer when I don’t ride the Metro to work (I ride my bicycle) and there are so many other warm weather distractions. However, I have almost eight shelf-feet of unread books in my living [...]

Last week, Martine pointed to a rather cynical blarticle (something that is somewhere between a blog entry and an article) about the the grand illusion — the futility of desiring to write books. Tai Moses, at Alternet.org, takes a different spin on the topic of writing, despite the bleak prospects.
Fiction completes us, mutilated beings [...]

You can freeze guacamole! Guacamole goes brown quickly because the avocado oxidizes when it comes in contact with air. This is similar to the way a cut apple turns brown after a few minutes. This process does not slow down just because something is in the freezer. Thus, the key to successfully freezing guacamole [...]

Rrrrrrring! Whoops!

Last night M and I were exiting the Paramount Cinema downtown and we saw two guys riding Segways up the sidewalk on rue Metcalf. First Montreal Segway spotting!
I noticed, however, that one of the guys was talking on his cell phone while riding. Since everyone’s talking about whether or not talking on a phone [...]

If you’re using FrameMaker 6 (specifically, the p405 build) and you’re also using Windows XP, you may have noticed a bug: if you open a document with a missing referenced graphic and you choose “Ignore this file,” FrameMaker crashes.
Good news. Adobe has a fix for this very specific problem. You can pick it up [...]