The Blork Blog

The Monday Morning Photo Blog has moved to its new home at http://www.blork.org/mondaymorning! Bear with me as I tinker endlessly with the look and feel over the next few weeks. Also, I wasn’t able to migrate the comments, but I might do a sort of manual dump of them if I can find the time [...]

I found this on someone’s blog recently (sorry – I can’t remember which one), so I thought I’d give it a whirl.
Generally speaking, I hate this kind of meme; I mean really. . . 150 items? On the other hand, blogs are often narcissistic, and this one’s no different. And that’s part of the fun [...]

My niece, Donna, popped out her first baby on Friday. Lily was born July 21, weighing in at 8 pounds, 14 ounces. Mom and pop and baby are reportedly tired but doing well.
They live in booming Calgary, where Lily missed being that city’s one-millionth citizen by just a few days. Too bad, because she would [...]

Chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain was in Beirut when the bombing started. He and his four-person crew were filming an episode of his Travel Channel show, No Reservations.
I was standing with a Sunni, a Shiite and a Christian when Hezbollah supporters started to fire automatic weapons in the air celebrating the kidnapping of the [...]

Languages evolve, yes, and sometimes they evolve in annoying but understandable ways. But sometimes they evolve in annoying but not-so-understandable ways. My current pet peeve along these lines is the evolution of “try to” (e.g., “I will try to speak correctly”) into “try and” (e.g., “I will try and speak correctly”). It’s one of those [...]

I’m still tweaking this new version of my blog, and one of my goals is to make links a little more visible by putting a faint blue background on them – but I only want it to appear on links in the main text, not the post headings (which are links) nor the blog roll [...]

Actually, it’s not the turkey that’s dangerous, it’s the fryer.
It’s several years since I first heard of deep-fried turkeys, but I’ve always thought of it as a very U.S. thing. There’s something about the bigness of deep frying a turkey that just doesn’t seem very Canadian.
I confess I’ve never tried it – neither cooking nor [...]