Some time ago I sent an email to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, one of the foremost libraries in the world, requesting permission to examine some of their one-of-a-kind holdings: the unpublished papers of J.R.R. Tolkien. I wanted to access this material not because it would be fun (though it …
Wow. It’s hard to believe it’s really been a month since I posted anything here, but, well, on the other hand, I have been pretty busy. I’m in Colorado at the moment. That begins to point toward the reasons for my quiet. My month of June was greatly discombobulated by …
Another thing (see my recent post) that Google Analytics very neatly displays is the direction and origin of traffic on a website. In my case, around 25% of traffic coming to the site is reveled to be directly aimed at my homepage address with quite a bit of that coming …
That’s the name of the little state park below the Ridgway dam. Less than half an hour from where I sit writing this in Ouray, it’s a terrific stretch of catch-and-release trout fishing. My parents are in town for about a week, so Dad and I went down there today …
Looking at the many pictures I posted of my Anasazi Trek early this month, I noticed that they were deficient in one rather important area: I wasn’t in them. So, courtesy of my parents, here are a few pictures from the trip featuring yours truly (and one bonus shot of …