Family in Town. Lee’s brother Mike, his SO Connie, and her two daughters, Hannah (7) and Alexis (4) are in town visiting us. Today, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, and possibly the Shrine to the Sun. We’ll hand-feed the giraffes, see if the wallabies have settled down enough to want to be petted, goggle at the […]

Eragon Forwarder.* Lee’s brother Dale pointed out the movie adaptation of Eragon, by Christopher Paolini, is coming out in 2007. Click here for the in-production-type trailer. Dunno. Looks altogether too full of bombast. It’s being directed by Stefen Fangmeier, who, admittedly, is a great visual effects guy, but who’s never directed a movie on his

Question. What, if anything, would you like to inherit from a distant relative whom you’d never met, but who had heard stories about what you were like as a child and had decided that you would be the only person to truly appreciate this thing? I would like to inherit a house with a library