"What a deal of cold business…" [Snowy Valentine's Day Repost!]

"What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! In scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in a dark corner."

-from Ben Jonson's Timber, 1640 (p. 5 of the 1892 edition, ed. Schelling).


[reposted from June, 2010]

"If you can't have the [static magnetic] field you love, love the [static magnetic] field you have." - William A. Edelstein

Ever have an MRI? If so, you benefited from many inventions by Bill Edelstein, whose passing, earlier this week, is mourned by many.

"The litigation ... has entered its appellate phase."

An update on Rock Creek Hills Park is available.

Ice-Storm Indoor Dog-Blogging!

Bucky at the top of the stairs. (Click image for full-screen.)