On hiatus

I'll be on hiatus until about July 1 when I finish up with teaching and grading, and then my summer job search.


Until then,
Brian

deus ex machina \DAY-us-eks-MAH-kih-nuh\ noun

You would not believe the wonders housed inside the mad god's treasure room. Shelves lined all the walls and in the far corner a great machine hummed, burbled, and fnorked. I tried to put deus back into the machina, but he wouldn't fit. Descartes and Newton had gained a bit of weight and filled most of the interior. Squashed into a little nook, I saw Laplace, who was complaining that he couldn't find his spectacles, because Newton was so corpulent that he blocked all the light that was rightfully his. "He's a great fat modern eclipse," I heard him say as I shut the lid on the machine and set it for spin cycle.

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.18.2007

rebarbative \rih-BAR-buh-tiv\ adjective

Willie Mac was a rebarbative sonovabitch out of Tuscaloosa. He flunked out of AU ten years back on account of too much whiskey and whippets and a nineteen-year-old girl, name of Sandee, who worked the Quick Stop on MLK Jr. Blvd. He'd been floating around Ohio for the better part a year, when he decided to wreak his vengeance on all things Northern, starting with my car interior. His weapon of choice, a double order of frijoles. Last Thursday, off we went to Black Lick to pick up my squeeze, Wanda, and her cousin, Sammi Lyn; me driving and Willie Mac spewing invective from both ends.

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Apr.02.2007