A friend posted this to Facebook. Which meant, of course, I quoted Milton Waddams thus: Probation was almost over, too . . . 

Meet Dr. Bosca. He's on duty at Washington Hospital in Culver City, California, when Jon from CHiPs is brought in after interacting with...

  [Alarm goes off] Astronomer: [Mutters grumpily, puts on slippers, stumbles through the darkness, mumbles and mutters through endless spira...

I have had, let me say, not the most stellar of weeks. Work presented a constellation of glorious delights, from what appeared to be a simpl...

  From a Facebook conversation a year ago. This is the most anyone has talked about Louis Rukeyser in years.

Allow me a slight flight of fancy. While the elves are the lurking menace in Terry Pratchett's last novel, "The Shepherd's Crow...

I just don't know how to react to this. Are any of my friends corporations? Or the kind of random, uh, idiot who is *paying* Facebook to...

  Astronomers and space journalists, huddle up: We know you're *very* excited about the pictures you've taken of two of Jupiter'...

  " The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! " has been on my to-watch movie list since I learned many moons ago that it ...

A friend shared this link about the general inaccessibility of book sales data to the world outside of publishing, and I got to thinking ab...