A Seasonal Haiku

Palimpsest’s Rules for Your Daily Survival 1. The Two Flush Rule: When in a public bathroom, and the first flush turns out to be incomplete, flush again. Your adoring public does not adore all you produce. (This is a good idea in your private bathroom as well, but since that doesn’t offend me, I’ll leave…

Long time, no substantive update. That didn’t used to be the case. When The Salamander was relatively anonymous, making an entry was like poking a note into a bottle and chucking it into the Atlantic. Chances were that the note wasn’t going to be read, and if it was it would be by an anonymous…

… some guy who did a Google search on turtle tanks. sigh

It’s been yet another while since I’ve written. I have a theory that I shall now make public: at the heart of every Christmas tree, menorah and Festiva pole lies a minute black hole that sucks all available time into it. It’s the only possible explanation. The alternate reunion (dubbed “Plan B”) was a success….

There’s a challenge making the rounds at DD now to take the book nearest to you right now, as you are reading this, open it to page 23, and post the fifth line in your diary. Here’s mine. From Lao Tzu Tao te Ching, A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way…

I’m still playing catch-up at work. A truism: One never truly gets vacation. One simply gets the opportunity to put off a week’s worth of work so that they can do two weeks’ worth of work the next week. While I was away, the morning glory vines executed a successful junta, and have now completely…