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Rule 5 Sunday: Pipe Dreams

— compiled by Wombat-socho Background music for this week’s edition of Rule 5 Sunday is provided by “Pipe Dreams”, a weekly radio show hosted by Michael Barone and devoted to the music of the pipe organ. This week’s appetizer is provided by Canadian organist Maxine Thevenot, who I found after sorting through quite a few […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Showgirls and Other Attractions

— compiled by Wombat-socho This week I’m trying to get back into the blogging saddle, so to speak; you might even see the return of Live at Five tomorrow! For now, insert the usual disclaimer here about being discreet in your clicking, ogle the intro pic of traditional Vegas show girls, and on with the […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Welcome To Las Vegas

— compiled by Wombat-socho Well, after a week of late-night driving, a busted water pump, and way too many hamburgers, I have arrived in my new home of Las Vegas, where I’m holed up at the Plaza Hotel & Casino until I can sign a lease on something more permanent. Once that happens and all […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Hot Times In Houston

— compiled by Wombat-socho It’s hot and wet here in Baytown, but not in a good way, so the best thing to do is stay inside in the air conditioning, work on beating back the ever-rising wave of spam, and in the fullness of time, whip out our weekly tribute to the beauty of the […]

Rule 5 Sunday: The Road To Sin City

— compiled by Wombat-socho So, after getting through the last days of packing, shipping a truckload of stuff to Vegas, and stuffing the remainder of my worldly goods in the back of the Jeep, I’m chilling at Balticon, an SF convention slowly evolving into a geek culture con, and killing a little time between programming […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Last Dance In Washington

— compiled by Wombat-socho This will be the last Rule 5 Sunday post from the burrow in Springfield, Virginia; next Sunday I’ll be in Baltimore for Balticon and a farewell party with friends, and the Sunday after that, I should be in Las Vegas, God willing. So it seems only appropriate that this week’s appetizer […]

Rule 5 Sunday: Station To Station

— compiled by Wombat-socho Welcome to another addition of Rule 5 Sunday, a staple of this blog since the days when Our Founder received the vision that became known as The Underpants Gnome Theory of Blogging, and its Five Rules, perhaps the most important of which is Rule Five, which requires the adoration of attractive […]

Rule 5 Monday: Lt. Commander Rand, RIP

— compiled by Wombat-socho The weekend got eaten by Game of Thrones, visiting with friends, and suchlike distractions, but here we are, finally, with another week of links celebrating attractive women. This week we note the passing of Grace Lee Whitney, who played the rather toothsome Yeoman Janice Rand on the original Star Trek series*, […]

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